A tool to help law firms assess the cybersecurity arrangements of the chambers whose barristers they instruct has been launched by the Bar Council and Law Society
It takes the form of a questionnaire with 26 questions, shorter and more tailored than other non-standardised forms. The Law Society and Bar Council recommend that chambers work with their IT suppliers and maintain an up-to-date copy of their responses to make available to instructing solicitors, and that they should aim to revise these every six months.
Law Society president I Stephanie Boyce said: ‘Because the Law Society has developed this questionnaire in partnership with the Bar Council, solicitors can be confident that the chambers they instruct should feel comfortable completing it.’
Mark Fenhalls QC, chair of the Bar Council, said: ‘This valuable new tool will help reassure clients that data is kept as secure as possible.’
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