NLJ this week: Proactive wellbeing not ‘crisis management’ at the Bar

18 April 2025

Issue: 8113 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Health , Career focus , Mental health

Barbara Mills KC, chair of the Bar Council, sets out her plans to pilot reflective practice—an approach used successfully by doctors, social workers and other stress-ridden professionals—at the Bar, in this week’s NLJ.

Pilots will run between May and November for three cohorts: family and criminal; commercial and chancery; and employed barristers. Improving mental health and wellbeing is one of Mills’ priorities for this year.

Mills explains the reasons she values a proactive approach rather than ‘crisis management’, and how reflective practice, where barristers have regular, confidential check-ins with a professional, works to benefit practitioners.

Issue: 8113 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Health , Career focus , Mental health

Being well at the Bar

NLJ this week: Proactive wellbeing not ‘crisis management’ at the Bar

Issue: 8113 / Categories: , Legal News , Profession , Health , Career focus , Mental health

Being well at the Bar

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