13 October 2023
Barristers have a legal right to see the accounts of their Inns of Court, Professor Michael Zander asserts in this week’s NLJ. He believes this is the legal situation, and would like to hear from anyone at the Bar or the Inns who may know about an 1871 pleadings, Roffey v Wigg, which never came to judgment, as this will help solve the mystery
The current position is that Inns do not publish their accounts and barristers do not have access to their Inns’ accounts unless they are members of the Inn’s Bench Finance Committee.
Digging through some historical documents, however, Prof Zander, NLJ columnist and Emeritus Professor, LSE, has uncovered some interesting information suggesting every member of an Inn is a beneficiary of the trust and therefore entitled to view the accounts.
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