PABA LAUNCH

The Public Access Bar Association (PABA) held its inaugural meeting at 23 Essex Street, last week. The new body will promote the interests of barristers undertaking public access work and is open to all who have completed the Bar’s Public Access course and registered with the Bar Council and BMIF. Chairman Marc Beaumont says: “Three years into the PA scheme, the Bar still needs to enhance the public profile of PA work. PABA will help barristers to do so by consolidating their professional status, improving their expertise, advising the Bar Council on matters of policy and regulation and generally spreading the message that direct access to the Bar saves the public complication and expense.”