Pinto, of 33 Chancery Lane, specialises in high-profile money laundering, corruption, insider dealing and other financial wrongdoing cases.
Addressing an audience in Middle Temple this week, she expressed concern at the growth in paid McKenzie Friends ‘who are unregulated, untrained and yet demand money for their intervention’.
Pinto said she would support moves to increase access to the profession ‘for everyone who is good enough, no matter who you are or where you come from’. Practical steps would include improving the ‘fair distribution of briefs’ and making it ‘normal to have a balanced home and work life at the Bar’. She hit out at flexible operating hours in the courts, which are ‘anathema to those with caring responsibilities’. She also promised to continue to press for English law to be the jurisdiction of choice for businesses around the world.
