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Raising standards

31 July 2015
Issue: 7663 / Categories: Features , Training & education , Profession
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The Bar Standards Board considers what could be the most sweeping reforms to barristers’ training in a generation

Are you a law student? A newly-qualified barrister? One who qualified some time ago? Do you think your training prepared you well for being a practising barrister? Or could there have been a better way? The Bar Standards Board (BSB) wants to hear from you by 30 October. In the BSB’s new consultation, The Future of Training for the Bar: Academic, Vocational and Professional Stages of Training, the floor is open for all to express their views on how to deliver training to the next generation of barristers.

Earlier consultation

Earlier in the year, the BSB held a consultation on the professional statement, which outlines what a newly authorised barrister should be able to do from “day one”, when they are issued a full practising certificate. This was the first step to potentially unlocking more flexible routes to the Bar and is the pivotal point of reference to a more outcomes-focussed approach to barrister qualifications.

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