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Tales from the Bar

updated on 25 March 2011

Barristers' clerks are keen to be regulated and, by extension, recognised as a profession in their own right. Reported in The Lawyer, the Institute of Barristers' Clerks (IBC) is in talks with the Bar Standards Board (BSB) about whether the IBC could be integrated into the Bar Council, thus affirming the crucial role that clerks play in the running of chambers.

Chair of the IBC, David Barnes, is reported as saying that "[t]he idea is that senior members of the administration team need to be regulated in some way; it won't be too onerous".

In other Bar news, the BSB has issued a new timetable for adoption of its BPTC aptitude test (see "Aptitude tests prove popular in profession"). In the works since 2009, the pilot scheme currently underway will close in October 2011. The BSB will then assess the results of the pilot, and an aptitude test will be introduced in Autumn 2012, subject to approval by the Legal Services Board. This is a year later than originally proposed, but BSB chair Baroness Ruth Deech has said that they do not want to rush things: "[W]e are happy to extend our timelines to ensure that those relying on the test in the future can have complete faith in it."

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