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1 April 2025
BSB Update on the Claims Management question in this year's Authorisation to Practise (AtP)
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31 March 2025
The Bar Standards Board response to the Legal Services Board Regulatory Performance Assessment
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28 March 2025
The Bar Standards Board publishes its 2025-26 Business Plan
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21 March 2025
Bar Standards Board publishes annual report on diversity of its workforce
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19 March 2025
Barrister Navjot (Jo) Sidhu KC ordered to be disbarred
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10 March 2025
Kathryn Stone OBE to leave the Bar Standards Board in the summer following appointment as HM Inspector of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Authorities
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5 March 2025
Barrister Henry Charles William King (called 2018) ordered to be suspended from practice for three months
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5 March 2025
BSB publishes Regulatory Action Diversity Analysis Report
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21 February 2025
Update on the Bar Standards Board’s work in relation to the Post Office Horizon IT Scandal
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11 February 2025
Barrister Alan Wheetman ordered to be suspended from practice for 24 months
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6 February 2025
Free speech and professional obligation: Striking the balance
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4 February 2025
The Bar Standards Board provides support to chambers with new webpage
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3 February 2025
BSB publishes its Annual Report to the Board on Bar Training and a report on Bar Training statistics
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31 January 2025
BSB publishes its Annual Diversity at the Bar Report
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20 January 2025
Bar Standards Board publishes thematic review of training providers’ admissions arrangements
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15 January 2025
BSB invites initial feedback on strategy development
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13 January 2025
Barrister John McLanachan ordered to be disbarred
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19 December 2024
Pupil barrister Georgie Dibbo ordered to be suspended from practice for eighteen months
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19 December 2024
Three new Board members for the Bar Standards Board
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18 December 2024
Barrister Robert Kearney ordered to be disbarred
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