EXCLUSIVE: A barrister who appeared to support Hamas massacring Jews in a tweet will not face action from his chambers - despite the same firm investigating former barrister Allison Bailey.
A scorned barrister jailed for orchestrating a malicious plot against her ex-lover was kicked out of the legal profession after lying about her qualifications and work experience, MailOnline can reveal.
Yesterday, Anisah Ahmed, 33 was found guilty of mounting a comprehensive revenge campaign against barrister Iqbal Mohammed after she found out he was married.
This included making false rape allegations against him and stabbing herself so that it appeared that he had attacked her.
Mohammed, 38 compared his ordeal to the 1987 thriller Fatal Attraction, explaining he had been unable to watch the film as it was just like what happened to me.
Slight increase in barrister diversity for 2020: report
09-02-2021
02-06-2020
Diversity amongst barristers is increasing but still falls short of fully representing the society it serves, according to the latest Bar Standard Board (BSB) annual diversity report.
The Diversity at the Bar 2020 report from the London-based regulator showed slight improvements on the number of practising minority ethnic and female barristers year-on-year.
The proportion of practising barristers from minority ethnic groups has increased to 14.1%, a gradual increase of 0.5% year-on-year from 2019. This proportion was larger than the estimated 13.3% of minority ethnic groups in the UK’s working-age population.
The majority of this 14.1% figure comprises Asian/Asian British barristers who make up 7.5% of the total, up 0.3% from 2019. The 7.5% figure represents a slightly larger proportion of Asian/Asian British barristers than in the working population (5.6%).
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The Legal Services Board (LSB) has published annual reports on the performance of the eight legal services regulatory bodies.
Each organisation regulates different types of lawyers and carries out its responsibilities in different ways. Nevertheless, they have the same responsibilities under the Legal Services Act 2007 (the Act) and are assessed against the same 27 outcomes across five standards. The standards are: regulatory approach, authorisation, supervision, enforcement, and well-led: governance and leadership.
The performance of most of the regulatory bodies has improved since the last assessment in November 2019. Notably, the Council of Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) and the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) have met all the outcomes required across all standards.