NIPC Law

I have just returned from the first two sessions of the Bar Council's Access to the Bar Day  at Inner Temple.  The first was on public access and the second on licensed access. I wanted to attend the last session which was " targeted at members of the Bar and the Judiciary" (and the only one to carry CPD points) but it began nearly 4 hours after the end of the previous session. It was bad enough hanging around the conference room that Inner Temple rather grandiosely call "the Parliament Chamber" for more than an hour between the public access and licensed access sessions.  I found those gaps very annoying.   Having set off at an unearthly hour to make the 10:00 session I did not relish a 4 hour drive from Luton through the night after the end of the last session.   And I have work to do just like every other barrister. I am sure that the Bar Council would have attracted a much bigger audience had it staged the second session immediately after the first, and the...

My professional body is running a full day event a t the  Inner Temple   in the Smoke known a s A ccess to the Bar Da y (” “A2B" ) on 27 Nov 2008 to provide up-to-date information about instructing the Bar directly. T his event is open to everyone. If you are an inventor, designer, angel, musician, business owner or any other kind of creative, enterprising or innovative individual who is fed up with paying good money for mediocre legal services this event is for you.   Speakers include: Biddie Prentice MP ( Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice) Paul Darling QC a construction silk with a good sense of humour who trained with me to become a mediator many years ago Tim Dutton QC   head honcho of the Bar for a few more weeks Prof Flood of Westminster Uni who is doing some research on public access  Marc Beaumont who runs the Public Access Bar Association and a whole load of other folk including me.   Don't be put off by the twee abbreviation.   Th...