General Council of the Bar

There was some discussion about the possibility of disciplinary proceedings before the General Council of the Bar.

"It could be The General Council of the Bar as sponsored by some fizzy drinks company or other."

He is currently the subject of investigation by the South African General Council of the Bar.

He was a member of the General Council of the Bar from its inception in 1894 and later served as Vice-Chairman.

In retirement he became the first Lay Complaints Commissioner of the General Council of the Bar.

Previously, barristers were governed by the General Council of the Bar and the individual Inns of Court.

Acland sat in the General Council of the Bar and was treasurer of the Barristers' Benevolent Association.

Barristers are regulated by the Bar Standards Board, a division of the General Council of the Bar.

The Government will licence authorizing bodies which may include bodies other than The Law Society and the General Council of the Bar.

The BSB is not legally separate from the General Council of the Bar, but is set up so as to be independent of it.

Barristers in England and Wales have a similar professional body, the General Council of the Bar, commonly known as the Bar Council.

The General Council of the Bar was created in 1894 to deal with breaches of a barrister's professional etiquette, something that had previously been handled by the judiciary.

The report is written by a delegation of representatives from the Law Society, the General Council of the Bar and the Scottish Faculty of Advocates.

In 1997, Owen served as Chairman of the General Council of the Bar, having served as Vice-Chairman the previous year.

He also wrote Conduct and Etiquette at the Bar, which was the standard guide to the decisions of the General Council of the Bar for 25 years.

Memberships include General Council of the Bar of Québec and the committee of the Inspectors of the Bar.

She was a member of the General Council of the Bar and chaired the Professional Standards Committee and the Race Relations Committee.

If the judge had thought that he could not deal with the matter himself it was also of course open to him to report the barrister to the General Council of the Bar.

The ability of barristers to accept such instructions is a recent development; it results from a change in the rules set down by the General Council of the Bar in July 2004.

The APPG is jointly supported by The Law Society and the General Council of the Bar, and is administered by Richard Messingham.

By 1862 he was a Fellow of University College London, a QC, Bencher of Lincoln's Inn and Chairman of the General Council of the Bar.

They are the barrister's own Inn of Court, the Senate of the Inns of Court and the General Council of the Bar, often known simply as the Bar Council.

He served three times as Chairman and Secretary of the Johannesburg Bar Council, and as Secretary of the General Council of the Bar of South Africa.

Ahmad is Chairman of the Bar Association for Local Government & the Public Service (http://www.balgps.org.uk) and a member of the General Council of the Bar for England and Wales.

Beginning in January, 2006, standards for admission to the bar and disciplinary proceedings are administered by the Bar Standards Board (BSB), a regulatory board of the General Council of the Bar.