February 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
#BarCouncil Morning to all my barrister friends (and especially the Employment Law Bar Association members). It's that time again. Live-posting the Bar Council meeting. New Chair Barbara Mills KC in the house.
February 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#BarCouncil Morning to all my barrister friends (and especially the Employment Law Bar Association members). It's that time again. Live-posting the Bar Council meeting. New Chair Barbara Mills KC in the house.
Grays Inn looking very lovely this evening - all ready for @kirstybrimelow.bsky.social Chair of @thebarcouncil.bsky.social inaugural speech #WomenInLaw #BarCouncil #LegalLeadership
January 12, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Grays Inn looking very lovely this evening - all ready for @kirstybrimelow.bsky.social Chair of @thebarcouncil.bsky.social inaugural speech #WomenInLaw #BarCouncil #LegalLeadership
Merging ICBET and Bar Scholarship Trust. Grants to @freerepunit.bsky.social to continue
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February 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Merging ICBET and Bar Scholarship Trust. Grants to @freerepunit.bsky.social to continue
#BarCouncil
#BarCouncil
Good morning from Bristol where we are being hosted by the Western Circuit at 3PB for our #BarCouncil meeting. We’ll be sharing live updates here.
November 16, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Good morning from Bristol where we are being hosted by the Western Circuit at 3PB for our #BarCouncil meeting. We’ll be sharing live updates here.
BMKC: 19k Registered barristers and 75K unregistered ones. Hence the need to consider timing of call. #BarCouncil
February 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
BMKC: 19k Registered barristers and 75K unregistered ones. Hence the need to consider timing of call. #BarCouncil
Chair of the Bar Kirsty Brimelow KC opens the #BarCouncil meeting with "record attendance" online and in person, as Sir Brian Leveson is our guest speaker tonight.
April 14, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Chair of the Bar Kirsty Brimelow KC opens the #BarCouncil meeting with "record attendance" online and in person, as Sir Brian Leveson is our guest speaker tonight.
Suggestions also for extension of sentencing powers in the lower courts. #BarCouncil 12K cases waiting for referral to the CC for sentence. 😳
February 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Suggestions also for extension of sentencing powers in the lower courts. #BarCouncil 12K cases waiting for referral to the CC for sentence. 😳
Parliamentary Justice Reception with my Chair of Law Reform Committee hat on this evening. Beautiful buildings that never fail to impress me and the view from the terrace is always lovely especially on a sunny summer evening. #parliament #barcouncil
June 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Parliamentary Justice Reception with my Chair of Law Reform Committee hat on this evening. Beautiful buildings that never fail to impress me and the view from the terrace is always lovely especially on a sunny summer evening. #parliament #barcouncil
Good morning from a drizzly London for our first #BarCouncil meeting of 2026. Chair of the Bar @kirstybrimelow.bsky.social welcomes everyone to the meeting. We’ll be sharing highlights and key points in this 🧵
February 7, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Good morning from a drizzly London for our first #BarCouncil meeting of 2026. Chair of the Bar @kirstybrimelow.bsky.social welcomes everyone to the meeting. We’ll be sharing highlights and key points in this 🧵
A glorious day for our summer #BarCouncil meeting kindly hosted at @lincolnsinn.bsky.social Ashworth Centre ahead of our annual summer reception to thank our hundreds of volunteers and staff. Follow along for updates from the meeting…
June 29, 2026 at 3:54 PM
A glorious day for our summer #BarCouncil meeting kindly hosted at @lincolnsinn.bsky.social Ashworth Centre ahead of our annual summer reception to thank our hundreds of volunteers and staff. Follow along for updates from the meeting…
Sara George (Employed Bar): Not a single employed barrister got silk. Not one of the 10 black candidates even got an interview #barcouncil. Building evidence in the hope of putting forward proposals.
BMKC: I intend to promote "One Bar".
BMKC: I intend to promote "One Bar".
February 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Sara George (Employed Bar): Not a single employed barrister got silk. Not one of the 10 black candidates even got an interview #barcouncil. Building evidence in the hope of putting forward proposals.
BMKC: I intend to promote "One Bar".
BMKC: I intend to promote "One Bar".
Good morning from the September #BarCouncil meeting chaired in the room by our Vice Chair Heidi Stonecliffe KC with our Chair @kirstybrimelow.bsky.social joining us from Delhi to deliver her statement. Follow along for updates from today's meeting and AGM...
September 12, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Good morning from the September #BarCouncil meeting chaired in the room by our Vice Chair Heidi Stonecliffe KC with our Chair @kirstybrimelow.bsky.social joining us from Delhi to deliver her statement. Follow along for updates from today's meeting and AGM...
The Chair notes and praises the enormous amount of pro bono work that goes on through @weareadvocate.bsky.social and @freerepunit.bsky.social and the money raised through this year's London Legal Walk. The Bar v Bench race will continue next year. 🏃 #BarCouncil
November 16, 2024 at 11:22 AM
The Chair notes and praises the enormous amount of pro bono work that goes on through @weareadvocate.bsky.social and @freerepunit.bsky.social and the money raised through this year's London Legal Walk. The Bar v Bench race will continue next year. 🏃 #BarCouncil
We are encouraged to attend in person. . Congrats to the new silks. No black applicants succeeded this year. Women and Employed barristers also under-represented. BC will look into it #BarCouncil
February 8, 2025 at 10:35 AM
We are encouraged to attend in person. . Congrats to the new silks. No black applicants succeeded this year. Women and Employed barristers also under-represented. BC will look into it #BarCouncil
David Abbott updates #BarCouncil on the work of @freerepunit.bsky.social which exists to help train aspiring lawyers and alievate poverty. He thanks the Bar Council for all its support for the charity. The Chair @kirstybrimelow.bsky.social thanks FRU for their important work www.thefru.org.uk
FRU | Free Representation Unit
www.thefru.org.uk
June 29, 2026 at 5:04 PM
David Abbott updates #BarCouncil on the work of @freerepunit.bsky.social which exists to help train aspiring lawyers and alievate poverty. He thanks the Bar Council for all its support for the charity. The Chair @kirstybrimelow.bsky.social thanks FRU for their important work www.thefru.org.uk
اگر چیف جسٹس یحییٰ آفریدی تقریب میں شریک ہوئے تو آئی ایل ایف شرکت نہیں کرے گی، قاضی انور
مزید پڑھیے: www.aaj.tv/news/30466038/
#AajNews #YahyaAfridi #QaziAnwar #AudioLeak #BarCouncil #Judiciary #ILF #PakistanLaw #JudicialPolitics
مزید پڑھیے: www.aaj.tv/news/30466038/
#AajNews #YahyaAfridi #QaziAnwar #AudioLeak #BarCouncil #Judiciary #ILF #PakistanLaw #JudicialPolitics
June 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
اگر چیف جسٹس یحییٰ آفریدی تقریب میں شریک ہوئے تو آئی ایل ایف شرکت نہیں کرے گی، قاضی انور
مزید پڑھیے: www.aaj.tv/news/30466038/
#AajNews #YahyaAfridi #QaziAnwar #AudioLeak #BarCouncil #Judiciary #ILF #PakistanLaw #JudicialPolitics
مزید پڑھیے: www.aaj.tv/news/30466038/
#AajNews #YahyaAfridi #QaziAnwar #AudioLeak #BarCouncil #Judiciary #ILF #PakistanLaw #JudicialPolitics
Update to #BarCouncil by @brummybar.bsky.social who led the our working groups on Gauke sentencing review & Leveson criminal justice review. We've not supported proposal for intermediate courts - on principle & practical grounds. Read our release & submission: www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/jur...
Juryless trials ‘not the answer’ to court crisis, barristers warn
The Bar Council has objected to the introduction of intermediate courts and made alternative recommendations, including a new model for diversion, in its submission to the Leveson review of criminal j...
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February 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Update to #BarCouncil by @brummybar.bsky.social who led the our working groups on Gauke sentencing review & Leveson criminal justice review. We've not supported proposal for intermediate courts - on principle & practical grounds. Read our release & submission: www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/jur...
Barbara Mills KC, Chair of the Bar Council, welcomes new members to the first #BarCouncil meeting of 2025. She congratulates the 105 new silks announced in January, esp the Bar Council & Bar Council committee members. See our press release from the announcement: www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/bar...
February 8, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Barbara Mills KC, Chair of the Bar Council, welcomes new members to the first #BarCouncil meeting of 2025. She congratulates the 105 new silks announced in January, esp the Bar Council & Bar Council committee members. See our press release from the announcement: www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/bar...
KBKC flags the #BarCouncil focus this year includes criminal courts, legal aid, children in the justice system, VAWG, commercial work and arbitration, AI and tech, international work, protection of lawyers, regulation and costs, earning gaps, bullying, social mobility and wellbeing.
April 14, 2026 at 4:08 PM
KBKC flags the #BarCouncil focus this year includes criminal courts, legal aid, children in the justice system, VAWG, commercial work and arbitration, AI and tech, international work, protection of lawyers, regulation and costs, earning gaps, bullying, social mobility and wellbeing.
That's it for tonight at #BarCouncil and the next meeting is Monday 29 June.
April 14, 2026 at 5:58 PM
That's it for tonight at #BarCouncil and the next meeting is Monday 29 June.
#BarCouncil too many idle Courts. Make better use of digital courts. Delays build as a result of short appointments being put into list and taking up a physical court room.
Short term measure: greater credit for guilty pleas as current absence of incentive to plead.
Short term measure: greater credit for guilty pleas as current absence of incentive to plead.
February 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
#BarCouncil too many idle Courts. Make better use of digital courts. Delays build as a result of short appointments being put into list and taking up a physical court room.
Short term measure: greater credit for guilty pleas as current absence of incentive to plead.
Short term measure: greater credit for guilty pleas as current absence of incentive to plead.
Chair of @barstandardsboard.bsky.social Kathryn Stone updates #BarCouncil on BSB activities, inc work on a reform programme to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
February 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Chair of @barstandardsboard.bsky.social Kathryn Stone updates #BarCouncil on BSB activities, inc work on a reform programme to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
KBKC @kirstybrimelow.bsky.social visited Brussels recently. A political declaration on the ECHR is due in May through the Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH). The Chair is also visiting India in February to promote the Bar of E&W. #BarCouncil
February 7, 2026 at 10:22 AM
KBKC @kirstybrimelow.bsky.social visited Brussels recently. A political declaration on the ECHR is due in May through the Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH). The Chair is also visiting India in February to promote the Bar of E&W. #BarCouncil
In her Chair's update, KBKC @kirstybrimelow.bsky.social highlights the busy work at the start of the year meeting government ministers & parliamentarians from all parties to discuss priorities inc juries, age of criminal resp, violence against women, legal aid, intl work & more #BarCouncil
February 7, 2026 at 10:11 AM
In her Chair's update, KBKC @kirstybrimelow.bsky.social highlights the busy work at the start of the year meeting government ministers & parliamentarians from all parties to discuss priorities inc juries, age of criminal resp, violence against women, legal aid, intl work & more #BarCouncil