Recalibrating the Bar Council | Where to Start
In my previous essay The Bar Council Maligned, I wrote that section 42(1) of the Legal Profession Act 1976 (LPA), which sets out its purposes, should be the Bar Council’s (BC) Northstar. It is the what, why, and how its resources and efforts are spent. How those competing and contradictory purposes are met is a matter of negotiation within and to some extent without the BC. A unifying narrative about what those provisions in the …