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Barristers and Solicitors

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1994

Barristers reject direct access (The Times, July 12)

 

1995

Solicitors wear down barristers' monopoly (The Times, June 6)

Bar wins right to keep CPS lawyers out of Crown Court (The Times, June 13)

Advocacy rights for lawyers of integrity (The Times, July 4)

Leading solicitors can become QCs (The Times, August 3)

What's special about the Bar? (The Times, October 31)

Barristers' equality code aims to stop race and sex bias (The Times, November 6)

 

1997

• Employed solicitors granted rights of audience in the higher courts (LCD, 26 February)

• Bar defeats bid to end monopoly of jury trials (The Times, February 27)

• Inns of Court scrap medieval dinners rule for Bar students (The Times, March 10)

• First solicitors appointed QCs (The Times, March 27)

• The lawyers' watchdogs (The Times, June 24)

• Lawyers told to deal quickly with complaints (The Times, September 10)

• New name, but bad old habits (The Times, September 16)

• Faster system to tackle solicitors' mistakes (The Times, December 9)

 

1998

• Bar crown court monopoly to end (The Times, January 20)

• Glut of law graduates see career chances fall (The Times, April 15)

• Solicitors in trouble increase, but claims are down (The Times, April 22)

• Record number of women take silk (The Times, May 2)

• Trainee lawyers complain of low pay and long hours (The Times, May 19)

• Meet Mr Complaints (The Times, May 19)

• Judge joins in attack on the £1m-a-year QCs (The Times, June 4)

• Advocating a finer time (The Times, June 23)

• Lord Chancellor publishes consultation paper on the reform of rights of audience (LCD, 25 June)

• Irvine to scrap Bar's court monopoly (The Times, June 26)

• Harsh truths for the class (The Times, June 30)

• Fancy starting on £20,000 or so? (The Times, June 30)

• Complaints on the rise (The Times, July 7)

• The law of reality bites (The Times, August 3)

• Breaking barriers to the Bar (The Times, August 18)

• Bar is in danger of return to elitist era (The Times, October 12)

• A future together (The Times, October 20)

• Will lawyers become reformed characters? (The Times, November 3)

• Delays at solicitors' watchdog worsen (The Times, November 28)

• Crooked lawyers who keep working (The Times, December 15)

 

1999

• Bar could pay taxpayer's bill for new QCs (The Times, February 11)

• Is the legal profession riddled with racism? (The Times, March 16 1999)

• Swifter justice for victims of bad lawyers (The Times, March 25)

• Pearless de Rougemont v Pilbrow, Client need not pay for unqualified advice
  (The Times Law Report, March 25)

• Minorities are appointed QCs (The Times, News in Brief, April 1)

• Silk should not be cut but overseen by the Bar (The Times, April 6)

• Monitoring urged for barristers (The Times, June 7)

• Should clients be able to sue their lawyers? (The Times, June 15)

• Legal complaints reform 'urgent' (The Times, June 19)

• Lawyers told they risk losing self-regulation (The Times, June 30)

• £250,000 separates barristers from QCs (The Times, July 3)

• May the farce be ended (The Times, July 20)

• One year's wait for complaints about solicitors (The Times, July 23)

• Law complaints system to close for one year (The Times, July 23)

• Irvine threatens solicitors with new watchdog (The Times, July 27)

• The Bar is creating second-class citizens (The Times, July 27)

• Solicitors facing complaints fines (The Times, August 4)

• Solicitors' complaints director resigns suddenly (The Times, August 19)

• Solicitors who cannot face another day at work (The Times, August 24)

• High noon or just business as usual? (The Times, September 14)

• Women in the legal world still earn less (The Times, September 15)

• Silk 2000 - Applications for appointment as Queen's Counsel (Lord Chancellor's Department, 16 September)

• Harassment in law firms 'rife' (The Times, September 17)

• Bias still exists (The Times, September 21)

• Minister visits solicitor complaints body (Lord Chancellor's Department, 23 September)

• Minimum pay for lawyers (The Times, September 30)

• How the Bar has set about changing its image (The Times, October 5)

• Barristers back QC reform (The Times, Legal briefs, October 11)

• Irvine warns of rich elite (The Times, October 11)

• Young lawyers to get on-the-job training (The Times, October 25)

• Law Society chief plans to take over the Bar (The Times, October 30)

• Barristers attack 'Mickey Mouse' plans for united profession (Independent, 30 October)

• Lord Chancellor commissions a review of the Legal Services Ombudsman
  (Lord Chancellor's Department, 15 November)

• Are MDPs the way forward? (The Times, November 30)

• A question of choice (The Times, November 30)

• Excess of demand over supply (The Times, November 30)

• 'My colleagues and I are willing to pay for pupillage' (The Times, November 30)

• Customer care must be a top priority for the legal profession - Government tells lawyers
  (Lord Chancellor's Department, 2 December)

• Lord Chancellor publishes independent review of Queen's Counsel and Judicial Appointment's systems
  (LCD, 3 December 1999)

• Barristers 'cost half as much' as rival solicitors (Independent, 20 December)

• The Bar provides cheapest lawyers (The Times, December 22)

 

2000

• Access to Justice Reforms at head of changes to legal landscape (Lord Chancellor's Department, 18 May)

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• The grim costs of learning the law (The Times, May 23)

• Law firms 'are denying jobs to black graduates' (Independent, 5 June)

• Is it tailor-made for quality? (The Times, June 6)

• Solicitors to join the Bar as merger with barristers moves a step closer (Independent, 12 June)

• Chief judge says lawyers' training scheme is elitist (Independent, 16 June)

• Now there is some room at the Inns (Independent, 20 June)

• Advocating a finer time (The Times, Inns and Outs, June 23)

• Trainee solicitors 'are being bullied' (The Times, June 23)

• Complaints about solicitors soar (The Sunday Times, June 25)

• Solicitors earn £1m for first time (The Times, June 27)

• Irvine cuts defence barristers' charges by 10% (Independent, 5 July)

• Solicitors get 17,000 complaints (The Times, July 12)

• Oxbridge recruits dominate law firms (Independent, 15 July)

• Legal professions should reflect the communities they serve (Lord Chancellor's Department, 17 July)

• Treat the client as king (The Times, July 18)

• A barrister's right to choose (The Times, July 18)

• Why most clients want a one-stop shop (The Times, July 18)

• Lawyers stripped of immunity from prosecution for negligence (Independent, 20 July)

• Barristers lose immunity from being sued (The Times, July 21)

• Arthur Hall v Simons, Advocates lose immunity from suit (The Times Law Reports, July 21)

• Watchdog to check how QCs earn their fees (The Times, July 24)

• Reforms hit legal aid barristers' pay (The Times, July 24)

• Rights of audience proposals clear final hurdle (Lord Chancellor's Department, 25 July)

• Barristers feel under siege (The Times, July 25)

• Law's Faustian bargain (The Times, September 5)

• How to ensure justice for all (The Times, September 5)

• Lord Chancellor announces agenda for change in the provision of legal services (Lord Chancellor's Department, 7 September)

• More solicitors than ever accused of misconduct (Independent, 9 September)

• Laymen 'should assess law complaints' (The Times, September 18)

• Pantomime is turning to folly (The Times, September 26)

• 'Fat cat' or Rumpole - two sides of the Bar (The Times, October 10)

• Labour holds back law students, Cherie told (Independent, 15 October)

• Bar faces critical mass (The Times, October 17)

• 'I want all solicitors to share the buzz of making it happen' (The Times, October 24)

• Crime doesn't pay as much for solicitors (The Times, October 31 2000)

• Barristers find wigs not guilty of all charges (The Times, October 31 2000)

• Lawyers' pay too high, says CBI chief (Independent, 5 November 2000)

• Law firms refuse fair hearing for clients' complaints (Independent, 6 November 2000)

• Lawyers face up to threat from supermarkets (The Times, November 7 2000)

• Law 'still biased towards rich, white and male' (The Times, November 20 2000)

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