The Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, published Changes to Civil Legal Aid: Practical Guidance for the Bar to coincide with the implementation of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 and the fundamental changes to the operation of civil legal aid it introduced. This eBook edition of the guidance has been released to help maximise its accessibility and usefulness. The guidance will be regularly updated to reflect ongoing developments in civil legal aid.
The PDF version of the guidance is available on the Bar Council’s website (www.barcouncil.org.uk). For more information contact Remuneration@BarCouncil.org.uk
The Bar Council is the governing body and the Approved Regulator for all barristers in England and Wales. It represents and, through the independent Bar Standards Board (BSB), regulates over 15,000 barristers in self‐employed and employed practice. Its principal objectives are to ensure access to justice on terms that are fair to the public and practitioners; to represent the Bar as a modern and forward‐looking profession which seeks to maintain and improve the quality and standard of high quality specialist advocacy and advisory services to all clients, based upon the highest standards of ethics, equality and diversity; and to work for the efficient and cost‐effective administration of justice.