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Dyslexia: Supporting Colleagues, Pupils and Students

Purpose: An overview of dyslexia and how it affects individuals; information for any dyslexic member of the Bar; guidance on what pupil supervisors and chambers can do to support dyslexic individuals; overview of legal and regulatory requirements which barristers and chambers must comply with (not legal advice)
Scope of application: All barristers and chambers
Issued by: The Equality, Diversity and Social Mobility Committee
First reviewed: 01/02/2017
Last reviewed: 01/02/2017
Status and effect: Please see the notice at end of this document. This is not "guidance" for the purposes of the BSB Handbook I6.4.

This document:

  • Provides an overview of dyslexia and how it affects individuals;
  • provides information to barristers with dyslexia (including pupils), pupil
  • supervisors, chambers and other members of the Bar;
  • explains what pupil supervisors and chambers can do to support individuals with dyslexia to achieve their potential; and
  • gives an overview of legal and regulatory requirements which individual barristers, and chambers, must comply with (although it does not provide legal advice or guidance)

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Important Notice

This document has been prepared by the Bar Council to assist barristers on matters of professional conduct and ethics. It is not “guidance” for the purposes of the BSB Handbook I6.4, and neither the BSB nor a disciplinary tribunal nor the Legal Ombudsman is bound by any views or advice expressed in it. It does not comprise – and cannot be relied on as giving – legal advice. It has been prepared in good faith, but neither the Bar Council nor any of the individuals responsible for or involved in its preparation accept any responsibility or liability for anything done in reliance on it. For fuller information as to the status and effect of this document, please see here.

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