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GDPR: Guide for Barristers and Chambers
IT Panel's assistance document regarding barristers' and set of chambers' compliance with the GDPR
Update: Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
With the advent of the 2017 Regulations, HM Treasury asked the LSAG to draft a single piece of guidance for their approval, to be applicable to the whole legal sector in the UK.
Update: Absconding Clients
The Bar Council’s Ethical Enquiries Helpline receives regular requests for assistance from barristers who attend court only to find that their lay client has absconded.
Refusing work on the basis of fees
Ethics Committee’s assistance document regarding the application of the Cab Rank Rule to criminal legal aid cases.