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Confidentiality and Data Protection Issues with regard to Student Placements
| Purpose: | To address confidentiality and data protection issues arising with regard to student placements |
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| Scope of application: | All practising barristers, but concentrating on the self-employed |
| Issued by: | The Ethics Committee |
| First reviewed: | 01/11/2017 |
| Last reviewed: | 01/03/2024 |
| Status and effect: | Please see the notice at the end of this document. This is not ‘guidance’ for the purposes of BSB Handbook I6.4 |
Student placements form a part of the Bar’s engagement with under 18’s who are considering, or are interested in, a career at the Bar. They perform an important role, not just in enabling those with a possible or actual interest in a career at the Bar to experience practice at first hand, but also as part of the Bar’s efforts to increase equality and diversity within the profession, and to improve the accessibility of a career at the Bar to those from less advantaged groups within society.
Please also see the Guidance on Mini-Pupils.
Download: Note on Confidentiality and Data Protection Issues with regard to Student Placements:
Download ( PDF )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.