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Information Security
| Purpose: | To guide all barristers on good practice relating to information security |
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| Scope of application: | All practising barristers |
| Issued by: | The Information Technology Panel |
| Last reviewed: | 01/05/2024 |
| 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. |
rC15.5 of the BSB Handbook states:
“… you must protect the confidentiaility of each client’s affairs, except for such disclosures as are required or permitted by law or to which your client gives informed consent”.
Download: Information Security:
Download ( PDF )This document has been prepared by the Bar Council to assist barristers on matters of information security. It is not “guidance” for the purposes of the BSB Handbook I6.4, and neither the BSB nor bodies regulating information security 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 refer to the professional practice and ethics section of the Bar Council’s website here.