It is difficult to know where to start. In recent weeks we have had 25 million records lost by HM Revenue & Customs, the Northern Rock crisis, ‘Donorgate’, another escaping foot and mouth virus from Purbright, Judge Cottle deciding that the law banning fox-hunting was difficult to implement and the Bar Council reporting the result of a survey to retain horsehair wigs, silk and subfusc robes.
We also had the publication of the Lord Neuberger report on ‘Entry to The Bar’ – a document running to well over 200 pages and 14 appendices. I will have to return to a detailed analysis of this in my next post insofar as it relates to the Bar Vocational Course and the needs of the providers and profession.
