After five years of battling with some of the country’s most sophisticated crooks as head of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Rosalind Wright now has a far more tricky opponent in her sights – the Bar Council.
As chair of the Employed Barristers’ Committee (EBC), Wright has the unenviable task of improving the profile and status of the employed Bar with its private practice brothers and sisters. Although the 3,000-strong employed Bar accounts for more than a quarter of all practising barristers, when it comes to the attitude of the Bar Council, it has yet to shake off its Cinderella image. Employed barristers have had to fight hard to win ‘privileges’ such as higher rights of audience and the right to conduct litigation and there is plenty more to be done.
