The Bar Standards Board (BSB) was established in January this year to carry out the regulatory functions of the Bar Council. It is the council’s response to the recommendation in the report by Sir David Clementi that the Bar Council should separate its regulatory functions from its representational ones.
The council has, therefore, delegated its regulatory functions to the BSB, which now has responsibility for the rules governing education and training for the profession, the Code of Conduct, the complaints and disciplinary system and for monitoring the profession.
