Last week the Bar Council issued its subjects with an urgent photo-call to arms as the body goes into inclusivity overdrive. On 27 July, the Council will be holding a photo-shoot with volunteers posing for a range of snaps for use on the body’s website and promotional guff.

The Council is seeking “a wide range of barristers in order to reflect the diversity of the Bar” in a move surely destined to join the Law
Society’s already-legendary ‘What has the LawSoc ever done for me?’ promotional barrage among the great question-begging campaigns of advertising history.