Yesterday’s article by Alex Aldridge on guardian.co.uk – Why barristers balk at the ‘box-ticking’ of continuing professional development – has sparked a furious (well, furious-ish) debate in the comments section and Twitter over whether legal blogging and tweeting should be included in barristers’ compulsory Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours.
My view is that legal blogging, and possibly even legal tweeting, should be included in CPD, and currently the former almost certainly is. But this may change soon if the Bar Standards Board’s (BSB) proposals are accepted, cutting blogging out of CPD completely. This is a bad idea, for reasons I will explain.
