It’s not every day that the Today programme – that bastion of the chattering classes – devotes time to the regulation of lawyers, a subject that struggles to interest the legal profession let alone a general audience.
That the celebrated BBC radio programme, on 17 July, turned its attention to criticism aimed at the Bar Standards Board (BSB) – a small organisation policing a small branch of the legal profession that rarely even directly advises the public – speaks to the simmering resentment felt by many barristers towards their regulator (and the enduring media clout of the Bar).
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