BSB considers responses to its Future Bar Training consultation

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has published the responses to its consultation on the future training of barristers.

The Future Bar Training consultation stated that the training of barristers needs to be reassessed at the academic, vocational and pupillage levels in order to ensure that qualifying barristers meet the requirements of the BSB’s Professional Statement. The BSB received 58 responses from training providers, the Bar Council and the Council of the Inns of Court, as well as individual practising barristers and legal academics.

Dr Simon Thornton-Wood, the BSB’s director of education and training, gave an initial outline of the responses. He said: "The consultation responses reveal much that is good about the current system, as well as highlighting important issues that we need to address. The consultation responses largely reflected the themes that we heard in workshops that we ran across the country during 2015. We plan to set out our view on the options for future regulation in the near future. We will then work closely with the Bar and its consumers, the academic community and the Inns, training organisations and others to investigate the practicality of each."

You can read the consultation summary on the BSB’s website.