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New barristers' conduct rule

Wed Jan 23 2019
Bar standards

The Legal Services Council (LSC) has published the Legal Profession Uniform Conduct (Barristers) Amendment (Refusal of Briefs) Rule 2018. The new rule comprises r 101A of the Legal Profession Uniform Conduct (Barristers) Rules 2015 (r 101A) and replaces r 101(n). It commenced on 18 January 2019. View the new rule here.

The effect of r 101A is to reduce the period of prohibition on a barrister appearing before tribunals of which they were formerly a member, from five years to two; and to limit the retrospectivity of the prohibition.

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