Focus on wellbeing of barristers

22/05/2015

Wellbeing

Australasian Lawyer is reporting on the results of a survey by the Bar Council of England and Wales, which found that one in eight barristers are emotionally exhausted and more than half don’t sleep properly. In response to the findings, the president of the New South Wales Bar Association, Jane Needham SC, said that a number of measures have been adopted in order to improve the wellbeing of the state’s barristers, such as BarCare and the Health and Wellbeing Committee. Learn more here.