The Bar of England and Wales checks its pulse

20/06/2014

The Bar Council of England and Wales and the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has released the report Barristers' Working Lives, which provides a snapshot of the bar and of aspects of barristers' working lives, with survey questions covering employment status, practice area, working hours, earnings, career aspirations, and views about the profession.

One of the key findings is that 18 per cent of respondents stated that they intended to leave the profession and work elsewhere. Further, some 78 per cent of those barristers in criminal practice, and 77 per cent of those family barristers, who said that they were considering a change in employment status gave legal aid cuts as a reason for doing so.

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