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The General Council of the Bar, commonly known as the Bar Council, is the representative body for barristers in England and Wales. Established in 1894, the Bar Council is the "approved regulator" of barristers, but discharges its regulatory function to the independent Bar Standards Board. As the lead representative body for barristers in England and Wales, the Bar Council’s work is devoted to ensuring the Bar’s voice is heard, efficiently and effectively, and with the interests of the Bar (and the public interest) as its focus.




History


The General Council of the Bar was created in 1894 to deal with breaches of a barrister's professional standards, something that had previously been handled by the judiciary. Along with the Inns of Court it formed the Senate of the Inns of Court and the Bar in 1974, a union that was broken up on 1 January 1987 following a report by Lord Rawlinson. The Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 designated the Bar Council as the professional body for barristers, with the role as a regulatory body being split off in 2006 to form the Bar Standards Board.




Committees


As part of the representative remit of the Bar Council, it has a number of representative committees. The most senior of these is the Bar Council, which has 56 members representing organisations such as the Circuits and Specialist Bar Associations, and 60 members elected by the wider Bar.
There are a further fourteen committees, including:

Bar Representation Committee
Education and Training Committee
Employed Barristers Committee
Equality, Diversity, and Social Mobility Committee
Ethics Committee
European Committee
General Management Committee
International Committee
Law Reform Committee
Legal Services Committee
Pro Bono and Social Responsibility Committee
Remuneration Committee




List of chairs



189?–1899: Herbert Cozens-Hardy, QC, MP
1899–1901: Joseph Walton, KC
1901–1907: Marshall Warmington, KC
1907–c. 1913: William English Harrison, KC
1913–18: Paul Ogden Lawrence, KC
1918–20: John Alderson Foote, KC
1920–31: Sir Thomas Hughes, KC
1931–32: E. A. Mitchell-Innes, CBE, KC
1932–46: Sir Herbert Cunliffe, KBE, KC
1946–1947: Sir Charles Doughty, KC
1947–48: G. O. Slade, KC
1948–52: Sir Godfrey Russell Vick, QC
1952–57: The Rt Hon Sir Hartley Shawcross, QC, MP
1957–58: Milner Holland, CBE, QC
1958–60: Gerald Gardiner, QC
1960–62: Geoffrey Lawrence, QC
1962–63: Sir Milner Holland, CBE, QC
1963–66: Joseph Molony, QC
1966–68: The Hon H. A. P. Fisher, QC
1968–70: Desmond Ackner, QC
1970–72: John Arnold, QC
1973–74: James Comyn, QC
1974–75: Patrick Neill
1975–76: Sir Peter Rawlinson
1985–86: Robert Alexander
1987: Peter Scott
1988: Robert Johnson
1989: Desmond Fennell
1990: Peter Cresswell
1991: Anthony Scrivener QC
1992: The Lord Williams of Mostyn
1993: John Rowe
1994: Robert Seabrook
1995: Peter Goldsmith
1996: David Penry-Davey
1997: Robert Owen
1998: Heather Hallett
1999: Daniel Brennan
2000: Jonathan Hirst
2001: Roy Amlot
2002: David Bean
2003: Matthias Kelly
2004: Stephen Irwin
2005: Guy Mansfield
2006: Stephen Hockman
2007: Geoffrey Vos
2008: Timothy Dutton
2009: Desmond Browne
2010: Nicholas Green
2011: Peter Lodder
2012: Michael Todd
2013: Maura McGowan
2014: Nicholas Lavender
2015: Alistair MacDonald (Bar Council
2016: Chantal-Aimée Doerries
2017: Andrew Langdon
2018: Andrew Walker (commercial lawyer)
2019: Richard Atkins QC
2020: Amanda Pinto QC
2021: Derek Sweeting QC
2022: Mark Fenhalls QC
2023: Nick Vineall KC
2024: Sam Townend KC




References






External links


Official website

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