The Bar Handbook 2011-12

Published in Association with the Bar Council and the Bar Standards Board, The Bar Handbook is an essential guidance source for all barristers to ensure compliance, understand best practice and maximise profits.

The current landscape for practising barristers is changing rapidly. All barristers, whether self-employed in chambers or employed in firms or companies, need to be aware of all the rules and regulations governing their practice to ensure compliance and maximise profitability. The Bar Handbook is also relevant to solicitors and students training to become barristers.

Why The Bar Handbook 2011 is essential:

The Bar Handbook is a practical guide that brings together, for the first time, details and guidance relating to a barrister’s professional obligations, parameters of work, permitted charging arrangements, ability to get paid, getting redress when not paid, tax and VAT liabilities, insurance, practice planning and good practice advice and relevant statutory and regulatory references, for all barristers be they sole practitioners, employed, publically or privately funded.

Key benefits of The Bar Handbook 2011:

• Invaluable professional conduct guidance – a collective corpus of material that exists nowhere else in such an accessible form
• The Bar handbook 2011 is a single-volume portable guide to all most relevant obligations/conduct advice
• Key regulation and statutory extracts collected together in single point of reference
• Professional Code of Conduct material from originating professional body
• As well as being a ready resource in itself, it provides key signposts to repositories of other specialist expertise for those seeking in-depth coverage of particular issues
• Includes commentary by the authors to aid with interpreting the materials
• The Bar Handbook Aims to answer the most commonly asked questions dealt with by the Representative side of the Bar Council