Bar leader says complaints handling was ‘inexcusable’

Chair of the bar ‘deeply concerned’ by treatment of leading KC

The chair of the Bar Council said this afternoon that the handling of a complaint against Dinah Rose KC by the Bar Standards Board was “unacceptable and inexcusable”.

Mark Fenhalls KC, who leads the body that represents barristers in England and Wales, said that he and his colleagues were deeply concerned by what had happened.

Mark Fenhalls KC

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