Regulator stands firm

Bar Standards Board seeks to ‘allay misconceptions’ about diversity duty

A new professional duty on barristers to “act in a way that advances equality, diversity and inclusion” would not override the bar’s cab-rank rule, their regulator has assured me in an interview.

Mark Neale, director-general of the Bar Standards Board, was responding to a piece here last Wednesday in which I summarised the concerns of three leading couns…