Regulators under fire

Barristers and solicitors attack planned regulatory reforms

The Bar Standards Board has “no authority to impose its own views of social justice on practitioners, as it is now seeking to do,” two leading barristers said yesterday.

Andreas Gledhill KC and Lord Wolfson of Tredegar KC urged the barristers’ leader Sam Townend KC to oppose what they describe as “coercive, illiberal and dangerous” reforms that their re…