The Bar Council’s new report ‘Barristers’ Working Lives 2017: Barristers’ attitudes towards their working lives, released today, reveals that barristers across England and Wales are struggling with a number of factors affecting their overall working lives, such as workload, stress, and work-life balance.

Home Office ministers have been accused of a “masterclass in incompetence” over a botched attempt to reform the criminal records checking scheme.   

A senior civil servant blamed for Amber Rudd’s disastrous select committee appearance that eventually lead to her resignation has been demoted.

Research has shown that since the removal of the minimum trainee salary, trainee numbers have increased and they are more positive about their salaries, even though average trainee salaries have dropped.

Labour has attacked Theresa May over a pledge to bring forward an “LGBT action plan" this summer - branding it "empty PR".

David Gauke will offer greater autonomy to prisons over what skills they teach in an effort to get more former inmates back into work upon release.

MEPs and stakeholders from the animal health industry gathered at the European Parliament to address key issues.

Calls to tackle harassment in the barristers’ profession have been strongly backed by the Bar Council, the representative body for barristers in England & Wales, ahead of a debate about the issue in London tonight (Wednesday 23 May 2018).

Richard Atkins QC has been elected as Chair of the Bar for 2019. Amanda Pinto QC and Grant Warnsby have been elected as Vice Chair of the Bar and Treasurer of the Bar respectively.

Labour will abolish the House of Lords if it wins the next general election, a spokesman for Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed.

Energy suppliers provide customers with an essential service and have a duty of care towards all of their customers. No two customers are the same and some need more support than others, support that may not be provided through standard customer service practices.

Sajid Javid will today promise frontline police officers the "tools and back-up they need", in a bid to cool hostilities between the Government and force chiefs.

Leading Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has hit out at the Government’s controversial 100,000 annual migration target.

Richard Bennett from the College of Policing, said: “Public safety is crucial in officers’ decision making and in some circumstances it is appropriate to pursue suspects on mopeds. 

The Conservatives are too "joyless" and need to be more optimistic to win over sceptical voters, according to Ruth Davidson.

Dods People draws together a list of the last week's appointments in Westminster politics, all the devolved administrations and the public affairs sector.

MPs are to demand urgent answers from the Home Office after it emerged that a Commonwealth citizen caught up in the collapse of outsourcing giant Carillion now faces a “Kafka-esque” battle to stay in the country - despite his company wanting him to stay on.

Labour MP David Lammy has said that he is ‘appalled’ by the arrest of one of his constituents for a minor crime committed twenty years ago.

A former Labour general secretary seen as a hate figure by many on the left wing of the party has been given a peerage by Jeremy Corbyn.

The Bar Council has issued a response to the Bar Standards Board’s announcement yesterday of a new plan to tackle the unfair treatment of female barristers, and has highlighted the role that the Bar Council will need to play in informing steps taken by the BSB in this area.

Yesterday’s report from the Justice Select Committee highlighted concerns over plans to increase the small claims limit to £5,000 which, according to the Bar Council, could undermine access to justice for those injured in accidents.

Mental health is finally being given the significance and attention it rightly deserves. According to new Ipsos MORI research this month, concern about mental health has doubled in the last year alone; almost a third of the public are now concerned about it. And it’s seen as the second most important priority for health care funding.

Parts of the Metropolitan Police are still "institutionally racist" and young black people continue to be victimised by officers, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has said.

Please find below a response to the Hackitt review from the Equality and Human Right Commission