Beaumont on Barristers - A Guide to Defending Disciplinary Proceedings (Second Edition)

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is the second edition of the popular</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> 'Beaumont on Barristers - A Guide to Defending Disciplinary Proceedings'</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> which remains the only publication to examine professional disciplinary proceedings against barristers from the perspective of the defence. It is a significant learned but also user-friendly addition to the library of those involved in such proceedings whether as advisers advocates BTAS tribunal members appeal judges or protagonists. This second edition covers significant case-law in the period 2020 to June 2024 and contains a new chapter on investigations within Barristers' Chambers.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Since 2006 the investigation and prosecution of barristers has been undertaken by a body independent of the Bar Council - the Bar Standards Board. By the Legal Services Act 2007 the Bar Council (and so the BSB) gained statutory legitimacy as the regulator of barristers. Since then there has been an unprecedented growth in litigation involving the BSB. The replacement of the Visitors to the Inns of Court with a right of appeal to the High Court by the Crime and Courts Act 2013 has led to a series of important High Court judgments.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The author begins by describing the traumatic and disruptive effect of disciplinary proceedings. He advises on the best approaches to a BSB investigation and examines the concept of 'professional misconduct' and the regulatory scheme. There is a seasoned advocate's deconstruction of disciplinary trial preparation and conduct. The approach to sanctions is given distinct treatment before a unique chapter on 'Barristers and Human Rights' examining the impact of ECHR Articles 6 8 and 10 on barrister discipline including on social media and private life. Other chapters cover costs disposal by consent appeals to the Administrative Court defending complaints made to the Legal Ombudsman and a new chapter on investigations within Chambers. The final chapter now a lesson from history charts the effective collapse of the Bar's system of discipline leading to the creation of the Bar Tribunals and Adjudication Service from 2014.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This highly original book which draws on unreported case law takes an area of law that is misunderstood and stigmatised and elevates it to the level of a respectable legal specialism whilst being both the reader's friend and guide.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>ABOUT THE AUTHOR</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Marc Beaumont has practised at the Bar of England and Wales for 39 years. He specialises in professional disciplinary law defending barristers solicitors surveyors and other professionals against investigations and prosecutions brought by their regulators.</span></p><p><br></p>