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Wellbeing hub

10 November 2017
Issue: 7769 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Barristers are to be offered extra help with tough ethical questions that arise in the course of their work, along with guidance on IT and equality and diversity. The Bar Council has launched a new website, the Ethics & Practice Hub, to help barristers and chambers with these issues. The Hub, at www.barcouncilethics.co.uk, can be used on mobile devices, and will supplement the Bar Council’s Ethical Enquiries Service. Andrew Langdon QC, Chair of the Bar, said the council’s Ethical Enquiries Service had received more than 6,500 calls and emails from barristers in the last year.

Meanwhile, some 30 chambers and Bar organisations received a Bar Council Certificate of Recognition for good wellbeing practice last week. The second round of applications opened this week and closes on 1 February 2018.

Issue: 7769 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Muckle LLP—Rachael Chapman

Muckle LLP—Rachael Chapman

Sports, education and charities practice welcomes senior associate

Ellisons—Carla Jones

Ellisons—Carla Jones

Partner and head of commercial litigation joins in Chelmsford

Freeths—Louise Mahon

Freeths—Louise Mahon

Firm strengthens Glasgow corporate practice with partner hire

NEWS
One in five in-house lawyers suffer ‘high’ or ‘severe’ work-related stress, according to a report by global legal body, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)
The Legal Ombudsman’s (LeO’s) plea for a budget increase has been rejected by the Law Society and accepted only ‘with reluctance’ by conveyancers
Overcrowded prisons, mental health hospitals and immigration centres are failing to meet international and domestic human rights standards, the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) has warned
Two speedier and more streamlined qualification routes have been launched for probate and conveyancing professionals
Workplace stress was a contributing factor in almost one in eight cases before the employment tribunal last year, indicating its endemic grip on the UK workplace
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