Review slams ‘systemic failures’ in bar’s disciplinary system
A damning report on the barristers’ disciplinary regime recommends creating a new tribunals service after uncovering 'systemic failures' in the current system.
The report by the Council of Inns of Court (COIC) disciplinary tribunals and review group makes 82 recommendations for change after finding ‘systemic failures’ in the administration of the tribunal system for disciplining barristers.
It says the failings, which included issues about the eligibility of tribunal members and potential conflicts of interest where panel members were also on Bar Standards Board or Bar Council committees, ‘went back some years’.
The review, led by former bar chair Desmond Browne QC, was set up in November 2011 to carry out a ‘health check’ on the arrangements and ensure there was a proper degree of independence from the BSB, as prosecutor.
In a foreword to the report, Browne said: ‘The need for reform was so great that we very quickly changed from a review group into what was effectively an implementation group so as to ensure that the disciplinary tribunals system could continue to operate.’
He said the task was ‘colossal’ due to the ‘serious inadequacy of the existing record-keeping’. Other underlying weaknesses included an absence of arrangements for accountability, rules being overlooked, and an absence of written procedures for administration.
The review found that the tribunal was administered by a single secretary, who was neither supported nor supervised, from a ‘small one-room office in a set of chambers’.
Among the recommendations is the establishment of a new service, the COIC Tribunals Service, covering both COIC disciplinary tribunals and the Inns Conduct Committee.
It says the new service should draw up a set of publicly available principles under which it should operate, and produce written information for service users, with the names of tribunal and ICC members published online.
It recommends developing documentation and policies ‘typical of a modern adjudicatory body’ including risk policy, equality policy, freedom of information, disclosure policy and information retention and disposal policy as well as the use of an electronic case management system.
The tribunals service should provide an annual report to COIC, performance data, the review says.
But it says the question of online publication of all publishable findings and sentences imposed by the tribunals, and details of forthcoming hearings on the tribunals service, should be further considered, in consultation with the BSB.
A statement from COIC said that in anticipation of the report, it had in March reconstituted the tribunals appointments body under new terms of reference and with a new chair, Lord Justice McFarlane.
It said: ‘For the future COIC is determined that with efficient administration and proper resources, including new dedicated accommodation, it will provide the service which the public interest demands and the bar deserves.’
Brigadier Anthony Faith, the under treasurer at Gray’s Inn, which is currently administering COIC, told the Gazette that the body is in the process of appointing a change manager, who will be in place by the end of October.
Faith said interviews have been carried out over the last two weeks for new lay and barrister members of the disciplinary panels and that new, refurbished, accommodation from where to administer the body is being made available in Gray’s Inn and will be ready by the end of the year.
Welcoming the report, BSB Chair Lady Deech said: 'The publication of the COIC tribunal review report is a vital step in assuring the public and the profession that the disciplinary arrangements for the bar of England and Wales are open and transparent.'
She said: ‘The BSB will continue to work with COIC as it implements the recommendations contained in the report. The improvements brought about by full implementation of the recommendations will cement the creation of an independent and modern hearings service, operating fairly, transparently and efficiently in the public interest.’
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Presumably this has to lead
Presumably this has to lead to the resignation of Lady Deech and other worthies at the BSB for having been part of a wholly discredited system...
The Law Society ought to set
The Law Society ought to set up an inquiry .
Sit back and watch the bar
Sit back and watch the bar commit suicide. To be read in conjunction with the proposal to allow baby barristers to take instructions directly from clients. Expect a real test of client care skills and complaints to soar.
BARRISTERS DISCIPLINE
So the cobblers could not mend their own shoes then?
What a surprise.
Well, the report might carry
Well, the report might carry some weight if I knew who they were!
Probably, like all others of that ilk, they are people whose income depends on producing a critical "report" with "recommendations" which ensure the members even more money. What a surprise that will be.
About time the bar
About time the bar disciplinary process entered the 21st century. It will be interesting to see whether any new disciplinary process will engage complaints with the same rigour as the SRA and SDT.
judicial review and possible inquiry into corrupt irregular prac
relates to me having problems with obtaining legal representation re being subjected to repeated regulatory oppressive measures after disclosing abuse relating to an ex boyfriend whom has caused me to be debased and where corrupt irregular reports have been occurring with formulation ofcounter corrupt manufacture of evidence instead of following up my concerns still living with physical harrmthis man caused me-corrupt financialpractices occurring peppered wit h repeated serious continuing crime -due3 to failures from offsetin 2005 still maintaining same line/disbelief etc.. because i have coped well/it appears i have had to do my own detective work and i uncovered all the evidence but i am now also nearly in danger of losing everything o worked hard for which under the circumstances of the case from 1986 again same set of contrived cir4cumstances by abusive ex also same false malicious manufactured covert fraud and false perpetrator allegations still affected mine and my sons lfe today-solicitor problems in 1986 with him being associated to ex and resurfaces in 2010/2012 in oppressive manner linked to harrassment by police relatives/failing dv staff/ex boyfriends and others -no quality of life since 1986 personal injustice/miscarriage of justice/with medical/criminal dv physical harm leaving me with being forced to cope now with 10 physical health conditions synchronised dv./medical harm making either impossible to prove/200 agencies involved/being vetted due to false financial fraud allegations by ex to dwp/employers/others etc...unable to sort out tax due to enforced welfare difficulties re teacher agencies re tax etc...barbaric situation to evade punishment and detection of offenders all i did was choose to do the right thing and i have been treated as a criminal myself due to ripple effectcan you advise almost concluded my final summary to obtain legal representation/judicial review /compendsation may be statute barred again[same as 1986 where i was butchered at the birth with lifelong pain and disfigurement still affecting me-disbelief because i cope well again]wrath causing in climaste of public service cuts as i seem to expose the weaknesses in the way patients can work despite lifetime of abuse and with so many health conditio0ns-reason for attempts to write me off-same in council.nhs and charities etc....
judicial review and possible inquiry into corrupt irregular prac
relates to me having problems with obtaining legal representation re being subjected to repeated regulatory oppressive measures after disclosing abuse relating to an ex boyfriend whom has caused me to be debased and where corrupt irregular reports have been occurring with formulation ofcounter corrupt manufacture of evidence instead of following up my concerns still living with physical harrmthis man caused me-corrupt financialpractices occurring peppered wit h repeated serious continuing crime -due3 to failures from offsetin 2005 still maintaining same line/disbelief etc.. because i have coped well/it appears i have had to do my own detective work and i uncovered all the evidence but i am now also nearly in danger of losing everything o worked hard for which under the circumstances of the case from 1986 again same set of contrived cir4cumstances by abusive ex also same false malicious manufactured covert fraud and false perpetrator allegations still affected mine and my sons lfe today-solicitor problems in 1986 with him being associated to ex and resurfaces in 2010/2012 in oppressive manner linked to harrassment by police relatives/failing dv staff/ex boyfriends and others -no quality of life since 1986 personal injustice/miscarriage of justice/with medical/criminal dv physical harm leaving me with being forced to cope now with 10 physical health conditions synchronised dv./medical harm making either impossible to prove/200 agencies involved/being vetted due to false financial fraud allegations by ex to dwp/employers/others etc...unable to sort out tax due to enforced welfare difficulties re teacher agencies re tax etc...barbaric situation to evade punishment and detection of offenders all i did was choose to do the right thing and i have been treated as a criminal myself due to ripple effectcan you advise almost concluded my final summary to obtain legal representation/judicial review /compendsation may be statute barred again[same as 1986 where i was butchered at the birth with lifelong pain and disfigurement still affecting me-disbelief because i cope well again]wrath causing in climaste of public service cuts as i seem to expose the weaknesses in the way patients can work despite lifetime of abuse and with so many health conditio0ns-reason for attempts to write me off-same in council.nhs and charities etc....
Gray's Inn does not
Gray's Inn does not administer COIC, it houses the administration service for COIC. COIC is comprised of all four Inns, therefore it makes no sense to describe one of the Inns 'administering' COIC because that would mean Gray's had authority over Lincoln's, Middle and Inner which is not the case.
We need no conspiracy
We need no conspiracy theories,we are no longer in the dark. In the clear light of day we can ALL see the basic facts; banks are corrupt, much of politics and many politicians are corrupt, big business in corrupt, media are corrupt, many councils are corrupt and inept, management of public services is corrupt, many police and judges are corrupt, or in dereliction of their duties.
To resolve these paramount issues there is only one answer, and that is to charge them all with crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, genocide and ecocide.
One chance for choice to choose that which is truthful and just as opposed to that which is ungodly, unconstitutional and an affront to decency.
The Law is the Law; Police and Judges are bound by position, duty and oath to uphold International, Domestic and common law.
At present they are in breach of all.
This charge levied at them is not a work of fiction, as you can see, and to a large degree, already know, the facts speak for themselves. So see this information as an addition and a solid basis for the charges levied
Nuremberg principles
Principle III states, "The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under international law acted as Head of State or responsible government official does not relieve him from responsibility under international law."
Principle IV states: "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him".
This principle could be paraphrased as follows: "It is not an acceptable excuse to say 'I was just following my superior's orders'".
FAILURE OF DUTY & OATH
http://peoplesassembly.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/war-criminals-exposed-in-uk-government.html
The real problem is at the
The real problem is at the BSB. The facts that they have been allowing friends of the barristers complained about - and lawyers of the complainants - to handle cases shows that the system is utterly corrupt. The chance of them investigating these lawyers themselves is obviously zero. They want to spend their time investigating policical targets for CPD offences, and other technical infringements, and pursuing left-wing "social mobility" goals - directed towards giving their communist friends jobs with which to fund the Labour Party.
The RESTORATION of Common Law - Trial by Jury
Dear Readers/People,
This is further incontrovertible evidence of the ENTRENCHED CONSPIRATORIAL CORRUPTION against We the People in the UK: -
"A damning report on the barristers’ disciplinary regime recommends creating a new tribunals service after uncovering 'systemic failures' in the current system.
"The report by the Council of Inns of Court (COIC) disciplinary tribunals and review group makes 82 recommendations for change after finding ‘systemic failures’ in the administration of the tribunal system for disciplining barristers.
"It says the failings, which included issues about the eligibility of tribunal members and potential conflicts of interest where panel members were also on Bar Standards Board or Bar Council committees, ‘went back some years’."
Then why 82 recommendations? When one would have done: Bring these longstanding CONSPIRING lawbreakers to justice under Common Law (Trial by Jury) immediately.
Trial by Jury is the central tenet and sole justice system of the People’s legem terræ* common law. In legem terræ common law (constitutionally inscribed as the Common Law Articles of Magna Carta in 1215), it is the jurors’ duty in the Trial by Jury Justice System to judge the justice of the law and every act of enforcement and acquit any persons accused under an arbitrary, unjust or apocryphal statute, regulation or prosecution.
* terræ is pronounced terry, the ‘æ’ as in Cæsar, seize.
Common law governs government by the fact that all men and women are equally subject to the common law. No one is ‘above’ the Law of the Land. There is no immunity from the Jury’s Verdict, judges, legislators and head of state notwithstanding (ref. Articles 24, 39, 40, & 61). The decisions of Juries judge and rule over statutes and regulations made by national o