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Interesting. I believe the barrister was totally right. I once instructed a barrister (born in Pakistan but qualified in England and dual qualified in Pakistan) to appear in an immigration tribunal. The judge refused to hear the barrister unless he produced the original of his practising certificate (which of course the barrister could not instantly do because it was in his London chambers). I told the judge that he was unlawfully discriminating in that he would never have done that to a white ethnically English barrister - and the judge reported me to the Law society for bringing the profession into dispute. The complaint was of course dismissed, but the obvious race discrimination was very distasteful.