How the Bar is organised, regulated and entered, and the distinctive rules — from rights of audience to the cab-rank rule — that govern how barristers practise.
Understanding solicitors only takes you halfway through a split profession; the other branch has its own regulator, training route and rules of conduct. This chapter starts with the barrister's role and the division of regulatory work between the Bar Standards Board and the Bar Council, then traces the path to practice through call to the Bar and the two six-month periods of pupillage. It moves on to the practising certificate, the rights of audience it carries and the separate question of conducting litigation, before examining the cab-rank rule and the Public Access scheme for instructions without a solicitor. It closes with employed barristers, whether a barrister can sue for unpaid fees, and what sets King's Counsel apart from juniors.
