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A view from the top—the Bar in 2015

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Published on: 02 January 2015
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Practice Management analysis: Alistair MacDonald QC, a criminal barrister based in Leeds, takes over as the Bar Council’s new chair on 1 January 2015, the first leader of the bar from outside London in more than 20 years. He talks about how the government’s changes to legal aid and judicial review threaten the reputation of the UK’s judicial system.

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