FOCUS OF THE DAY: The Bar Standards Board (BSB) is unlikely to become an alternative business structure (ABS) licensing authority until 2015 and will not be regulating non-ABS firms, such barrister-only practices, before October this year, it has emerged. The BSB had originally hoped to start regulating non-ABS firms last year and ABSs early this year. Full story - Legal Futures
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