Today's video story: Interview with Former Central Intelligence Agency boss Michael Hayden, who also served for six years as the head of the US electronic spying division, the National Security Agency (NSA)
Focus of the day: The Bar Council has slammed the Bar Standards Board’s (BSB) forthcoming continuing professional development (CPD) regime as being burdensome, complicated, unfit for purpose, and involving “pointless” self-assessment. Making fundamental objections in response to a consultation on the rules and regulations of the new scheme – which comes into force in January 2017 – the Bar Council warned that it would lead to “many practitioners” being “likely to fail in their compliance” due to a failure to cope with “unnecessary formalities” imposed on barristers, not through a lack of professional competence. Full story - Legal Futures
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