The Bar on Trial by Robert Hazell (editor) Jonathan Caplan, Helena Kennedy, Alex Layton, James Munby, William Rees, Richard Tyson, Nicholas Warren - 1978

London: Quartet, 1978. Binding is brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine; 221 pages including the index; inscription to previous owner to top of opening page. Dj has some minor edgewear and a short three-quarter inch tear to top right hand corner of back cover. Public disquiet about the operation of the law led in 1976 to the creation of the Royal Commission on the Legal Services. Yet even inside the profession surprisingly little is known about its senior branch, the Bar. In this book, for the first time, a group of eight barristers broke a tradition of silence to speak out against the shortcomings and injustices of their profession. In a well-documented study based on extensive research, backed by the authors' own professional experience, almost every aspect of the Bar's activities is examined in detail. The authors provide ample justification for their charges that barristers' training is inadequate, their relations with solicitors excessively hierarchical, that the Inns of Court mismanage their property, that barrisres' clerks have too much power, that the organization of many barristers' chambers is woefully inefficient, and that the profession as a whole is urgently in need of reform. The Bar on Trial is essential reading for barrisrers, and for all solicitors and law students who want to learn at first hand how the Bar really works; and its disturbing findings will be of interest to anyone who is concerned about the quality of justice administered in England.. First. Hard Back. Near Fine/Very Good. Law.