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2021 Denning Lecture (8 December)
BACFI AGM (24 November)
Race and the Bar (3 November)
Student Evening (21 October)
"Firming" Up the Bar (15 July)
Inclusion and Diversity at the Bar
Withdrawal and Trade Marks Act (17 May)
Demystifying the Employed Bar (13 May)
The Taxman Cometh (29 April)
The Only Way is Ethics (25 March)
IR35 Seminar (4 February)
Equality & Diversity Seminar (27 January)
Inclusion and Diversity of the Bar
19th May 2021
We were very pleased to welcome the Director General of the Bar Standards Board, Mark Neale to speak on the BSB’s Reverse Mentoring Scheme and his experiences from being a mentee on this scheme. The scheme has been piloted this year with mentors being young students or barristers from non-white backgrounds and mentees being senior barristers from traditional backgrounds. Agatha Rockson, a mentor and BACFI member, gave her account of how much she has enjoyed being part of this and what it has meant to her mentee too. She encouraged everyone to get involved as it has provided so many opportunities for her. Srishti Suresh provided an overview of what Bridging the Bar does and the programmes it has set up such as a mini-pupillage scheme.
A lively discussion followed covering such topics as support offered for returning to work after having children and social mobility issues along with a suggestion that the BSB’s scheme should be widened to include other issues alongside those of race.
The BSB are continuing with the scheme and further details can be found here: https://www.barstandardsboard.org.uk/resources/bsb-race-equality-taskforce-launches-reverse-mentoring-scheme.html
Bridging the Bar’s programme details can be found here: https://bridgingthebar.org/our-programmes/.
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