Defaulting solicitors

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Dear General Council of the Bar,

How many law firms are included on the Bar Council's List of Defaulting Solicitors and Other Authorised Persons?

How many firms have been included at this time in the past three years?

What are the factors that influence a firm's inclusion on the List and who makes the decision to add them? Are the firms told of their being added to the List?

Can firms apply to be removed from this list and how many have successfully done so in the last three years?

Yours faithfully,

John Hyde

privacy, General Council of the Bar

Dear Mr Hyde

In response to your Freedom of Information request, the General Council for the Bar is not a public authority and so is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. However, in the interests of transparency, we try and respond to FOI requests in the spirit of the Act.

Therefore, this email is to acknowledge receipt of your request, and to let you know that we will aim to respond within 20 working days, that is, by 1 October 2018.

Yours sincerely

Hilary Pook
Data Protection Officer
The Bar Council
289-293 High Holborn
London WC1V 7HZ
Direct Line: 020 7611 1398
Switchboard: 020 7242 0082
Web: www.barcouncil.org.uk
Web: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk

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Dear Mr Hyde

I attach a letter which I hope answers your questions sufficiently.

Yours sincerely

Hilary Pook
Data Protection Officer
The Bar Council
289-293 High Holborn
London WC1V 7HZ
Direct Line: 020 7611 1398
Switchboard: 020 7242 0082
Web: www.barcouncil.org.uk
Web: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk

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