02 February 2012
Leathley v Bar Standards Board [2012] All ER (D) 110 (Jan)
In the context of a barrister’s appeal from a disciplinary panel to visitors constituting a judge, a lay member, and a barrister, where the lay member’s fees and expenses had been paid by the Bar Standards Board, no fair-minded and informed observer would have concluded that there was a real possibility that the lay visitor sitting on the appeal from the disciplinary panel would have been biased in favour of the board on account of the way in which that visitor had been paid.
