10 June 2016
R (on the application of Bar Standards Board) v Disciplinary Tribunal of the Council of the Inns of Court [2016] EWCA Civ 478, [2016] All ER (D) 188 (May)
The Court of Appeal in allowing an appeal in part, held that, while a Divisional Court, on a judicial review application, had correctly held that a barrister who had successfully defended herself against disciplinary charges brought against her by the Bar Standards Board, was entitled to the costs represented by her expenditure of professional skill, it had not been open to that court to fix a new rate of charge itself. Section 31 of the Senior Court’s Act 1981 had required that the matter be remitted to the disciplinary tribunal of the Council of the Inns of Court.
