Doegar v The Bar Standards Board, [2009] EWHC 2231 (Admin),[2009] All ER (D) 70 (Oct)
Queen’s Bench Division, Administrative Court (London), Sullivan LJ, 31 Jul 2009
The starting point regarding the jurisdiction of the vistors’ jurisdiction under the Consolidated Regulations of the Court and the General Counsel of the Bar (the Regulations) was that it was an appellate one, and if the first instance hearing has been ineffective for procedural reasons, the appropriate course is usually to remit the matter.
The appellant appeared in person. Paul Parker for the respondent.
The appellant applied to be exempt from his pupillage requirements.
A panel of the Qualifications Committee of the Bar Standards Board decided to allow him a three-month reduction in each of the six months practising and non-practising parts of his pupillage.
On appeal the decision was upheld by the committee in a letter of March 2007. The appellant appealed. The committee accepted that there had been procedural unfairness to the appellant, and that the decision should be set aside.
The remaining questions were:
(i) whether his application for exemption should be remitted to the committee for re-determination,
