Senate of the Inns of Court and the Bar

The Bar Standards Board regulates barristers in England and Wales for the public interest. It is responsible for:

The BSB's functions were originally carried out by the Bar Council, the barristers' representative body, until 2006 when the Bar Council created the BSB as an independent regulator. However, the Legal Services Board has questioned the independence of the BSB from the Bar Council.

The BSB's governing board meets monthly at its headquarters in High Holborn, London, and holds public and private sessions. It has a majority of lay (non-barrister) members and the remainder are barristers. Its chair is The Rt Hon the Baroness Tessa Blackstone who joined in January 2018. The vice-chair, since January 2016, is Naomi Ellenbogen QC, Joint Head of Littleton Chambers. She replaced Patricia Robertson QC.

Members of the BSB's board as of January 2018 are:

Barrister Members: Mr Aidan Christie QC, Ms Justine Davidge, Ms Judith Farbey QC, Mr Andrew Mitchell QC, Mr Adam Solomon and Ms Anupama Thompson.

Lay Members: Ms Alison Allden OBE, Mr Steven Haines, Ms Zoe McLeod, Lara Fielden, Kathryn Stone OBE, Stephen Thornton CBE; and Ms Nicola Sawford.

The Bar Standards Board also authorise and regulate "BSB entities", which fall into two distinct bodies: BSB authorised bodies (previously referred to as "entities") are fully owned and managed by authorised, such as lawyers with a current practising certificate. BSB licensed bodies (also known as "Alternative Business Structures" or ABSs), however, are owned and managed jointly by both authorised and non-authorised individuals. The Bar Standards Board held a workshop at the 2016 Annual Bar Conference, and authorised the first three Licensed Bodies in April 2017, including VII Law, Minerva Law and ShenSmith Law. Licensed bodies have been reported by Thomson Reuters as a leading innovation of the legal industry.

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