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Message from the Chair of the Young Barristers’ Committee

YBC Calendar

Young Bar Toolkit Building and managing a practice for the self-employed Bar How to conduct yourself as a pupil Applications for tenancy Specialisation Maintaining relationships with more senior members of chambers Timetabling holidays Working with your clerks Relationships with solicitors Marketing your practice CPD: How best to choose your points Childcare and other personal commitments The first years of practice – regulatory requirements The Bar Council, the BSB Handbook and professional guidance Keeping a record of your work Volunteering Handling complaints made against you Financial affairs, accounting and tax for the self-employed Bar Income expectations at the Bar Chambers financial administration: what do or should your clerks do for you? Terms of payment How long do you have to wait? Outstanding fees: fee chasing and collection Study loans and pupillage awards Financial institutions used to dealing with barristers Overdrafts, practice loans, mortgages and credit Accountancy services Pensions and pension options VAT Record keeping: regulatory requirements and HMRC Tax and national insurance Professional insurance: The BMIF and regulatory requirements BARCO Sole practitioners ABSs and entitites: Dual-practice – employment as a consultant State benefits and tax credits for the self-employed Illness/critical illness insurance The employed Bar What is an employed barrister? Building and managing a practice at the employed Bar Where you can find support when things go wrong Regulatory issues Financial affairs, accounting and tax for the employed Bar Wellbeing and work/life balance Wellbeing at the Bar Stress The science Mental health: key facts Protect yourself Get help Special help for those with caring responsibilities Talking to your clerks about work life balance Handling Nerves at Court Monitoring Mentoring Dealing with criticism Equality and diversity Useful organisations at the Bar Pupillage and how to get it

Building and managing a practice for the self-employed Bar How to conduct yourself as a pupil Applications for tenancy Specialisation Maintaining relationships with more senior members of chambers Timetabling holidays Working with your clerks Relationships with solicitors Marketing your practice CPD: How best to choose your points Childcare and other personal commitments The first years of practice – regulatory requirements The Bar Council, the BSB Handbook and professional guidance Keeping a record of your work Volunteering Handling complaints made against you

How to conduct yourself as a pupil

Applications for tenancy

Specialisation

Maintaining relationships with more senior members of chambers

Timetabling holidays

Working with your clerks

Relationships with solicitors

Marketing your practice

CPD: How best to choose your points

Childcare and other personal commitments

The first years of practice – regulatory requirements

The Bar Council, the BSB Handbook and professional guidance

Keeping a record of your work

Volunteering

Handling complaints made against you

Financial affairs, accounting and tax for the self-employed Bar Income expectations at the Bar Chambers financial administration: what do or should your clerks do for you? Terms of payment How long do you have to wait? Outstanding fees: fee chasing and collection Study loans and pupillage awards Financial institutions used to dealing with barristers Overdrafts, practice loans, mortgages and credit Accountancy services Pensions and pension options VAT Record keeping: regulatory requirements and HMRC Tax and national insurance Professional insurance: The BMIF and regulatory requirements BARCO Sole practitioners ABSs and entitites: Dual-practice – employment as a consultant State benefits and tax credits for the self-employed Illness/critical illness insurance

Income expectations at the Bar

Chambers financial administration: what do or should your clerks do for you?

Terms of payment

How long do you have to wait?

Outstanding fees: fee chasing and collection

Study loans and pupillage awards

Financial institutions used to dealing with barristers

Overdrafts, practice loans, mortgages and credit

Accountancy services

Pensions and pension options

VAT

Record keeping: regulatory requirements and HMRC

Tax and national insurance

Professional insurance: The BMIF and regulatory requirements

BARCO

Sole practitioners

ABSs and entitites: Dual-practice – employment as a consultant

State benefits and tax credits for the self-employed

Illness/critical illness insurance

The employed Bar What is an employed barrister? Building and managing a practice at the employed Bar Where you can find support when things go wrong Regulatory issues Financial affairs, accounting and tax for the employed Bar

What is an employed barrister?

Building and managing a practice at the employed Bar

Where you can find support when things go wrong

Regulatory issues

Financial affairs, accounting and tax for the employed Bar

Wellbeing and work/life balance Wellbeing at the Bar Stress The science Mental health: key facts Protect yourself Get help Special help for those with caring responsibilities Talking to your clerks about work life balance Handling Nerves at Court Monitoring Mentoring Dealing with criticism Equality and diversity Useful organisations at the Bar

Wellbeing at the Bar

Stress

The science

Mental health: key facts

Protect yourself

Get help

Special help for those with caring responsibilities

Talking to your clerks about work life balance

Handling Nerves at Court

Monitoring

Mentoring

Dealing with criticism

Equality and diversity

Useful organisations at the Bar

Pupillage and how to get it

Events

Opportunities International Legal and Professional Development Grant Programme

International Legal and Professional Development Grant Programme

BLOG Chairman’s Message News & Updates Day in the Life of Guest Blog

Chairman’s Message

News & Updates

Day in the Life of

Guest Blog

Sponsors

This section looks at the stresses and strains of working at the Bar. It offers some ideas on how to deal with them, and provides information on the practical measures which Chambers (and employers) are required to put in place to ensure equality of opportunity and treatment in the workplace and in practice – and what to do when things go wrong.

This site is being continually updated and added to. If there are things you would like us to cover in future updates, or if you would like to comment on the material that is here, please let us know at YBC@youngbarhub.com . Alternatively, please visit the Wellbeing at the Bar website on www.wellbeingatthebar.org.uk for further information.

Contents

Mental health – key facts

Talking to your clerks about your work life balance

Wellbeing and work/life balance

Young Bar Toolkit

About the Young Bar Committee

The first years of practice - regulatory requirements