Mental health can be considered as a mitigating factor in cases of wrongdoing by a barrister, but it carries less weight compared to other areas of law. The Bar Standards Board (BSB) recognizes that mental health issues may impact a barrister’s conduct, but it does not excuse or exonerate misconduct. The key consideration is whether the mental health condition affected the barrister’s understanding of their actions.
In serious cases, the BSB may take the barrister’s mental health into account when deciding on the appropriate response to the misconduct. However, the primary focus remains on protecting the public and upholding professional standards.
]]>U ok, hun?
]]>That’s cheating!
You should self report to the SRA for giving yourself an unfair advantage in exams!
]]>Hey don’t knock the Drynites- they saved me valuable minutes in uni exams!
]]>Totally agree!
Dry nights help me pretend I’m not pissing myself when appearing in front of the SRA for what the BSB would regard as a minor infraction.
]]>Yep- like the types who sue their uni because they didn’t pass their exams.
It’s always someone else’s fault for Gen D.
]]>Someone on here previously referenced “Generation Drynites” which is kind of apt…
i.e. rather than recognise that there is a problem, face it and deal with it, you can get or do something that helps
you to pretend it doesn’t exist.
There is nothing silly about my comment. Clearly it was misconduct, clearly she had to be struck off (which she had accepted) and clearly she was foolish to do what she did. At no point in my comment have I said any different.
The point I was making, which you have clearly missed, is that both the firm and the team in question were aware that the NQ had too much work but chose to leave her to struggle at a time when she was at her most vulnerable. They are lucky that she did not follow through with her suicidal thoughts, as we saw with tragic loss of Vanessa Ford who was also recording incredible amounts of chargeable time.
Is this comment satire?
]]>Erwin Mitchell has a system of recording the time that an employee arrives at work on the time that they leave work. In fact it will also recall the time that you go to the loo and return from the loo the system records the number of our build in any given week month/year in addition it will record the number of key/made by the employee in any given period. It would’ve been a simple matter for the tribunal to request that this information be provided to it. It is shocking that the simple step was not taken and of course it is not reported whether this information was offered by the firm. I know that many years ago when I resigned complaining of over Work I did not face the usual problem of the Department of employment withholding on employment benefit as I explained the system to them and invited them to request that they be supplied with such information by the firm.
]]>What a silly comment!
Mental health or no mental health, misconduct is still misconduct!
It’s almost a templated excuse. We hear it so much, it is just one person’s way of handing the pressure. Was there no one to reach out to in the difficulty? . Was there no better wa? Surely there was
]]>Look at him! Look at him! He’s replying to himself as Anon to make people think he matters
]]>Do you ever shut up? Or do you live in the replies of Legal Cheek comments just to get constantly berated by strangers as some weird form of masochism?
]]>Do you ever shut up? Or do you live in the replies of Legal Cheek comments just to get constantly berated by strangers as some weird form of masochism?
]]>“The SRA should be disbanded”
“Absolutely despicable behaviour by the SRA”
“Let’s start a petition to get rid of the SRA”
“Nobody took account of her mental health!”
“That barrister who murdered ten clients only got a fine from the BSB”
“If she were a partner she’d have got a slap on the wrist”