Barristers

Regulated by Bar Standards Board.

Protected title: Barrister
Legal basis: Legal Services Act 2007 sch.4; call to the Bar by one of the four Inns of Court
Canonical record: the-bar-record

How somebody becomes one

A law degree or conversion, the Bar course, call by an Inn, and pupillage.

In law, and in Parliament

830 documents on legislation.gov.uk mention this profession, 155 of them Acts, the oldest from 1640. Hansard records 9,989 contributions mentioning it, across 33 whole debates.

Every Act and instrument that mentions them, what was said in Parliament, and what each search phrase catches by mistake — or the same for every profession here.