Bar council
A bar council (Irish: Comhairle an Bharra) or bar association, in a common law jurisdiction with a legal profession split between solicitors and barristers or advocates, is a professional body that regulates the profession of barristers. In such jurisdictions, solicitors are generally regulated by the law society.
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In common law jurisdictions with no distinction between barristers and solicitors (i.e. where there is a "fused profession"), the professional body may be called variously a Law Society, Bar Council or a bar association.
List of some bar councils and bar associations
The following are bar councils and bar associations that are professional bodies for barristers in common law jurisdictions with a split legal profession.
- General Council of the Bar, the professional body for England and Wales commonly known as the Bar Council
- Bar Council of Northern Ireland, in Northern Ireland
- Australian Bar Association, in Australia
- Australian Capital Territory Bar Association, in the Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales Bar Association, in New South Wales
- Victorian Bar Council, in Victoria
- Queensland Bar Association, in Queensland
- South Australian Bar Association, in South Australia
- Western Australian Bar Association, in Western Australia
- Tasmanian Bar Council, in Tasmania
- Bangladesh Bar Council
- Bar Council of Ireland (together with the King's Inns), in the Republic of Ireland
- Pakistan Bar Council, the statutory body that regulates the legal profession in Pakistan
- The Legal Practice Council, the regulatory body in South Africa that regulates the activities of all lawyers in South Africa
- The General Council of the Bar of South Africa, the body to which most regional bar associations in South Africa belong
- The Johannesburg Society of Advocates, the largest bar association in Johannesburg, South Africa
- Hong Kong Bar Association, in Hong Kong
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