Legal Profession: Training
(asked on 7th March 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many barristers have received the advocacy and the vulnerable training.
This question was answered on 14th March 2019
The training provided by the Inns of Court Advocacy service delivers on our manifesto commitment that publicly funded advocates will have specialist training in handling victims before taking on serious sexual offences. As of February 2019, the Bar Council have confirmed 3000 barristers have been trained out of an anticipated 3600 who work in this field.