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Why a specialist property bar association?
- Raising the public and professional profile of specialist property barristers, many of whom are not in chambers, as a body perceived as specialising in property law.
- Providing a pool of expertise, and a forum for discussion, education and training for specialist property barristers and other property professionals involved in property dispute resolution and non-contentious property work.
- Developing innovative services to both lay and professional clients and in connection with the courts and ADR organisations and providers.
- Providing a distinctive voice for the specialist practitioner at the Bar in relation to proposals for reform of property law and practice.
- Increasing use by chambers in marketing professional services of the idea of specialist "property" or "landlord and tenant" groups is occurring without there being any external means of indicating or developing specialist expertise or experience.
- Difficulties experienced by individuals developing specialist practice outside established specialist chambers.
- Bar Direct and Direct Access and modern methods of legal practice are introducing new clienteles who have no inside knowledge as to who may or may not be a specialist.
- There are opportunities for using the internet and modern telecommunications to help clients and ourselves if co-operation between chambers can be achieved in the property field.
- The Woolf reforms have revealed opportunities for exploiting arbitration and mediation for the benefit of both practitioner and client by joint efforts e.g. the PACT initiative of the RICS and the Law Society in connection with business tenancy renewals will probably be relaunched and extended to dilapidations cases.
- Continuous Professional Development will be gradually introduced for all barristers and there is already great demand for training in specialist areas such as property law.
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Web site last updated 22 July 2004