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Corporate Members 2020

3PB Albion Chambers Ashfords Barcan + Kirby Burges Salmon Clarke Willmott Cooke Painter Ltd Clyde & Co DAC Beachcroft Devereux & Co Enterprise Chambers The Family Law Practice Foot Anstey (including Enable Law) Fussell Wright Gregg Latchams Ltd Guildhall Chambers Irwin Mitchell Solicitors Kelcey & Hall Lyons Davidson Marc White & Co Meade King Michelmores LLP MS Rubric Osborne Clarke … more

BLS features in Bristol Post oldest thriving companies in Bristol

Excerpt from the article: How Bristol’s oldest companies are still thriving after more than 100 years in business They include the city’s last-surviving chocolate maker a wine merchant and a tannery. Why do some companies struggle to survive beyond a year while others flourish for hundreds? Although more than 90 per cent of small companies in Britain will survive one … more

No 12, The Meeting Rooms – Conference, Meeting and Mediation Rooms for Hire

Please note that the BLS office is shut to members at present as we continue to work from home during the pandemic. We can be contacted on info@bristollawsociety.com. In the meantime, our office is now operating as the Bristol Nightingale Court and accordingly, we are unable to hire out our facilities until further notice. (Oct 2020) Bristol Law Society’s suite … more

Law Society joins jury trials working party

Press Release

The Law Society, alongside the Bar Council and Criminal Bar Association, has joined a working party set up by the judiciary which will consider ways of starting jury trials as soon as that is safe.

The working party will report to the lord chief justice through its chair, the High Court judge Mr Justice Edis. The chair has welcomed the participation of representatives of the professions who will “make a real contribution to its work”.

Additional Note from BLS

Please note that Local Criminal Practitioner, Ian Kelcey has been appointed the Law Society Representative to this group and if members have any feedback for his, please do email him at ian.kelcey@kelceyandhall.co.uk