ABSTRACT The Legal Services Act 2007 provided a framework for a liberalised marketplace for legal services. The most significant responses to this by the Bar appear in the Bar Standards Board Handbook, which was first released in January 2014. This included changes allowing for barristers to engage in litigation and enabling the Bar Standards Board to regulate entities rather than just individual barristers. This article places these changes within the existing theoretical understanding of the legal professions and professionalism, and argues that they open the door for a significant shift in the way that the discourse of professionalism is used in relation to the Bar.

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英格兰和威尔士律师协会的实体监管、诉讼权利和专业精神的变化意义

摘要 2007 年《法律服务法》为自由化的法律服务市场提供了框架。大律师协会对此做出的最重要回应出现在 2014 年 1 月首次发布的《大律师标准委员会手册》中。其中包括允许大律师参与诉讼以及使大律师标准委员会能够监管实体而不仅仅是个别大律师的变化。本文将这些变化置于对法律职业和专业精神的现有理论理解中，并认为它们为专业精神话语与律师相关的使用方式的重大转变打开了大门。