A law unto themselves

The Bar Council faces pressures to modernise, writes Political Reporter Michael O’Farrell.

IMAGINE building a house, only you can’t talk directly to the architect. To make matters worse, he won't tell you how much the plans will cost until the house is built. And to top it all off, any complaints will be judged in private by a powerful body of the architect’s own peers, not an independent, impartial ombudsman.

If architects worked in the above fashion there would be uproar. The Government would likely be quick to intervene.