The Bar: BSB picks Sir Andrew Burns as new lay chair

The Bar: BSB picks Sir Andrew Burns as new lay chair

The Bar Standards Board has selected Sir Andrew Burns as its next chair with Baroness Ruth Deech QC due to reach her term limit at the end of 2014.

Burns will initially serve a three year term at the regulator. He is currently the UK Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues and Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance having previously had a long career in the UK’s diplomatic corps serving as British High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to Israel.

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