Comprehensive Programme

Anti-Bullying, Harassment & Sexual Harassment Training

for Barristers and Pupils
Bar-specific, Regulator compliant training for barristers and pupils. 120 mins CPD.
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Six Modules

Choose this programme for a deeper dive into the regulatory, contractual, internal policy & behavioural obligations of barristers and pupils.

1. Introduction

(5 mins)

  • Context: culture of silence, untouchable perpetrators, fear of career damage/retaliation, lack of confidence in complaints process.
  • Correcting myths on Equality Act/ Prevention of Harassment Act application.
  • Harman Review & Bar Council/BSB/Judicial response: changing the culture of the Bar.
  • Flexible learning & module timings.

2. Regulatory Safeguards (Bar Council, BSB & JCIO) & Reporting

(17 mins)

  • The Commissioner for Conduct - role explained.
  • Talk to Spot: engaging the Commissioner (demo).
  • Talk to Spot's 4-step process.
  • How the Commissioner decides if behaviour is serious misconduct.
  • Who acts on your report.
  • What else your Spot record can do.
  • Conduct Rule changes - target & confidant exemptions; revised 3rd party threshold; 2nd approved reporting route; new definition of bullying.
  • Bar Council helpline & support services explained.
  • BSB duty to report, including self-reporting.
  • Live links to BSB Handbook; Equality Rules; Reporting Serious Misconduct Guidance.
  • The Commissioner for Conduct - role explained.
  • BSB Core Duties & Conduct Rules on bullying & harassment.
  • BSB direct reporting portal (demo).
  • Victim Support helpline shown.
  • New informal reporting pathway to Commissioner for Conduct/ senior member of the Bar as well as JCIO portal for reporting concerns about judicial behaviour.

3. Behavioural Expectations

(8 mins)

  • Your contractual obligations - chambers constitution, tenancy/pupillage agreement, policies.
  • Standards of behaviour - expressed & implied.
  • Below-threshold behaviour: Bar Council Toolkit examples.
  • Chambers' behaviour, equality & inclusion policies (per Bar Council recommendations).
  • Other policy areas: social media, IT, confidentiality, GDPR, intimate relationships.
  • What behaviour you can expect from others.
  • The Core Duties & Conduct Rules on bullying and harassment.

4. Bullying

(25 mins)

  • The definitions of bullying.
  • Where and when bullying happens at the Bar.
  • How bullying happens.
  • Types of bullying - Bar specific examples (tailored for barristers & pupils).
  • Common excuses & cultural defences.
  • How to respond to those excuses.
  • Who's responsible for eliminating bullying (tailored for barristers & pupils).
  • Core Duties & Conduct Rules - reminder (incl when reporting is needed).
  • Handling bullying if it happens to you: what to say; internal help; evidence; support; informal and formal reporting pathways (tailored for barristers & pupils).
  • Being an active bystander; zero tolerance for bullying; the 5 x Ds; bystander duty to report serious misconduct.
  • Benefits of calling out bullying.

5. Unlawful Harassment (Related to a Protected Characteristic)

(25 mins)

  • How unlawful harassment related to a protected characteristic fits into discrimination.
  • The definition you need to know.
  • The 7 'protected characteristics'.
  • What counts as unwanted conduct?
  • What 'related to' means.
  • Focus on 'purpose' and 'effect'.
  • Bar-specific visual examples of each protected characteristic.
  • Victimisation explained. 
  • The detriments you might see at the Bar (tailored for barristers & pupils).
  • Barrister/pupil visual examples: unlawful harassment, victimisation & detriments.
  • Handling unlawful harassment if it happens to you.
  • Judicial harassment: informal & formal pathways.
  • 3rd party harassment: includes Bar Council Toolkit guidance; how to handle it; what to say; support; evidence; all pathways.
  • Being an active bystander: reminder.
  • The professional consequence of a barrister/pupil alleged/ found to have unlawfully harassed someone - all highlighted.

6. Unlawful Sexual Harassment

(25 mins)

  • How sexual harassment fits into discrimination.
  • What is sexual harassment?
  • What 'less favourable treatment' means.
  • Less favourable treatment must 'relate' to gender reassignment or sex but conduct of a sexual nature does not have to 'relate' to any protected characteristic.
  • 'Unwanted' conduct of a sexual nature - examples. 
  • Victimisation: a reminder; also the barrister/pupil detriments you might see at the Bar.
  • Barrister/ pupil visual examples: sexual harassment, less favourable treatment, victimisation & detriments.
  • Handling sexual harassment - if it happens to you. 
  • 3rd party harassment: how to handle it - including your professional reporting responsibilities.
  • Being an active bystander: a reminder. 
  • The many professional/career consequence for a barrister/ pupil alleged/found to have sexually harassed someone - all highlighted.
  • Sexual harassment as a hate crime.

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