By Andrew Lomas The Bar Standards Board’s plans to introduce a professional duty to advance DEI will turn chambers meetings into maoist struggle sessions, says Andrew Lomas The Bar Standards Board (BSB) – the body that regulates barristers in England and Wales – has recently proposed to replace a barrister’s core duty to not unlawfully discriminate with a positive duty to “act in a way that advances equality, diversity and inclusion.” There are a number of problems with this. The first is a practical one. The core duties “set the mandatory standards” that barristers are required to meet. Criti…