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Last updated on Wednesday 18th August 2010
Chambers People Noticeboard
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NEW JOB VACANCIES
The Job Vacancies section for this website has been update with news about some advertised vacancies.
Remember though - some vacancies that we are dealing with are NOT advertised, but we can only give information to registered candidates.
NEW DOOR AT 150 Fleet Street
We have finally had an internal door fitted to our room at 150 Fleet Street! This is to make it easier for visitors in the future. The lift to the 5th floor, which is currently key operated, will revert to an ordinary button. Visitors to the building will know that we have had to come and collect from the ground floor up to now. We moved into this building in March 2009 after many years in Chancery Lane.
RECRUITMENT NEWS
Recently, very few chambers have been recruiting new staff especially "starter" or junior clerks, who are the traditional lifeblood of the clerking profession. Very few senior staffing moves recently has resulted in a frustrated group of clerks in the middle ranks, who have great experience, but are unable to move on to better paid, and more responsible posts. We recognise the problem, and at Chambers People are pleased to offer guidance and individual assessments, to help identify any weakness in the individual that can be resolved, ahead of the next round of recruitment opportunities. We can provide individual (or group) training sessions, which will help to fine tune the Clerking duties and skills needed to become a success.
Contact Martin or Ginnie at Chambers Peope for more details about this.
New Jobs
Secret Squirrel!
We have several assignments for chambers, which are not openly advertised. If you are a registered candidate, we will let you know about them, but if you are not as yet registered, then we cannot give you details. Registration is simple - send your CV to us at staff@chamberspeople.co.uk and we will contact you, confidentially and discreetly, for further discussions, and to arrange a registration meeting.
If you are member of the IBC, you will get notification of positions that have been advertised by a chambers, who have also asked us to provide a list of our registered candidates to be considered. Therefore, if you apply to a chambers direct, please can you let us know, to avoid any confusion.
Staff Change at Chambers People
We have had a recent change in staff at Chambers People. After 7 years of assisting us with all the accounts work, Janne Winhede has decided to leave these shores and live in France, and therefore we are pleased to welcome her successor, Toks Ferguson, to look after our accounts. Toks is an experienced Accounts Administrator, with an impressive CV, who has even worked in the past for Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's company. If you are freelance or self employed and do work through Chambers People, Toks will be the person who will be in charge of getting you paid.
COMMENTARY
Having attended one of the Bar Council/BSB seminars and listened to the news about changes in the profession, it seems to us that the doom and gloom in the profession about the changes to future working arrangements is misplaced. Chambers will continue to exist. Self employed barristers' will still be in demand. Many solicitors stil want to have access to the independent bar, and will be able to do so. Barristers will always need someone, whether that person is still called a "clerk" or not, to manage their work, and deal with their administration while they are still in court or conference. Therefore, the profession will carry on as before. It will be a smaller Bar, and that might not be a bad thing. Supply and demand will mean that smaller bar might make the good barristers able to earn more. However, if the public were to realise that at the moment, there is a gradual reduction in the choices they have, as barristers are leaving the bar, they might not be so pleased with what the government is doing to the profession .....
Staff Salaries
Chambers People receive regular requests to advise on staff salaries for clerking, and non-clerking staff.
In order that we can help you all, it would be helpful if you could let us know, by email to staff@chamberspeople.co.uk whenever your remuneration has changed, so that your records can be updated. This information is the basis of our salary survey, which helps us to advise chambers on market rates, and is therefore of benefit to many people.
Congratulations to our candidates who have been offered jobs recently, including,
Enterprise Chambers (Newcastle), Park Court Chambers (Leeds),
30 Park Place (Cardiff), Henderson Chambers, Arden Chambers, 5 Essex Court,
Iris/Meridian Computers, Carmelite Chambers, Essex Court Chambers, 12 College Place, Southampton,
1 Crown Office Row, 9-12 Bell Yard, Pump Court Chambers, Landmark Chambers,
23 Essex Street, Monckton Chambers, Gray's Inn, 3 Verulam Buildings, Gray's Inn,
Maitland Chambers, Lincoln's Inn, 3 Paper Buildings, Temple,
3 Raymond Buildings, Gray's Inn, Doughty Street Chambers,
and 9 St John Street, Manchester.
We are now able to offer chambers - particularly designed for smaller sets -
FREELANCE CHAMBERS ADMINISTRATION SERVICE
here at our office in Fleet Street.
Chambers can call on experienced staff to provide them with Book-Keeping services, and general Property and Facilities Management on a cost-effective.
Please contact us for further details.
We are located at Three Kings Court, 150 Fleet Street, London EC4A 2DQ
We look forward to welcoming our clients and candidates to our new home since March 2009.
We have much more space, and better facilities and we are still only a few minutes
from the Temple and other Inns of Court, and the Royal Courts of Justice
EMPLOYMENT LAW NEWS
From September 2009
Workers can reclaim holiday entitlement lost to sickness
Workers are entitled to paid annual leave, the purpose of which is to enable a worker to rest and enjoy a period of relaxation and leisure. The purpose of sick leave is to ensure recovery from illness. Consequently, if a worker decides not to take annual leave during a period of illness, he must be granted a replacement holiday period to ensure that he is not deprived of his entitlement to rest, relaxation and leisure. This principle is likely to apply whether the employee falls sick before or during the actual period of leave. A recent judgment given by the ECJ in a case called "Pereda" has endorsed that principle.
New compensation limits
With effect from 1st February 2009, statutory limits on employment tribunal awards and other amounts payable under employment legislation will increase. In particular, a week's pay for the purpose of calculating a statutory redundancy and the basic award for unfair dismissal will increase from £330 to £350. The maximum compensation for unfair dismissal will increase from £63,000 to £66,200. And the maximum statutory redundancy payment will increase from £9,900 to £10,500.
By the way.....other recruitment companies provide their services to barristers' chambers. However, they do not have consultants who have worked in chambers before as a clerk, and with experience of all the divisions:
Civil, Crime and Family etc. so they may not understand how complex a job of a barrister’s clerk is,
and what sort of personality will survive in post.
RECOMMEND US AND GET A REWARD!
We are always very grateful to our candidates, clients and friends for recommending us to others to use our services for recruitment, including Solicitor firms seeking Administrative Staff. Please make sure that your contact
lets us know where the recommendation has come from so that we can reward you with some Gift Vouchers of your choice! Further details on request.
Chambers People 020 7583 2041
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