Bar Standards Board chair

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has announced Kathryn Stone OBE will succeed the Rt Hon Baroness Blackstone as its new chair on 1 September. Mark Neale, BSB director general, said: "Kathryn has been a Board member since January 2018 and she has provided invaluable advice and support to the BSB over the past four years. She has had a distinguished career in public life and I very much look forward to working with her in her new role as our Chair." Stone said she was “delighted” to have been appointed.