Importance of the Independent Bar

Two decades ago, in words entirely appropriate to 2017, former Chief Justice Brennan said of the value of the Independent Bar:

“The independence of the Bar is as valuable to the client as it is to the public welfare. To the client, it gives an assurance of such accuracy as knowledge and skill can contribute; to the community, it gives the service of applying the law in the manner in which the law is intended to act. It is independence that makes the barrister essential to the administration of justice according to law.”