The RIBA has been forced to pay for the services of two barristers in an effort to end the damaging civil war that has been raging in the institution.

The two QCs have been instructed on the RIBA’s behalf by City law firm Browne Jacobson in response to hundreds of pages of complaints submitted by former honorary secretary Kerr Robertson.

His complaints relate to the chief executive, Alan Vallance, the new board and its chairman, Jack Pringle, and other members of the institute’s staff.

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