AN emergency meeting of the Bar Association has been called to discuss the body's new logo, which some members have described as ''appallingly ugly''.
More than 20 members have signed a petition demanding the emergency general meeting so the logo, adopted this month, can be abolished.
The Bar Council has agreed to meet on March 18 for ''the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, passing a resolution that the new logo . . . be set aside and the existing logo prior to the set date be restored or retained. Any new logo should be approved by members in the general meeting''.
The previous logo, used since the 1960s, comprised symbols of the four Inns of Court in London: Lincoln's Inn, Inner Temple, Middle Temple and Gray's Inn.
The decision to adopt a new logo was made more than eight years ago. Last year two options were produced by professional designers.
The council chose the new logo, which has a rectangle on the left and a square on the right with four strokes beneath.