I see you're back after that exchange you had in a thread in the Law forum with
@Stiffy Byng, but the chip on your shoulder is as prominent as ever and your points have gotten no more accurate. Let me set you straight on a few things.
First, the Bar Council has no role in regulating solicitors, including when it comes to advocacy. Barristers have higher rights as a matter of course, but if solicitors want them they are awarded by the SRA, not the Bar Council. So no, the Bar Council does not permit solicitors to do advocacy. It has no involvement in that at all.
Second, solicitors can do advocacy without higher rights, including in interim hearings, including Pre Action Disclosure Hearings, Allocation Hearings, Application Hearings and Case Management Conferences. They can do any of these hearings if they so wish without any additional qualifications, and some do on occasion. But as I say, if they want to do trials on the Fast Track and Multi Track, they can if they obtain their Higher Rights through the SRA (not the Bar Council).
Third, nearly all instructions that barristers receive to do advocacy in clinical negligence cases come from solicitors. It is the solicitors that are actively instructing the barristers to do those hearings. The power to choose who does the advocacy in these cases lies entirely with the solicitor. If the solicitor wants to do a particular hearing themselves, they will, and no barrister has any say in it, nor does the Bar Council. The reason why they don't is because, as you have already been told, solicitors and barristers are distinct professions and tend to be good at different things. Most solicitors do not want to do advocacy, but even for those who do it is normally more in line with
their business model to instruct a barrister to do hearings for them.
I know from that other thread that you once harboured ambitions to become a barrister and gave them up. I obviously do not know the detail of your situation and don't know the full reasons why you decided that the Bar wasn't for you, or why you might have thought that you didn't stand a realistic chance of obtaining pupillage. But for whatever time you were considering a career at the Bar, you clearly didn't gain much knowledge of how the profession works in practice, or how solicitors and barristers interact with each other, because your posts in this forum show massive gaps in your understanding of how the legal profession works in general. By all means hold opinions on the Bar, and by all means criticise it. But it would help if you informed yourself about these things at even a basic level, because right now all you're doing is making it clear repeatedly that you have very little idea what you're talking about.