Short jail terms are bad for criminals, says Lord Neuberger: Sentences under six months ‘disrupt a prisoner’s home life [Mail Online]
Magic circle hourly rates hit all-time high of £850 [The Lawyer]
Legal aid cuts: Government accused of lying over cost as it prepares to slash legal aid bill again [The Mirror]
Former judge in court for “sending threatening and abusive texts to ex-wife seven years after she got a restraining order against him” [Mail
Online]
Richard III remains: York v Leicester legal battle to be laid to rest [The Guardian]
Why now is a good time to apply to law school [Forbes]
For the upper-middle-class graduate who always found herself more interested in 19th-century French painting than in computer programming or corporate accounting, law school may be the only way out [Salon]
141 firms must prepare to shut down, says SRA [Law Society Gazette]