Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
The Secret Barrister: The Tories’ tough talk on crime is shameless and cynical [The Guardian]
Lady Justice and the cult of the ‘girly swot’ [Medium]
The rule of law has become the rule of lawyers [The Spectator] (registration required)
On the (non-verbal) communication of consent [Secular Detective]
Guest comment: Has ‘far more assertive’ Supreme Court over-reached in Miller 2? [Legal Business]
David Allen Green: That was the constitutional week that was [The Law and Policy Blog]
Liverpool FC fails in attempt to register LIVERPOOL as trade mark [The IPKat]
People who don’t know their knees from their thighs [Law Society Gazette]
Mental health and wellbeing in the law — with Taylor Wessing [Legal Cheek Events]
“This is a non story. In top end commercial /civil sets, it is customary to have a raft of juniors in large complicated cases, doing research, drafting bits of skellys or pleadings etc, for subsequent amendment by senior junior counsel.” [Legal Cheek comments]
Jobs, jobs, jobs [Legal Cheek Noticeboard]