Author: Legal Cheek
The most error-strewn tweet announcing a new DPP ever?
Someone at “The Tomes” seems to have been in a little bit too much of...
Legal job website of the week
“We don’t list law jobs everyone wants,” reads the mission statement of US legal job...
Morning round-up: Wednesday 17 July
Now it’s Stobart Solicitors as well after SRA grants ABS licence [Legal Futures] Will Frankie...
Name that UK Supreme Court Justice
The 12 UK Supreme Court judges may not rack up Justin Bieber levels of views...
Morning round-up: Friday 21 June
“Astonishing” letter from Attorney General hints at government split over legal aid reform [Legal Futures]...
End of the day round-up
Twitter and Facebook users who post offensive messages online are likely to escape prosecution if...
Morning round-up: Thursday 20 June
Judge accepts testimony from Michael Jackson’s “ghost” in court [Now] Moral Maze: Pornography and the...
Top QC laments daughter’s indifference to mini-pupillage offer
As spotted in the letters section of yesterday’s The Times.
As MoJ consultation on legal aid closes, the UK criminal justice system is placed on ebay
Bidding closes on 11 June, with the UK criminal justice system “available to the lowest...
Quitting a big law firm to become an entrepreneur: the exhilaration and the fear
Last month Pete Dowds left DLA Piper’s London office for the final time. The three...
Just another day at the Chancery Lane Starbucks
Image by @LeonGlenister.
Are the Inner Temple toilets still a leading cottaging hotspot?
Readers may recall the spot of bother Inner Temple had last year with cottagers, who...
‘Why I turned down a place to study law at Manchester University to become a legal executive’
Is Rhys Bevan crazy? Why would anyone in their right mind reject a place at...
How long until the Stobart Barrister-Tracker App?
Surely, if it works for lorries…. “Stobarts have promised me that the next version of...
Dynamo Legal founder’s eyebrows: a Twitter tribute
The new series of The Apprentice began last night, giving the world its first glimpse...
Podcast: The fight to protect the brand of ‘solicitor’ from the ABS barbarians
The momentum may be with Alternative Business Structures (ABSs) right now as they pour through...
End of the day round-up
Keir Starmer to step down as Director of Public Prosecutions in October [CPS] UK gov’s...
Separated at birth? ‘Loverson’ barrister David Sherborne and his client Peter Andre
Or perhaps that orange glow is less about genes and more down to, er, grooming…...
The College of Law has changed…
Some of the more disengaged College University of Law students may have found themselves rather...
Morning round-up: Tuesday 23 April
In the future our police, lawyers and jails will be run by G4S [New Statesman]...
End of the day round-up
Naked rambler Stephen Gough appears nude in court [BBC News] It’s the end of the...