Author: Legal Cheek

Legal Cheek Top Five: The Week’s Most Read Stories

1. Dinah Rose QC: ‘Marry A House-Husband!’ 2. ‘You Can’t Touch Me I’m A Solicitor’...

Dec 8 2012 12:34pm

End Of The Day Round-Up

Lord Justice Leveson takes time out from Oz backpacker trail to deliver speech on privacy...

Dec 7 2012 7:16pm

39 Essex Street Barrister Justine Thornton Unveils Her Christmas Card

Pictured alongside hubby Ed, a politician, and her two young sons, the Thornton family’s main...

Dec 7 2012 4:08pm

NOT GUILTY: Trainee Solicitor Cleared Of Racial Abuse At Lap Dancing Club

The trainee solicitor accused of racially abusing a bouncer at a Leeds lap dancing club...

Dec 7 2012 10:13am

Morning Round-Up: Friday 7 December

High Court judge accused of jumping red light tries to have case thrown out because...

Dec 7 2012 9:47am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Dinah Rose QC’s husband responds to her “Marry a house-husband!” comment [Standard.co.uk] Latest on the...

Dec 6 2012 6:37pm

Morning Round-Up: Thursday 6 December

Legal Cheek at the Google campus: in tweets via competing hashtags [#legalcheek #legalcheeklive] When Britain’s...

Dec 6 2012 9:41am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Law student jailed after he attacked fellow undergraduate following row in lecture theatre [The Sentinel]...

Dec 5 2012 6:07pm

Court Told Of Trainee’s Lap-Dance Club Nightmare

UPDATE: Friday 7 December 9am – Michael Peters found not guilty. The trial of a...

Dec 5 2012 10:57am

Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 5 December

Free the Press, free the Judges [The Independent] Law firms: the priciest partnerships [The Economist]...

Dec 5 2012 8:37am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Judge Peter Bowers reprimanded over ‘burglary takes courage’ remarks [BBC News] Statement from the Office...

Dec 4 2012 6:48pm

Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 4 December

Google ‘should face libel laws over blogging site’ [Metro] Philadelphia judge ‘hangs himself after separating...

Dec 4 2012 9:23am

End Of The Day Round-Up

“Today’s score on Twitter: @Pontifex 1 – 2 Royal Family. The Vatican easily out-newsed on...

Dec 3 2012 7:03pm

Morning Round-Up: Monday 3 December

Mail finds new love for Human Rights Act [UK Human Rights Blog] as Shami Chakrabarti opposes...

Dec 3 2012 9:08am

Legal Cheek Top Five: The Week’s Most Read Stories

1. ‘I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here’ Issues Challenge Based On The Life...

Dec 1 2012 2:52pm

End Of The Day Round-Up

Porn producers face legal action over Fifty Shades of Grey adaptation [Metro] Office of judicial...

Nov 30 2012 8:26pm

Morning Round-Up: Friday 30 November

The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers [The Spectator] I’m a barrister,...

Nov 30 2012 9:13am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Judge Michael Stokes QC wins The “Common Sense Award” [The Sun] Law student Countdown contestant...

Nov 29 2012 8:42pm

Top Ten Funniest #Leveson Tweets

Amid the Twitter storm of earnest pontification which greeted the publication of Lord Justice Leveson’s...

Nov 29 2012 5:10pm

Newly-Merged SNR Denton, Salans and FMC Wants To Go By Its ‘Street Name’

Following on from the agreement of the partners at SNR Denton, Salans and FMC to...

Nov 29 2012 10:03am

Morning Round-Up: Thursday 29 November

The future of the legal profession in England and Wales: depressing or inspiring? [Standpoint] Transfer...

Nov 29 2012 9:24am