Author: Legal Cheek

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

End Of The Day Round-Up

Are magistrates and juries using Google to help them reach their verdicts? [The Telegraph] SNR...

Nov 28 2012 7:23pm

JOB ALERT: Russian-Speaking Paralegal

From Baby Barristers: a leading London-based international law firm seeks a paralegal who speaks fluent...

Nov 28 2012 4:18pm

Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 28 November

Can you get around Facebook’s terms of service by posting some legal-sounding mumbo-jumbo on your...

Nov 28 2012 9:37am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Wannabe lawyers face new embarrassing Twitter archive threat [Mail Online] ‘If I could turn back...

Nov 27 2012 6:45pm

‘I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here’ Issues Challenge Based On The Life Of SJ Berwin’s Tim Taylor QC

Viewers of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here the other night heard Hugo...

Nov 27 2012 1:55pm

Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 27 November

Milking: an udderly bizarre student trend [The Guardian] Leveson Inquiry will be shelved or re-assigned...

Nov 27 2012 9:25am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Gateley to axe 19 fee-earner positions from English offices [The Lawyer] Naked man who climbed...

Nov 26 2012 6:44pm

Morning Round-Up: Monday 26 November

“The newspapers will print nothing but Leveson Leveson Leveson this week” [Adam Wagner via Twitter]...

Nov 26 2012 9:07am

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

1. EXCLUSIVE: Cottaging At The College Of Law – Bloomsbury Branch Joins Inner Temple As...

Nov 24 2012 2:59pm

End Of The Day Round-Up

Part of Whitehall shut due to naked man on statue [BBC News – photo via @johnestevens]...

Nov 23 2012 6:54pm

‘Solicitor Saturday’: Law Firm Releases Surreal Personal Injury-Themed Sky Sports Spoof

For those unfamiliar with the show, Sky Sports’ ‘Soccer Saturday’ sees washed-up ex-footballers offer excitable...

Nov 23 2012 11:09am