Author: Thomas Connelly

England cricket legend takes to Twitter to ask how lawyers can defend terrorists — barrister responds and gets blocked

Michael Vaughan poses a clichéd question that lawyers are really tired of hearing

Mar 29 2016 11:02am

Research: One fifth of the world’s top law schools are in the UK

But Oxford and Cambridge miss out on the top spot

Mar 24 2016 9:05am

Junior barrister admits supplying drugs that killed teenage boyfriend at Temple party

Strand Chambers’ Henry Hendron will be sentenced on 3 May

Mar 23 2016 12:12pm

Hogan versus Gawker: Free speech can be costly

Gawker has been ordered to pay an astonishing $140 million in cumulative damages to the former US wrestling icon

Mar 23 2016 11:11am

Top EU law chambers ups pupillage award to £65,000 as Brexit vote looms

Monckton Chambers chucks an extra £5,000 at its junior legal talent

Mar 23 2016 9:19am

Simmons & Simmons keeps seven out of nine new qualifiers

Firm declines to comment on how many trainees started this round's qualification process

Mar 21 2016 2:44pm

Sheffield bids to wrestle corporate law northshoring crown from Manchester

Council big wigs offer cash incentives to get a piece of the outsourcing action

Mar 21 2016 1:36pm

Junior criminal lawyer pleads GUILTY to conspiracy to supply cocaine

Barrister turned solicitor Omar Khan was charged in December 2015 and spent Christmas behind bars

Mar 21 2016 10:04am

Freshfields posts 82% trainee retention rate rounding off mixed bag for magic circle

Elsewhere in the City, Reed Smith posts disappointing 58% result while Weil Gotshal & Manges scores perfect 100%

Mar 18 2016 10:51am

Baker & McKenzie boosts newly qualified lawyer pay to £70,000

First year trainees will also walk away with £3,500 extra

Mar 14 2016 9:53am

Bar Council brands BSB aptitude pass mark rise ‘inadequate’

Bar's regulator and representative body in stand-off over BPTC entrance exam

Mar 11 2016 8:39am

Junior barrister on drugs charges represented by twin brother from same chambers

Henry Hendron was arrested earlier this year after 18 year-old boyfriend died of drug overdose at his Temple flat

Mar 10 2016 9:32am

Aptitude test pass mark raised to ‘exclude’ weaker wannabe barristers

Much-maligned BPTC entry exam was put on hold pending BSB-led review last year

Mar 9 2016 2:37pm

Cycling QC brings UK’s first ever private prosecution for dangerous driving

2 Temple Gardens barrister takes matters into his own hands after police declined to take action

Mar 9 2016 1:31pm

Gove ditches plan to have City lawyers subsidise courts

City tax was floated to replace cash generated from the controversial court charge ditched last year

Mar 9 2016 11:10am

Judge in courtroom rant as roof suffers fourth leak due to overflowing barristers’ toilets

Maidstone Crown Court rape trial delayed due to poor facilities management

Mar 9 2016 9:10am

Video: ‘Oh bollocks!’ MP’s outburst over suggestion that Brexit will cost the legal services market £1.7 billion

Former justice minister Jonathan Djanogly's suggestion didn't go down well with one MP

Mar 8 2016 5:23pm