Category: Comment
The Judge Rules: Anything less than a 100% qualifying lawyer retention is a law firm fail
Training contracts provide large global practices with a recruitment safety net -- but that’s not good for their businesses
The Judge Rules: career-focused millennials spell doom for the GDL
Like James Blunt, the law conversion course is just so 2005
The Judge Rules: This holiday, do the London Law Experience
Ministers shouldn’t allow the Royal Courts of Justice to lie fallow for two months -- turn the buildings into a theme park
Bar Council must delay plans to move Pupillage Gateway deadline
Clarity is urgently needed instead of tumbleweed blowing across the website’s alerts page
The Judge Rules: criminal barristers are playing into the government’s hands
The current strike is likely to be short lived and ultimately lead to what the Ministry of Justice wants
The Judge Rules: Chambers have a niggling problem with sexual harassment
Bar authorities have done well with recent £4,000 fine, but the hearing process needs to be more open
Is Ministry of Justice being mawkish with its rebadged Twitter page?
Families of those murdered in Tunisia are not going to feel better because of a slogan
The Judge Rules: In defence of Lord Harley
It’s time to drop the Alan Blacker obsession
The Judge Rules: get off mini-pupillage cake-girl’s back
Critics can’t go soft on work experience QC while slagging off mini-pupil for angling for her own edge
The Judge Rules: Bar officialdom must tidy up the mess around ‘brand barrister’
Scraped through the BPTC but failed to bag a pupillage? Not to worry -- you can still call yourself a barrister
The Judge Rules: the justice system has failed the Naked Rambler
Being offended by the naked human form should not trump fundamental rights
The Judge Rules: Students should be cautious following latest Uni of Law sale
Who is the 36 year-old new owner of ULaw?
The Judge Rules: imperfect law school rankings tell us something about complacent Russell Groupers
The latest league tables confirm that for law it remains Oxbridge ... and then the rest
The Judge Rules: The money’s good, so get it while it lasts
Junior City lawyers are bathing in big pay rises, but money isn’t everything -- just ask those in practice
The Judge Rules: publicly listed law firms will mean even fewer training contracts
Gateley’s move this week closer to the door of the London Stock Exchange signals the advance of yet another factor law students and young lawyers will have to confront
The Judge Rules: Garrick Club should be allowed to fester in maleness
Do women lawyers really want to belong to a club that has blocked them from membership for so many years?
The Judge Rules: Offering a glass of wine doesn’t amount to harassment
Women law students and young female lawyers doubtless have to battle leery male counterparts -- but there are gradations of perviness