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Five terrible comedy law student videos
As is traditional at this time of year on the other side of the pond,...
Pupillage application system fail – yet again
Update: the Pupillage Gateway deadline has been extended, for a second time, to Thursday 9...
How not to become a smart casualty at a law firm open day
Is smart casual a trap? A law firm “encourages” me to turn up for their...
End of the day round-up
Keir Starmer to step down as Director of Public Prosecutions in October [CPS] UK gov’s...
When tweeting from a law firm Twitter account, be sure not to wish ‘death to all police’
A Canadian criminal lawyer is at the heart of a media storm after several highly...
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…...
Leaked CPS email details security breaches in robing room strewn with 999 tapes, confidential files and deodorant cans
Judging by an email leaked to us over the weekend, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)...
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...
PR inexperience of ‘weirdly silent’ striking criminal barristers could cost them dear
The success – or otherwise – of striking criminal barristers’ campaign to prevent the dismantling...
Hopes of an all-solicitor Masterchef final are dashed
There was a moment in Friday’s night’s Masterchef quarter final when it looked like Morgan...
Morning Round-Up: Monday 22 April
Newspapers name the Leveson barristers who are now an item [Google] Comment: The affair between...
Legal Cheek high five: the week’s most read stories
1. Chat, date or instruct a barrister! 2. ‘The unacknowledged truth about advocacy is that...
End of the day round-up
Judicial Statement: “We have been made aware that members of the Bar and solicitors have...
‘The unacknowledged truth about advocacy is that it’s a sales job’
Casting my mind back 20 odd years to when I started out at the Bar is an uncomfortable experience. On any objective assessment I was a pompous little know-it-all...
Morning round-up: Friday 19 April
“Lawyers are treated with a little bit more respect than porn magazine editors”: Ex-features editor...
End of the day round-up
DLA Piper settles “churn that bill, baby!” dispute [New York Times] Paralegals have the same...
The Home Office’s Spelling And Punctuation Shame (In A Press Release About English Language Tests)
As spotted by 1 Crown Office Row barrister Adam Wagner.
After The BPTC Ethics Exam ‘Very Serious Issue’, Tumbleweed…
It has been a month since the infamous Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) ethics exam,...