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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

What Will Replace The Fading Dreams Of City Law Megabucks And Criminal Bar Glamour?

This is the central question that the panel will be discussing at Legal Cheek‘s Google...

Dec 5 2012 9:36am

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

Times Law Cartoonist: ‘I Have To Pay To Read My Own Cartoons Behind The Paywall’

This is – as a UK-based foreign football manager might say – a difficult moment for...

Dec 4 2012 3:13pm

Jobless Law Graduate’s Online Begging Campaign To Pay Off His Student Debts Ends In Disappointment

In October we reported on a US law graduate’s bid to pay off his massive...

Dec 4 2012 10:42am

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

Dinah Rose QC: ‘Marrying A Male Barrister Is A Disaster’

“Marry a house-husband! A 1950s-style wife – someone to have dinner on the table!” Dinah...

Dec 3 2012 1:34pm

Leveson And The Internet: Would Regulation Be A Good Thing For Legal Bloggers?

There was a brilliant cartoon in The Sun over the weekend making light of the...

Dec 3 2012 11:43am

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

‘So Why Be A Lawyer? There Are Many Bad Reasons…’

Ed note: This is the sixth in a series of posts where leading members of...

Nov 30 2012 3:19pm

Law Student Assoc Slammed For Using ‘Disrespectful’ Image To Plug Benefits Of Networking Via Its Facebook Page

Take a school uniform-clad Hollywood star, superimpose over her the logo of your law students’...

Nov 30 2012 10:39am

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

BPP Law School Makes BPTC Student Resit Exams After Her Results Were Lost (And It Almost Remains A Secret)

BPP Law School generally does a good job of, er, ‘managing its reputation’. But even...

Nov 29 2012 11:17am

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