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Cool off this unseasonably warm December with an ‘ice cream with lawyer’
All these enticing scoops of ice cream lack are some solicitor and barrister sprinkles…
Morning round-up: Monday 16 December
Right-to-die challenge reaches Supreme Court [BBC News] Live from 10am: the right-to-die Supreme Court hearing...
Legal Cheek high five: the week’s most read stories
1. 12 of the least glamorous court buildings in England and Wales 2. Frontman of...
The end of the day round-up
“This strike does not have to happen” [Nigel Pascoe QC’s Blog] Ukip councillor claims human...
‘Turning a story round as a journalist is closer to the process of preparing a late brief for a trial than I ever imagined’
Changing careers isn’t easy, says Catherine Urquhart of her switch from journalist at The Times...
Morning round-up: Friday 13 December
How has this escaped Twitter’s attention? [Shit places I go to in pupillage] Queen angry...
The end of the day round-up
Jurors in fraud trial of TV cook’s former assistants are told to ignore Prime Minister’s...
Podcast: Do you have a better chance of landing a training contract if you do your law degree in London?
The growing separation between recovering London and the struggling rest of the country poses an...
12 of the least glamorous court buildings in England and Wales
Certain courts will never grace the pages of glossy law school brochures — with good...
Morning round-up: Thursday 12 December
Ryanair’s racy calendar advert featuring stewardesses in bikinis is “banned” by Spanish judge for being...
The end of the day round-up
Scientology is a religion, rules Supreme Court [The Telegraph] Paul Hastings lawyer pays £75 million...
A Publicly Funded Christmas Carol
A Festive Fable PART ONE The legal profession was dead, to begin with. Christopher Scrooge...
The roaring eBay trade in law school notes
Following our recent story about the Kennedys solicitor who’s flogging her old GDL and LPC...
Morning round-up: Wednesday 11 December
Three murderers were sentenced to life imprisonment on one day. The minimum terms set were...
The end of the day round-up
The Bar’s worst chambers profile pics [Your Barrister Boyfriend] The first same-sex weddings in England...
Lawyers aren’t supposed to fall for Nigerian inheritance scams…
A US lawyer is at the centre of a storm of legal blogosphere ridicule after...
Frontman of company seeking to ‘revolutionise’ criminal law makes grammatically incorrect bestiality slur against bemused barrister
Last night on Twitter the public face of a heavily-hyped new legal market entrant launched...
Morning round-up: Tuesday 10 December
Are we in England too paternalistic to our juries? [David Allen Green on Facebook] The...
The end of the day round-up
Boat race protester Trenton Oldfield saved by non-Oxbridge lawyer [The Independent] 1,000 crime solicitors to...
Kingston Crown Court unveils a lunch deal of such complexity that even lawyers can’t understand it
Can anyone decipher the meaning of Kingston Crown Court’s incredibly complicated lunch deal?
Is this the most whirlwind pupillage application schedule ever?
Several pupillage hopefuls have alerted us to the incredibly fast pupillage application schedule being operated...