Category: News

Could court proceedings be coming to your local boozer?

Lord Chief Justice appears to back radical move in wake of court closures

Feb 24 2016 2:32pm

Research: Over 70% of top judges and barristers are privately educated or Oxbridge

Little progress on social mobility at Bar for quarter of a century

Feb 24 2016 12:06pm

Renegade lawyers at Slaughters and CMS lead campaign to get UK out of EU

Lawyers for Britain rallies support for Brexit crusade

Feb 24 2016 11:30am

Cash-strapped Oxford Brookes law student infected with Typhoid for £2,900

Wannabe barrister turns to medical trials for much needed financial boost

Feb 23 2016 3:30pm

Students may have to fork out as much as £127k to chase barrister dream

Bar Council chair warns of escalating cost to enter profession

Feb 23 2016 12:34pm

Criminal law firm Kaim Todner to close next month

And highly rated outfit seeks placement for its current trainee

Feb 23 2016 11:49am

Family lawyers feel the strain as number of care cases skyrocket

More and more care applications are being made, meaning more and more work for family lawyers

Feb 23 2016 9:23am

Will EU law even be a module on law degrees next year?

Heightened Brexit fears spark student uncertainty

Feb 22 2016 2:51pm

Silk day: Boris takes Brexit break to celebrate wife’s QC appointment

Social media awash with full bottomed wigs and silver buckled shoes

Feb 22 2016 2:05pm

Neuberger beats Hale in most-mentioned Supreme Court judge rankings

And Sumption comes third in analysis of newspaper articles citing top justices

Feb 22 2016 9:45am

Does The Sun’s links to ‘kufr’ lawyer’s firm make it ‘extremist’?

Being tainted by association has its limits

Feb 19 2016 2:29pm

Social mobility initiative goes north as Bar Placement Week makes Liverpool debut

QCs of the future could come from under privileged families outside London, and the Bar Council wants to boost odds of finding them

Feb 19 2016 10:02am

Oxbridge students shun regional law firms

Oxford and Cambridge graduates make up less than 5% of trainees outside London

Feb 19 2016 9:12am

Regulation that plagued family lawyers declared ‘invalid’ by Court of Appeal

Chris Grayling's changes to rules on domestic abuse sufferers getting legal aid don't stand up to scrutiny

Feb 18 2016 2:48pm

Criminal law syllabuses to get makeover as Supreme Court gives landmark joint enterprise judgment

Felicity Gerry QC and Adam Wagner victorious as court changes the law

Feb 18 2016 12:02pm

Silver circle takes on the magic circle as Macfarlanes boosts junior lawyer pay to £70,000

Single-office City firm chucks an extra £5,000 at its newly qualified lawyers

Feb 18 2016 8:51am

Macfarlanes continues bumper retention season posting perfect 100% spring score

All six Macfarlanes qualifiers have committed their future to the "silver circle" outfit

Feb 17 2016 12:23pm

Addleshaw Goddard and Maclay Murray & Spens cease merger talks

Merger mania: Olswang eyeing up Bird & Bird and Simmons & Simmons, meanwhile Berwin Leighton Paisner and Greenberg Traurig in talks

Feb 17 2016 10:46am