Category: News
‘New Fathers 4 Justice’ set to disrupt London Legal Walk
Protest group New Fathers 4 Justice is promising to send a team of superheroes to...
Taxi for the bar – and the music industry?
The Stobart Group’s foray into law may just be the beginning of a campaign for...
‘I’ve come quite a long way since leaving Hull University with a Desmond’
In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...
‘I won’t be working for a corporation that views defendants as tongue-and-rectum sausage pate to be stuffed through the machine’
A rookie criminal barrister contemplates an uncertain future… The spirit of Thatcherism looms large over...
Lawyer commissions R’n’B ballad in his honour – then plays it on loop on his website
Visitors to the website of US lawyer Carl B Grant are greeted by a tuneful...
Wannabe Lord Chief Justices must pen 2,000 word essay to land top judge gig
In a departure from the traditional “tap on the shoulder” method of recruitment, applicants for...
BSB powerless to intervene in Westminster School’s mini-pupillage auction
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has said that there is nothing it can do to...
When a covering letter crosses the line from charmingly quirky to wacky
In a tough graduate law job market, there’s an argument for injecting a little personality...
How long until the Stobart Barrister-Tracker App?
Surely, if it works for lorries…. “Stobarts have promised me that the next version of...
‘Despite their unbridled ambition and long hours, my Clifford Chance contemporaries ended up leaving too’
In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...
Argent Chambers barrister Jerry Hayes in BBC Question Time nightmare
Hopes were high when it was announced that criminal barrister and former Tory MP Jerry...
BSB: Ethics exam that contained mock paper questions is ‘not invalid’
Finally, a month and a half after the infamous Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) ethics...
Judicial quote of the week: ‘Don’t be a blockhead’
As he sentenced the actor who voiced Charlie Brown in cartoon Peanuts (for threatening his...
Hardwicke Chambers ‘shocked by the views’ of barrister who called for age of consent to be lowered to 13
Yesterday, Spiked published a highly controversial article about Operation Yewtree by Hardwicke Chambers barrister Barbara...
Westminster School auctions a mini-pupillage – current bid £750
Struggling to secure work experience in the ultra-competitive environment of the Bar? Well, thanks to...
Too much education: why BPP is wrong to damn its graduates to perennial studentdom
A turning point in my life was when I ran out of excuses to do...
Dynamo Legal founder’s eyebrows: a Twitter tribute
The new series of The Apprentice began last night, giving the world its first glimpse...
Guildhall Chambers becomes latest set to stop offering criminal pupillages
Bristol-based Guildhall Chambers has followed London set Charter Chambers in withdrawing its criminal pupillage for...
‘You pay a price for putting your head above the parapet’
In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...
‘I’m the king of the world!’ DLA Piper hires entire cruise ship for partner meeting
As legal aid implodes and training contract numbers plummet to the lowest level since 1999,...
Pupillage application deadline extended (again) to Thursday 9 May
The Bar Council has extended the pupillage application deadline for a second time after disastrous...