Category: News

End Of The Day Round-Up

Inside the Supreme Court [Radio 4] Q&A: Legal aid changes [BBC News] Legal aid: Criminal...

Mar 5 2013 6:34pm

New Statesman Readers Slam ‘Insolent Bloody Human Rights Lawyers’ Following ‘Shyster’ Barrister’s Pro-Human Rights Blog

Yes, that’s New Statesman readers… 1 Crown Office Row barrister Adam Wagner, who also edits...

Mar 5 2013 1:36pm

Lord Neuberger Is Trending! UK’s Top Judge Ousts Justin Bieber As Twitter’s Hottest Topic After Voicing Legal Aid Concerns

It’s not often that you get a member of the legal profession outperforming Justin Bieber...

Mar 5 2013 10:21am

Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 5 March

Michael Turner QC: “Once you get your young barristers being trained by Tesco’s you will...

Mar 5 2013 9:24am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Secret courts: Former top judge Lord Woolf backs government changes [BBC News] Lawyer who was...

Mar 4 2013 6:40pm

Unlikely Piece Of Law Firm Artwork Of The Week

Amid the corporate swirls and twee etchings at HowardKennedyFSi’s offices, where the Legal Cheek team...

Mar 1 2013 4:51pm

Tooksgate: Michael Mansfield Releases Statement Saying He ‘Would Not Knowingly Have Become Involved In An Event That Charged Students’

Michael Mansfield QC, the star speaker at the now notorious paid-for pupillage application advice event,...

Mar 1 2013 1:10pm

‘In Those Days Getting A 2:2 Wasn’t A Great Concern’

Ed note: This is the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I...

Mar 1 2013 10:37am

Morning Round-Up: Friday 1 March

Rolling Stones threaten legal action over new swinging 60s musical Carnaby Street [The Independent] Judge...

Mar 1 2013 9:12am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Vatican’s plan to call retiring pontiff Benedict XVI “Pope Emeritus” hits snag as rapper who...

Feb 28 2013 6:34pm

Hacking Trend Hits Law As North London Solicitors Firm Is ‘Attacked By Some Unknown Gunmen’

These days, everyone seems to be getting hacked. From Facebook to Burger King to Highgate...

Feb 28 2013 3:11pm

Is The Criminal Bar Finally Eating Itself?

Forget the rights and wrongs of the decision by two Tooks’ barristers to start a...

Feb 28 2013 10:08am

Morning Round-Up: Thursday 28 February

Parents in custody disputes spit and throw chairs at judges [The Guardian] CPS staff members...

Feb 28 2013 9:06am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Youngest of the new silks is just a year older than Spurs’ rookie manager Andre...

Feb 27 2013 7:20pm

Cambridge Academic: Corporate Law Firms Need Less Top Graduates And More Loyal Grafters With Low Ambitions

At a time when the legal services market is “going through the most tremendous upheaval...

Feb 27 2013 3:45pm

‘We Need Some More Girls In Here: There’s Too Many Man, Too Many Many Man’ In The UK Supreme Court

The news that the latest three appointments to the Supreme Court are all men means...

Feb 27 2013 10:27am

Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 27 February

2013 QC appointments: full list [Crime Line] One solicitor makes grade in QC round [Law...

Feb 27 2013 9:26am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Three male Supreme Court justices appointed to top court [Legal Week] More evidence of the...

Feb 26 2013 6:25pm

End Of The Day Round-Up

Florida set to execute man tomorrow despite lawyer missing key appeal deadline [Amnesty] Know-it-all law...

Feb 25 2013 6:48pm

Tooks QC Distances Himself From Colleagues’ ‘Ground Breaking’ How-To-Get-A-Pupillage Money Making Venture – But Mansfield Still Scheduled To Speak

On Friday we revealed that the directors of the company behind an event charging wannabe...

Feb 25 2013 4:11pm

Law Students Release Parody Of ‘Payphone’ by Maroon 5

“I’m at a law school trying to crawl through all of the work that we...

Feb 25 2013 2:26pm