Tag: Bar Standards Board
EXCLUSIVE: £81K Theft Barrister is STILL PRACTISING While On Bail Awaiting Sentencing
A barrister awaiting sentencing after admitting stealing £81,500 from his former chambers represented a client...
Barrister’s Error Sees Torturers Escape Jail
As the case of fake kidnap solicitor Francis Bridgeman (pictured) illustrates, lawyers sometimes make big,...
Sloppy Reporting Obscures Bar’s True Pupillage Problems
A contributing factor towards lack of diversity at the Bar, and the oversupply of wannabe...
‘If You Want to Be an Actor and Earn Some Money, Become a Barrister’
Recently the actor Philip Glenister (pictured below), of Life on Mars and Mad Dogs fame,...
Errors, Unhappy Staff & Mediocre Students: BPTC Monitoring Results
Legal Cheek brings you the parts of the Bar Standards Board report the providers won’t...
APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION
Follow @AlexAldridgeUK As the Christmas party season gets underway, Alex Aldridge is expecting great things...
#RoundMyKitchenTable: LAWYERS AND PR
Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge, whose flat’s central heating is broken, turns on his oven...
£65K FOR A PUPILLAGE?!
Follow @FellowsAdam Adam Fellows considers the discrepancies between pupil earnings, and asks whether the Bar...