Tag: Barristers
Would you turn down pupillage at a top chambers to go travelling?
A Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) graduate has penned a blog about declining a top intellectual property set's pupillage offer in order to see the world.
The Mitchell decision and the breakdown of meaning
Following the recent further spate of Mitchell-related decisions, it has been determined after careful study of the ratio in each ruling that judges are simply making this stuff up as they go along.
An anatomy of Kaplan’s doomed BPTC
Positioning itself as cool, unfussy and cheap would have made the Kaplan Law School Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) less vulnerable to competition from bigger rivals.
9 charmingly vulgar lawyer personalised number plates
Because it's important that other road users know you're a lawyer.
Kaplan to ditch its Bar Professional Training Course
Kaplan Law School is to discontinue its Bar Professional Course (BPTC) from September 2014.
‘We are not doing a Tooks’ says Argent as it prepares to ‘merge’ with Goldsmith Chambers
Yet more drastic action forced on criminal sets by the legal aid cuts.
Brighton Pier Tarot reader wows barrister
First you get hit by the law schools selling their barrister dream, then the Tarot Card readers get you...
Top QC offers George Clooney 14 tips on being married to a barrister
The advice by 11KBW barrister Sean Jones QC — delivered via the #MarriedtotheBar Twitter hashtag — is essential reading for the film star ahead of his wedding to Doughty Street's Amal Alamuddin.
Barrister to stand trial accused of falsely notifying British government of Olympics nuclear attack
Practising barrister faces bomb hoax charges under Section 51(2) of the Criminal Law Act 1977 for Olympics terrorist nuclear attack warning.
Doughty Street barrister who topped ‘Bar hottie’ list gets engaged to George Clooney
Did legal blog YourBarristerBoyfriend bring human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin and film star together?
Take a deep breath and do some colouring in
An oldie but a goodie to exacerbate ease the pain of returning to work from the Easter bank holiday — or, in the case of revision-swamped law students, not having a bank holiday at all.
Google autocomplete reveals people’s true feelings about lawyers
Hot arrogant scum: The British public's view of solicitors, barristers and law students is rather confused.
Another criminal barristers chambers axes its pupillage
EXCLUSIVE: Criminal set Dyers Chambers — which specialises in high value fraud and serious crime — withdraws its pupillage for 2015.
Top QCs slam Pistorius prosecutor’s cross-examination style
Don't imitate approach of Gerrie Nel, urge three silks on Twitter.
QC day: in cat selfies
Bringing together the cat selfie template that exploded on social media over the weekend and today's QC appointment ceremony.
Who’s been pinching textbooks from Gray’s Inn?
Inn of Court issues issues Facebook plea after textbooks go missing.
Blogging barrister refers himself to the Bar Standards Board after committing ‘very serious’ contempt of court
Henry Hendron's "ringside" coverage of the Nigel Evans trial lands him in hot water.
Barrister feted as a ‘hero’ after jumping into canal fully-suited to retrieve child’s toy turtle
When attempt to fish toy from water with umbrella failed, in-house barrister Steven Molloy threw himself into canal and seized turtle — generating applause from passers-by.
8 historical moments as captured on Gray’s Inn’s very cool Facebook timeline
The Armada, Shakespeare and Blitz devastation: as experienced by the Inns of Court.
Robing achievement of the week
Simply by talking about law, Cornerstone Chambers barrister Ann Tayo is able to morph into a bewigged and gowned version of her casually-dressed self.
Infographic: why it’s really hard to land a job through the Pupillage Gateway
Places on the BPTC massively outnumber available jobs on this year's Pupillage Gateway, especially in the regions.