Tag: Barristers

A Publicly Funded Christmas Carol: The Barrister Hottie Ghost of Christmas Past

Waitrose Law returns with the second instalment of her legal profession festive fable (part one...

Dec 16 2013 11:59am

Cool off this unseasonably warm December with an ‘ice cream with lawyer’

All these enticing scoops of ice cream lack are some solicitor and barrister sprinkles…

Dec 16 2013 9:34am

‘Turning a story round as a journalist is closer to the process of preparing a late brief for a trial than I ever imagined’

Changing careers isn’t easy, says Catherine Urquhart of her switch from journalist at The Times...

Dec 13 2013 8:48am

12 of the least glamorous court buildings in England and Wales

Certain courts will never grace the pages of glossy law school brochures — with good...

Dec 12 2013 9:05am

A Publicly Funded Christmas Carol

A Festive Fable PART ONE The legal profession was dead, to begin with. Christopher Scrooge...

Dec 11 2013 12:23pm

Frontman of company seeking to ‘revolutionise’ criminal law makes grammatically incorrect bestiality slur against bemused barrister

Last night on Twitter the public face of a heavily-hyped new legal market entrant launched...

Dec 10 2013 10:29am

Kingston Crown Court unveils a lunch deal of such complexity that even lawyers can’t understand it

Can anyone decipher the meaning of Kingston Crown Court’s incredibly complicated lunch deal?

Dec 9 2013 1:07pm

Is this the most whirlwind pupillage application schedule ever?

Several pupillage hopefuls have alerted us to the incredibly fast pupillage application schedule being operated...

Dec 9 2013 9:37am

‘I was offered pupillage at the second chambers I applied to’

Unlike his friend, who crashed his hired Jaguar into the chambers where he was interviewing,...

Dec 5 2013 1:15pm

Podcast: How barristers can make an impact on social mobility

We gathered together Young Barristers’ Committee chair Hannah Kinch, Citizenship Foundation programme manager Paul Bower...

Dec 4 2013 1:01pm

Chair of Young Barristers’ Committee says she’d still advise students without wealthy parents to go to the criminal Bar

EXCLUSIVE: Young Barristers’ Committee of the Bar Council chair Hannah Kinch has made a robust...

Dec 4 2013 9:53am

Just when you thought national newspaper picture editors couldn’t select a more inappropriate law photo…

They’ve all been at it lately. Last month the Guardian committed the relatively minor offence...

Dec 4 2013 8:59am

The QC who has been hauling in more Twitter followers than the Pope and Stephen Fry

Just five days after Gary Bell QC joined Twitter last month and he had amassed...

Dec 2 2013 8:59am

The 16 finest lawyer Movember tashes

Throughout the month we’ve been keeping track of the moustaches being grown by the nation’s...

Nov 29 2013 9:02am

Bedford Row silks in battle to be the UK’s top/best/leading barrister

How do you compete when your chambers colleague bills himself as the “UK’s Top Barrister”?...

Nov 27 2013 10:20am

Advice: ‘I’m struggling to survive in the arts and yearn to fight the good fight — should I try to become a barrister?’

The other day I received this email from an Oxford University law graduate…

Nov 26 2013 12:50pm

Male barrister hotness by region: an infographic

YourBarristerBoyfriend’s list of the ’21 Hottest Regional Male Barristers’ — released this morning as a...

Nov 26 2013 11:06am

Nottingham barrister Matthew O’Grady triumphs in YourBarristerBoyfriend regional hottie list

Family law barrister Matthew O’Grady (pictured below) of Nottingham’s St Mary’s Chambers has scooped top...

Nov 26 2013 8:37am

How cycling made me a better lawyer

If he knew then what he knows now, ‘Cycling Silk’ Martin Porter QC would have...

Nov 22 2013 12:27pm

BPP offers free LPC to future Bar grads who don’t get pupillage — but excludes its current BPTC students from the deal

Late yesterday afternoon an interesting tweet appeared… Exciting news! BPP BPTC Career Guarantee- if you...

Nov 22 2013 8:19am

BPP offers free LPC to future Bar grads who don’t get pupillage — but excludes its current BPTC students from the deal

Late yesterday afternoon an interesting tweet appeared… Exciting news! BPP BPTC Career Guarantee- if you...

Nov 22 2013 8:19am