Tag: Barristers
Team Nigella stoops to personal insult against victorious 4 Breams Buildings barrister
Nigella Lawson’s journalist brother Dominic has mocked the “(impressive) rear end” of the barrister for...
The Something Must Be Done Act 2014
Lawyer and blogger David Allen Green has had enough of tiresome legislation and meddlesome courts…...
The end of the day round-up
“At least Mr Myerson has the courage to use his own name when being ‘witty’…I...
A Publicly Funded Christmas Carol: ‘I see an insurance company call centre and a slowly disintegrating wig’
Waitrose Law returns with the third instalment of her legal profession festive fable (here are...
How to speak lawyer: a guide for trainee solicitors and pupil barristers
The relationship between a trainee/pupil and their supervising lawyer is a complex one, fraught with...
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...
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…
‘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...
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...
A Publicly Funded Christmas Carol
A Festive Fable PART ONE The legal profession was dead, to begin with. Christopher Scrooge...
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...
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?
Is this the most whirlwind pupillage application schedule ever?
Several pupillage hopefuls have alerted us to the incredibly fast pupillage application schedule being operated...
‘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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The 16 finest lawyer Movember tashes
Throughout the month we’ve been keeping track of the moustaches being grown by the nation’s...
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”?...
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…