Tag: Barristers
The most mixed metaphor used to insult lawyers ever?
Last week’s piece in the Daily Mail about the top earning legal aid lawyers –...
‘Criminal barrister’ ranked 7th sexiest job ever by GQ Magazine
Finally some good news for criminal barristers: they have made GQ‘s ‘Ten Sexiest Jobs Ever’...
‘I heard a voice whisper: “What a ghastly portrait of insufferable arrogance” – and I realised he meant me’
This is my 36th year at the Bar and things have changed a hell of...
9 reasons why Harry Mount’s hatchet job on the legal profession misses the mark
Today’s piece by ex-pupil barrister Harry Mount arguing in favour of the government’s legal aid...
Lawyers prove they can pull off a demo – as Britain discusses #PublicW*nkingOnYoutube
They got all dressed up, posed for clever pictures and were joined in such numbers...
As MoJ consultation on legal aid closes, the UK criminal justice system is placed on ebay
Bidding closes on 11 June, with the UK criminal justice system “available to the lowest...
The celebs supporting #SaveUKJustice
This morning Stephen Fry became the most high profile celebrity (he has nearly six million...
Just another day at the Chancery Lane Starbucks
Image by @LeonGlenister.
Why do wannabe barristers have to accept their BPTC place before they know if they’ve got an Inns scholarship?
The conventional wisdom is that students are unwise to do the Bar Professional Training Course...
Will lawyers fall for the government’s ‘wholesale privatisation of justice’ PR trick?
During the consultation over the scrapping of the trainee solicitor minimum salary last year, the...
Are the Inner Temple toilets still a leading cottaging hotspot?
Readers may recall the spot of bother Inner Temple had last year with cottagers, who...
Video: the Downfall of Chris Grayling
Justice secretary Chris Grayling has become the latest victim of the Downfall meme, in which...
Obscenity Lawyer: How to create a niche doing something you’re passionate about
As you’d expect, Myles Jackman – aka “Obscenity Lawyer” – has some great stories. My...
6 animals that look like Chris Grayling
Some have lampooned Chris Grayling for his lack of a legal qualification. Others have sought...
Going, going, gone – to the person with £2,660 to blow on legal work experience
Westminster School has completed its controversial auction of work experience at the criminal Bar, with...
In pictures: today’s legal aid protest
This morning’s demonstration against the government’s legal aid proposals saw 500 plus lawyers take to...
‘The tide may flood law firms, but I remain unconvinced that it will engulf the Bar’
The profession which I am to join in September as a pupil barrister is facing...
‘New Fathers 4 Justice’ set to disrupt London Legal Walk
Protest group New Fathers 4 Justice is promising to send a team of superheroes to...
Taxi for the bar – and the music industry?
The Stobart Group’s foray into law may just be the beginning of a campaign for...
‘I’ve come quite a long way since leaving Hull University with a Desmond’
In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...
‘I won’t be working for a corporation that views defendants as tongue-and-rectum sausage pate to be stuffed through the machine’
A rookie criminal barrister contemplates an uncertain future… The spirit of Thatcherism looms large over...