Tag: Barristers
18 year-old becomes youngest ever barrister after passing BPTC
Gabrielle Turnquest, 18, will become the youngest person in the history of the English and...
Lawyer files petition at the International Court of Justice in The Hague to challenge the unfair trial of Jesus Christ
A Kenyan lawyer has petitioned the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to...
Barrister puts wig and gown on eBay and issues dramatic warning to Bar wannabes
A junior barrister has ended her career in dramatic style by placing her “Ede and...
Hotties of the week: ‘Melting barrister’s clerk’ slams ‘boiling barrister’
This week has seen not only the return of the “Barrister Hottie Experts”, but a...
How should chambers and law firms reject applicants?
Recently we received this email from a disgruntled pupillage-seeker… How did the pupillage-seeker know they...
‘Your Barrister Boyfriend’ reveals 5 more ‘barrister hotties (or notties?)’ nominated by readers
The authors of the seminal ’21 hottest barristers in London’ — hosted on the YourBarristerBoyfriend Tumblr...
The most error-strewn tweet announcing a new DPP ever?
Someone at “The Tomes” seems to have been in a little bit too much of...
How anonymous social media sensations can avoid getting sued
Amid the thrills of YourBarristerBoyfriend’s sensational arrival on the scene last week, there were —...
‘You need an offer…but you only need one’
It took a stint working in marketing, a brief spell as a criminal barrister and...
What’s going on at Tooks Chambers?
Rumours are raging about the future of Tooks Chambers. Yesterday Respect Party politician Lee Jasper...
Legal job website of the week
“We don’t list law jobs everyone wants,” reads the mission statement of US legal job...
‘Your Barrister Boyfriend’ Tumblr names ‘the 21 hottest barristers in London’
A Tumblr called YourBarristerBoyfriend has produced what it terms “the first ever official Barrister Hottie...
All the ‘common sense’ BCAT does is increase the cost of qualifying as a barrister
Having just sat the Bar Course Aptitude Test (BCAT) — which must be taken by...
Yet another top barrister quits Tooks…
The exodus began last autumn when Tim Moloney QC, Adrian Waterman QC and Tatyana Eatwell...
Spoof Lord Chief Justice application by Lord Justice Moses (aged 67½) — the full text
On Friday the Law Society Gazette‘s Catherine Baksi reported that Court of Appeal judge Sir...
‘If I knew then what I know now… I’d be on my hands and knees begging my younger self not to become a criminal barrister’
The criminal Bar no longer offers a path to a nice middle class lifestyle, but...
The most warped employment tribunal arguments used by claimants to (generally unsuccessfully) hang onto their jobs
A recent tribunal which saw a teacher compare Jews to Star Trek’s Vulcans — and...
‘We don’t even want to know your grades’: Is this the future of hiring pupil barristers?
Exclusive: Outer Temple Chambers has launched a new approach to graduate recruitment, which it is...
Top lawyers’ faces on other top lawyers
We tried to come up with a good reason for doing this, but there isn’t...
Barbara Hewson’s defence of notorious age of consent article on Channel 4 news last night unlikely to win her pals
Human rights barrister Barbara Hewson’s decision to write an article for Spiked magazine arguing, amongst...
Charmaines and Kylies in law: a full statistical breakdown
On Friday we reported that reality TV star Katie Hopkins had used the legal profession...