Tag: Barristers
Guildhall Chambers becomes latest set to stop offering criminal pupillages
Bristol-based Guildhall Chambers has followed London set Charter Chambers in withdrawing its criminal pupillage for...
Pupillage application deadline extended (again) to Thursday 9 May
The Bar Council has extended the pupillage application deadline for a second time after disastrous...
Run Grayling Run
As a gesture of goodwill, we’ve included* Chris Grayling in our team for the London...
Newspapers’ categorisation of lawyers: a cut-out-and-keep guide
When The Observer conferred silk upon ‘Loverson’ barrister David Sherborne (who’s not a QC) on...
Pupillage application system fail – yet again
Update: the Pupillage Gateway deadline has been extended, for a second time, to Thursday 9...
When tweeting from a law firm Twitter account, be sure not to wish ‘death to all police’
A Canadian criminal lawyer is at the heart of a media storm after several highly...
Separated at birth? ‘Loverson’ barrister David Sherborne and his client Peter Andre
Or perhaps that orange glow is less about genes and more down to, er, grooming…...
Leaked CPS email details security breaches in robing room strewn with 999 tapes, confidential files and deodorant cans
Judging by an email leaked to us over the weekend, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)...
PR inexperience of ‘weirdly silent’ striking criminal barristers could cost them dear
The success – or otherwise – of striking criminal barristers’ campaign to prevent the dismantling...
‘The unacknowledged truth about advocacy is that it’s a sales job’
Casting my mind back 20 odd years to when I started out at the Bar is an uncomfortable experience. On any objective assessment I was a pompous little know-it-all...
The Home Office’s Spelling And Punctuation Shame (In A Press Release About English Language Tests)
As spotted by 1 Crown Office Row barrister Adam Wagner.
After The BPTC Ethics Exam ‘Very Serious Issue’, Tumbleweed…
It has been a month since the infamous Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) ethics exam,...
Chat, Date Or Instruct A Barrister!
The brand association hazards for barristers promoting their services via the Evening Standard‘s small ads...
Who Needs Chambers And Partners When You’ve Got Siralan?
Experts have been predicting the demise of legal directories for years. But market leading duo...
Podcast: Why Wannabe Barristers Should Do Their Time As Paralegals Before Doing The BPTC
The path from the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) to paralegal purgatory is a well...
‘I Think The Person Who Wrote The Bar Aptitude Test Got The Answers Wrong’
Barrister-to-be Sodslaw sits the practice version of the new Bar Course Aptitude Test (BCAT) –...
10 Reasons To Be Kind To Lawyers
It’s Tuesday 9 April, which is of course Be Kind To Lawyers Day. At a...
Lawyer Who Fell Asleep In Court Blames Hippopotamus-Related ‘Spiritual Attack’ Originating In London
A human rights lawyer who fell asleep during a hearing in the Ghanaian Supreme Court...
‘The Forces Of Conservatism In The Law Are Formidable But Not Unstoppable’
Ed note: This is the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I...
Alternative Careers For Law Grads: Busker
Some poetry from self-styled “People’s Lawyer and the People’s Poet” David Neita popped up on...
Why Geographicals Don’t Work
Back in 2007, after I’d spent a year flunking pupillage interviews upon completion of Bar...