Tag: Barristers
No Wonder People Think Barristers Are Raking It In…
Spotted on a robing room noticeboard…
Law Graduate Sought For Barristers Chambers Job That Is ‘Not a Step Into Legal Work’
Amid falling training contract and pupillage numbers, these are bleak times for law graduates. Still,...
Notice To Youthful Male Barristers On Trains: Give Baroness Deech Your Seat
Offering your seat to somebody else on the train is, from my experience, as likely...
Tweeting Like It’s 1984: Why Police’s Bright Idea To Ban Anonymous Bloggers Could Herald Orwellian Dystopia
Imagine a world where everything you say and write is stored indefinitely and attributable to...
Finally, The Inns Of Court Are Occupied!
During the past year the light at the end of the tunnel grew so dim...
Stick Or Twist? Deciding When To Call It Quits In The Hunt For a Pupillage Or Training Contract
There has been good news recently for several Legal Cheek contributors – three of whom...
NAMED: The Bar Graduate, 27, Who Anthony Arlidge QC Has Dumped Constance Briscoe For
On Tuesday, we relayed the extraordinary news that 18 Red Lion Court veteran Anthony Arlidge...
Anthony Arlidge QC, 75, Ditches Judge Constance Briscoe For Wannabe Barrister, 27
In his recently relinquished role of Master of Entertainments at Middle Temple, Anthony Arlidge QC...
The Post-BPTC Files: Starting An Internship Aged 28 ‘Wasn’t The Life I’d Envisaged’ – But It Worked Out Alright
Editorial note: Last month Gemma Amran turned the conventional pupillage hunt narrative on its head...
Pupillage Portal Gets The Year And The Day Wrong As Chambers Make Their Graduate Offers
There was widespread disbelief earlier this year when, for the first time in its three-year...
Pupillage Offer Day: How You’ll Feel…
…if you net that elusive pupillage And if you don’t…
Five Ways Barristers Can Treat Mini-Pupils Better
As I continue the Herculean battle to obtain pupillage, I broke a promise to myself...
Jobless Graduates Left At Whim Of Law Firms’ Make-It-Up-As-You-Go-Along Recruitment Procedures
Last month Kearns Solicitors placed an advert in Counsel magazine seeking LPC and BPTC graduates...
A Shaft Of Light At The Junior Criminal Bar? Why New Advocacy Assessment Regime Could Be An Opportunity For Baby Barristers
As the Quality Assurance Scheme For Advocates (QASA) consultation rumbles on, the latest concern is...
Hero Barrister Thwarts Drug Dealer’s Courtroom Escape Bid
It was just another morning in court. Peter Hampton, a barrister at Broadway House Chambers,...
Is It OK For Barristers To Call Their Client a ‘Slag’?
This morning, I tweeted a story about a barrister who’d described his client as a...
Blackmail, Inappropriate Touching And Assault, Amongst Some Other Offences: Annual Judicial Roll Of Shame Released
Most of the 79 members of the judiciary disciplined for misconduct last year were magistrates,...
A Neat Solution To The Legal Education And Training Puzzle
At the end of the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) symposium yesterday, I got...
Bar Social Mobility Week: Northerners Need Not Apply
This week is Bar social mobility placement week, with 69 high-achieving students from low-performing state...
EXCLUSIVE: Drug Possession Pupil Barrister Henry Mostyn Is Rejected For Tenancy
In May, 4 New Square chambers opted not to sack one its pupils, Henry Mostyn,...
‘How Will I Ever Come Out In Front Of Partners Who Say: ‘I Can’t Watch One Foot In The Grave Because That Richard Wilson Is Gay’?’
The words of solicitor-advocate and Law Society council member Keith Etherington, as he recalls how...