Tag: Barristers
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#MyRoutetotheBar: Tweeting barristers share their unconventional career paths
Features advice from a former window cleaner, lifeguard and nightclub DJ
Ex-Attorney General Geoffrey Cox joins Withers
Barrister and MP takes legal consultancy role at international law firm, as fellow politician Nicky Morgan rejoins Travers Smith
Bar Council rejects Henry Hendron’s election nomination after filing application one minute late
Controversial barrister says he’s ‘taking the matter to court next week’
Mixed-race junior barrister makes formal complaint after being mistaken for defendant three times in one day
'I don’t expect to have to constantly justify my existence at work', writes Alexandra Wilson
Barrister suggested female Asian judge landed role due to ‘positive discrimination’
Fined and reprimanded
Lamborghini-driving Aussie criminal barrister in legal row over ‘offensive’ number plate
'LGOPNR' = leg opener
Lord Keen QC resigns in row over Brexit bill
Will Robert Buckland follow?
Crowdfunding wannabe barrister pledges free careers advice in return for donations
Mohamed Hussein Iman needs £15k to start GDL
Top commercial chambers to fund criminal pupillage cancelled due to COVID-19
Keating Chambers stumps up £20,000
COVID-19: Regulator predicts drop in pupillage numbers
Knock-on effects of pandemic likely felt by students seeking training spots over next two years, according to new BSB impact report
Extinction Rebellion lawyers perform ‘theatrical and arrestable’ protest outside Law Society office
Follows demonstrations earlier this week
Home Office deletes ‘activist’ tweet amid complaints about ‘loudmouthed lawyers’ on social media
Post had been condemned by the department's top civil servant
Bar exams: BSB plans to offer ‘pen and paper’ resits as soon as possible
Regulator will launch 'lessons learned review' of testing issues
Former lawyer missed out on pupillage spot because chambers ‘hired a black guy last year’
The incident -- which happened around 30 years ago -- will be familiar to every black person looking for a job in industry, says now-entrepreneur Dawid Konotey-Ahulu
BPTC online exam chaos continues into second week
Twitter flooded with fresh reports of bar students being unable to access today's civil litigation assessment
BPTC student ‘forced to defer’ exams over fears she’d have to remove headscarf for male invigilator
BSB says proctoring partner could not guarantee female assessor due to increased demand during pandemic
Barristers dish out career wisdom to mark A-Level results day
Exams scrapped in wake of coronavirus mean sixth-formers receive grades based on predictions and schools' past performance
Proctoring problems: Bar students urinate in bottles and buckets over fears online exams will be terminated
One barrister hopeful is said to have worn an adult diaper
A life of crime
Chris Daw QC on life at the bar, his newly released book and venture into ‘vlawging’