Tag: Barristers

It’s ‘foolish’ to blame the solicitor, says Afghan-born barrister stripped of case after client requested ‘white male’
Rehana Popal hit headlines last year after tweeting about incident

Top UK legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg confronts heckler during debate
'You be quiet sir'

2 Bedford Row invites aspiring barristers to pupillage interview in error
Exclusive: Promptly disinvites them

It’s not ‘virtue-signalling’: 20 Essex Street QC hits back at critics of contextual recruitment system
Decision to embrace City law hiring process drew fire from Legal Cheek readers

Lawyerly advice to pupil barristers: ‘Imagine the judge is slightly hard of hearing and a bit daft’
Words of wisdom (and a few poetic metaphors) for fresh-faced practitioners

Jolyon Maugham QC suffers backlash on Twitter after calling High Court judge ‘pro-Government’
Campaigning silk defends comments after criticism from fellow lawyers, including The Secret Barrister

Litigant in person throws White Book at barrister
Lawyer lent self-representing claimant practitioners' text at judge's request

Jailed paedophile barrister removed from legal profession
John Guess was a lawyer for the Welsh government

Leading media chambers One Brick Court to close following ‘unexpected departures’
It will dissolve on 24 June

Cambridge University triumphs in Vis Pre-Moot London tournament
Rookie arbitrators beat fellow uni teams from Denmark, Switzerland and Poland
£3,000 fine for barrister who put hand down woman’s skirt and squeezed her bum
Incident occurred at a bar, according to tribunal decision

Drug suspension barrister goes viral after pro-Brexit rant on BBC Question Time
Warming up for return to the bar?

Firm falsely advertises services of commercial barrister jailed over £600,000 VAT fraud
Fails to mention he was stripped of QC status

Tweeting Attorney General accuses Channel 4’s Jon Snow of talking ‘bollocks’ as Brexit pressure mounts
Hardly courtroom language

Profession gears up for next week’s Legal Cheek Awards 2019
Extravaganza takes place at the City of London’s iconic Cheesegrater

LinkedIn row: Former magic circle lawyer slams barrister’s TV entertainment show
Sham Uddin's videos show he has 'no regard or respect' for his own legal career, says ex-Allen & Overy solicitor Melanie Daniels

The Secret Barrister once used the words ‘squirrel sex’ to justify a poor exam result during a pupillage interview
Anonymous super-blogger drops biggest hint to true identity so far

Women barristers overlooked in favour of men, Supreme Court president says
International Women's Day: Female advocates complain to Lady Hale that males still scoop the big cases

Want to be the next Amal Clooney? Here are 5 things all aspiring human rights lawyers need to know
A panel of experts share tips from the top

Spoof news site jokes that barristers can now end cross-examination with a ‘mic drop’
NewsBiscuit mocks archaic legal profession