Tag: Barristers

‘Grayling and Gove attempt to go unnoticed’ — the London Legal Walk in pics and tweets

The legal great and good were in attendance for yet another successful charity walk -- but were there some unwelcome guests?

May 19 2015 11:07am

Chuka ‘no’ shocka, Sir Keir declines – only Lamb remains as lawyer party leader candidate

But is former East Anglia employment partner actually being led to electoral slaughter?

May 19 2015 9:03am

Sheffield barrister that fled justice given four years for assaulting girl

Crimewatch alert led to arrest at Birmingham Airport of former St John’s Buildings lawyer

May 15 2015 3:26pm

Campaigners at war over Human Rights Act petition

Online bid to force a referendum has picked up nearly 200,000 signatures, but the experts reckon it’s counterproductive

May 14 2015 9:22am

This is what one chambers’ haul of pupillage applications looks like

A 40-member set in the Temple is swamped with pleas from wannabe barristers -- and it won’t be the only one

May 12 2015 5:35pm

Tory win sounds death knell for criminal bar, predicts top QC

Return of an even more powerful and unfettered Chris Grayling to the woolsack does not bode well for wannabe legal aid lawyers

May 8 2015 2:37pm

Pupillage Gateway applications fall by 9%

Hard evidence that law students are turning their backs on the bar

May 7 2015 4:52pm

Legal Cheek election poll results: law students and lawyers back Labour

Ed Miliband’s margin over the Conservatives is narrow, but enough to give the red rose party an outright majority

May 6 2015 2:12pm

A lido for lawyers: Crowdfunding bid launched to create floating swimming pool opposite Temple

As criminal bar struggles to stay afloat, £10 million plan unveiled to build epic bathing facilities in Inns of Court section of River Thames

May 1 2015 11:39am

The Judge Rules: Offering a glass of wine doesn’t amount to harassment

Women law students and young female lawyers doubtless have to battle leery male counterparts -- but there are gradations of perviness

May 1 2015 9:24am

University of Law tight-lipped over BPTC launch for Leeds and Manchester

So-called northern powerhouse cities already have 285 bar courses on offer -- and only 26 pupillage places

Apr 29 2015 5:14pm

Clifford Chance outstrips rivals in bid to field most charity walkers

Law firms can’t resist competing with each other -- even over charity events, as a league table currently being updated on social media graphically illustrates

Apr 29 2015 1:20pm

Litigant-in-person files notice to ‘f*ck this court and everything it stands for’

This expletive-fuelled -- but strangely nearly cogent -- notice to a US federal court judge may be the rudest official legal document ever

Apr 29 2015 11:07am

9 hateful Daily Mail comments about lawyers prompted by the illegal cycling of Justine Thornton

Further proof that Mail readers really, really hate lawyers

Apr 28 2015 11:18am

Pupillage places slip below the 400 mark for the first time

Training contracts tumbled yesterday, now it’s the turn of wannabe barristers to face bad news …

Apr 28 2015 9:57am

Election latest: some voters aren’t that sold on lawyer candidates

One Tory newbie barrister in standing in Hampshire, and our old friend the former telly producer turned Justice Secretary come in for flack

Apr 27 2015 3:18pm

Bring on the revolution, cries former Appeal Court judge, imploring lawyers to ignore establishment and go on strike

Timid approach from establishment representation bodies should be binned, advises Sir Anthony Hooper, in bid to put fire in belly of criminal law practitioners

Apr 24 2015 4:17pm

Bogus ‘boutique barrister’ puts regulator in spotlight over non-practising status

Bar Standards Board defends its position as pupillage-less bar graduate is jailed for fraud after using "barrister" title

Apr 24 2015 12:35pm

Former watchdog tells legal execs to battle traditional lawyers for top judicial posts

Controversial plea from the ex-chairwoman of Bar Standards Board is bound agitate current barrister and solicitor leaders

Apr 22 2015 2:50pm

Top black lawyer charges columnist with racism over migrant ‘cockroach’ slur

Katie Hopkins and newspaper editor in line of fire as Society of Black Lawyers makes incitement to racial hatred complaint to police

Apr 21 2015 2:51pm

Never mind Amal, the real barrister fashion story is Geoffrey Robertson QC

Bar fashion wars -- Doughty Street head takes on chambers colleague Amal Clooney

Apr 21 2015 9:21am