Tag: Barristers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Further proof that Mail readers really, really hate lawyers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A round-up of the party election manifestos demonstrates yet again that while the legal profession might have right on its side, the political establishment of all colours doesn’t give a monkey’s

Pastafarians preferred, says an Auckland barrister in desperate bid to replace the last chap, who never fit in owing to odd film tastes

Life for follicly-challenged lawyers made a misery by London gulls -- but help on hand

Cambridge Uni third year Ted Loveday secured £60,000 position with Maitland Chambers last month