Tag: Barristers

Legal aid lawyers depicted as menage a trois loving superheroes in lobbying film

City law firms back star-studded cast in its pre-general election bid to alert public to dangers of cuts to system

Apr 13 2015 12:21pm

BPTC is rubbish and needs urgent reform — say top barristers

Bar Council report lashes providers for churning out an expensive yet poorly regarded course -- and the aptitude test is equally lambasted

Apr 13 2015 9:34am

9 things we learned from the #PupillageApps Q&A

The best bits from last night's Twitter discussion about how to bag a pupillage

Apr 10 2015 1:30pm

The Judge Rules: Why the Law Society won’t stick up for solicitor-advocates

A Bar Council report flayed solicitor-advocates for being rubbish and Chancery Lane sat on its hands -- all because it needs to keep barristers on side in the war to save criminal legal aid

Apr 10 2015 12:18pm

Legal profession fused through back door – and it’s the bar that left it open

In a landmark move, barristers’ regulator gears up to authorise 15 new “entities” that look and smell a lot like solicitors’ firms -- and will compete with them

Apr 9 2015 2:49pm

Revealed: how law school fees have spiralled far beyond rate of inflation since the millennium

Some institutions are charging 150% more than the rate of inflation for the two courses required to qualify as solicitors and barristers

Apr 9 2015 9:34am

Bar blasts solicitors for ‘dumbing down’ Crown Court advocacy — and calls for legal execs to be barred

Knife fight looms between three branches of the profession following release of inflammatory Bar Council report

Apr 8 2015 1:42pm

Could festival toilets law be the hot new practice area of 2015?

From Glasto to the Isle of Wight, banks of portaloos hide a potential minefield of accidents and personal injury litigation, says England’s newest lavatory law specialist

Apr 8 2015 11:10am

Exclusive: There really is a barrister called Zane Malik

One Direction April Fools’ joke comes true (sort of) as Legal Cheek unearths a young barrister in Lincoln’s Inn who could be the boy-bander of the law

Apr 8 2015 9:44am

Research shows in-house lawyers pushed to the brink of illegality

Young lawyers might fancy the nine-to-five routine of corporate legal departments, but an ethical swamp awaits

Apr 7 2015 1:54pm

8 top English uni law faculties dropped from Singapore bar approved institution list

Cries of protectionism ring out as Russell Group stars are axed

Apr 7 2015 9:41am

Yet another BPTC is being launched — despite chronic shortage of pupillages

BPP is controversially to bring its BPTC to Brum, despite only nine pupillage places available in all the West Midlands as of yesterday

Apr 2 2015 2:34pm

The lamps went out all over legal London today

Power cut bring chaos to lawyer-land, but several brave souls manage to get down the pub

Apr 1 2015 4:35pm

Judges give Grayling a special birthday present — another High Court defeat

Justice Secretary gets slapped down again, this time over prisoner transfer reforms – but happy b-day, nonetheless, Chris

Apr 1 2015 4:14pm

Lawyer left red-faced in Facebook advert typo

Today's *face palm* award goes to a US lawyer in Maryland -- but, hands up, it could happen to any of us ...

Apr 1 2015 12:43pm

Former One Direction star Zayn Malik to be fast-tracked to bar pupillage (April Fool!)

Just days after jacking in boy band -- and with no traditional qualifications -- Zayn Malik has bagged a place at a magic circle chambers

Apr 1 2015 8:55am

Is this the youngest chambers pupil ever?

1KBW silk plonks the old horsehair on baby’s head in craven bid to win cute points from Twitterati

Mar 30 2015 1:28pm

The Judge rules: This is the end … for the criminal bar

Wannabe criminal barristers should “celebrate” yesterday’s Court of Appeal ruling by spinning the classic Doors song and getting pissed to Jim Morrison’s prophetic lyrics

Mar 27 2015 12:00pm

Revealed: How law schools’ websites looked at the dawn of the millennium

Throwback Thursday: A journey back in time through the World Wide Web -- law school edition

Mar 26 2015 12:31pm