Tag: Barristers

"I consider this application, in accordance with the Overriding Objective" = "Eeeny-meeny-miney-mo"

Up to £2,500 per barrister available to fund flights, hotels and other costs arising from participation in conferences abroad

Highlight of Ministry of Justice’s controversial Global Law Summit to be a bottleneck of traffic in east London

Justine Thornton's ringing endorsement of "family-friendly" bar not backed up by stats

Top legal tweeters Mukul Chawla QC and David Allen Green call out MoJ

Is senior junior at 1 Gray's Inn Square the most foul-mouthed lawyer on Twitter?

"I'm wearing Ede & Ravenscroft," quips Doughty Street barrister

Previous chairman described controversial event as Putin-esque; his successor is a confirmed speaker

Strand Chambers' Henry Hendron has been bailed until March

Tedium of waiting for jurors to come to a verdict was relieved by a practical joke on a hack

Professional body found to have withheld key evidence by Court of Appeal

Debating society has rehashed Beach Boys track ‘California Girls’ to promote male hotties at the Inn

Actor parents of Sherlock star encouraged him to go into law, but the closest he came was to preside over Judge Rinder's wedding

Top end of the junior bar is dominated by Oxford and Cambridge -- to a far greater extent than leading law firms

A new frontier for social media?

The deadline is now noon on Wednesday

Thinking of putting in an application to do the Bar Professional Training Course before today's deadline? Read this first

There’s never a taxi when you want one -- the solicitors’ professional body says the bar’s regulation is arcane, irrelevant and reached its sell-by date

As 2TG award hits £67,5000, Hardwicke and 11 Stone Buildings also boost pupil money triggering a potential cash arms race for top talent

Criminal law specialist promotes second series of Judge Rinder by telling the nation that short-term forecast is going to be "terribly cold, terribly wet and thoroughly miserable”

Study shows that confidence is far more important than sounding testosterone-fuelled when wooing judges and juries