Tag: Judges

10 Reasons To Be Kind To Lawyers

It’s Tuesday 9 April, which is of course Be Kind To Lawyers Day. At a...

Apr 9 2013 10:15am

Retiring Judge Delivers What May Be The Most Tortuous Equine Metaphor Ever

The Court of Appeal judgment in Colin Wright v Michael Wright Supplies Ltd and Turner...

Mar 28 2013 9:27am

EXCLUSIVE: Executive committee of the UK Law Students Association quits after huge bust-up with governors

There is chaos at the UK Law Students Association (UKLSA) – whose patrons are Lord...

Mar 18 2013 2:33pm

Lord Neuberger Is Trending! UK’s Top Judge Ousts Justin Bieber As Twitter’s Hottest Topic After Voicing Legal Aid Concerns

It’s not often that you get a member of the legal profession outperforming Justin Bieber...

Mar 5 2013 10:21am

‘We Need Some More Girls In Here: There’s Too Many Man, Too Many Many Man’ In The UK Supreme Court

The news that the latest three appointments to the Supreme Court are all men means...

Feb 27 2013 10:27am

Analysed: The Poor Posture And ‘Smug Smile’ Of Supreme Court President Lord Neuberger

Yesterday, hidden away at the bottom of Joshua Rozenberg’s article in The Guardian about judges’...

Feb 14 2013 10:12am

What Supreme Court Justices Read In Their Spare Time…

Encouraging to see Private Eye making an appearance in the UK Supreme Court Justices’ library....

Jan 30 2013 10:04am

Beware What You Say In the Presence Of Law Students…

At a seminar last week, one of the most senior judges in India courted controversy...

Dec 10 2012 12:27pm

‘A barrister’s rhetorical flourishes can be seductive, but eventually they become an irritating distraction’

Ed note: This is the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I...

Dec 7 2012 11:40am

Top Ten Funniest #Leveson Tweets

Amid the Twitter storm of earnest pontification which greeted the publication of Lord Justice Leveson’s...

Nov 29 2012 5:10pm

Judge Gives Verbose Lawyer a Lesson In Editing

A US judge’s stinging criticism of a lawyer’s ability to write concisely has been doing...

Nov 21 2012 11:28am

US Supreme Court Justice Tells Sesame Street’s Abby That ‘Being a Princess Is Not a Career’

“Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career,” explains...

Nov 13 2012 10:01am

How Supreme Court Justices Can Save Legal Aid

In these tough economic times, it would be a shame for those costumes to go...

Oct 31 2012 10:00am

Why Did The Criminal Bar Association Choose Judge John Deed To Deliver Its Annual Lecture?

Surreal scenes yesterday evening at the Criminal Bar Association’s (CBA) annual ‘Kalisher lecture’, which was...

Oct 17 2012 8:46am

Day Of Reckoning Arrives For Court Interpreting Company Which Offered Jobs To Animals

Applied Language Solutions (ALS), the gaffe-prone interpreting service awarded the exclusive right to supply interpreters...

Oct 15 2012 6:29am

Constance Briscoe Is Arrested

Judge and author Constance Briscoe, who is a prosecution witness in the Huhne trial, has...

Oct 9 2012 2:21pm

Observer Hints That Solicitor Called ‘Chris’ May Have Been Involved In Civil Procedure Rules Breach. But Who’s ‘Chris’?

Yesterday may not have been the most relaxing Sunday for a mystery media law partner...

Oct 8 2012 10:09am

All 3 Previous Non-Lawyer Lord Chancellors Ended Up In Tower Of London, Lord Chief Justice Tells Chris Grayling

Chris Grayling, the new hard-line Lord Chancellor, isn’t the kind of guy who naturally elicits...

Oct 2 2012 9:29am

Who Said Judges Don’t Get Social Media?

The full transcript of yesterday’s annual press conference with the Lord Chief Justice is very...

Sep 28 2012 9:14am

At Last, Some Good News For Jobless LPC Graduates: If You’re Convicted Of a Crime, You’ll Get a Lighter Sentence Than Other People

Last month, BPP Law School Legal Practice Course (LPC) graduate Victoria Lawson admitted stealing more...

Sep 20 2012 9:25am