Tag: Students
Edinburgh University law students cause outrage after ‘blacking up’ as Somali pirates for fancy dress pub crawl
A group of law students are at the heart of a race row after they...
‘I applied to every firm in my home town for a training contract and they all rejected me without interview’
Rejection has proved a source of motivation for BPP chief Carl Lygo on his journey...
Preliminary hearing takes place in a Magistrates Court car park with accused sitting in a taxi
On Tuesday, in what is believed to be a legal first, an entire Magistrates’ Court —...
Why are so many law students selling their pants online?
It wouldn’t be very scientific to attempt to draw conclusions about the indebted state of...
Why money for pupil barristers is too tight not to mention
It is hard to support a young professional’s lifestyle on just £12,000-a-year, writes OccupyTheInns One...
The 18 stages of the LPC
A journey through the sorrow and the joy of the Legal Practice Course (LPC) It...
Pupillage-less Bar grad can’t call himself a ‘barrister’ anymore after he endangered helicopter with laser pen
An “unregistered barrister” has been struck off for the somewhat unconventional professional faux pas of...
‘If you recognise fear in yourself you are more able to see it in others’
At first, Caspar Glyn QC assumed the terror he felt before appearing in court was...
What do Bar graduates think of the new Inns of Court scheme to create ‘dozens’ of extra pupillages next year?
The new Inns of Court subsidy scheme to help publicly-funded chambers offer more pupillages caused...
‘Do we need more law courses?’ asks top QC as new BPTC course opens with pupillage numbers at lowest level in a generation
The fact that pupillage numbers are at their lowest for many years hasn’t stopped BPP...
Law students release legal parody of Lorde’s number 1 hit ‘Royals’
Since Lorde’s number one hit ‘Royals’ stormed the charts last month, it has inspired a...
‘There are moments in court when you wish the ground would swallow you up’
9-12 Bell Yard head of chambers Mukul Chawla QC wishes he’d been able to make...
Who in their right mind would wear a BPP baseball jacket?
BPP University has launched a branded clothing range, enabling proud law students at the institution...
Is it still worth being a legal aid lawyer?
Last night, at the launch of a report on social mobility in the legal profession...
Bar Standards Board chief: ‘There are too many people at the Bar’ and BPTC entry threshold ‘has to be higher’
The head of the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has suggested that the Bar is too...
9 Instagram photos that law firms wouldn’t use in their graduate recruitment brochures
Instagram — and the growing phenomenon of the law firm hashtag — is threatening to...
Have you seen missing BPTC graduate Gianni Sonvico?
23 year-old Kaplan Law School Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) graduate Gianni Sonvico has been...
Cash-strapped BPTC students turn to practitioners texts for fitness needs
A group of Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) students has shown how wannabe lawyers can...
‘If I had known what strange paths life can take you down, I would have been far less depressed at my prospects’
Does it really matter if you don’t know what to do with your life? Perhaps...
Pupillage-less Bar grad who used ‘barrister’ title to commit massive fraud is struck off
A Bar graduate who failed to secure pupillage has been stripped of the right to...
The 19 stages of the BPTC
A journey through the sorrow and the joy of the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC)...