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Striking again — court defeat over legal aid cuts could see barristers back...
Judges back government plans for massive cuts in number of legal aid law firms, reigniting fears that law students wanting a career in crime … will have to rob banks The prospect looms again of...
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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 Cambridge — 1997 So bad it’s good BPP — 2000 Stock image heaven Nottingham — 1999 Bleak Queen Mary — 1998...
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Twitterati goes wild after Lord Wilson uses exclamation mark in Supreme Court...
Even Lord Denning didn’t go this far The Twittersphere is awash with outrage this afternoon after Supreme Court judge Lord Wilson used an exclamation mark in a judgment. Jon Baines, the chairman of the...
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Saul Goodman-style mavericks vs straight-A golden children: who will be the...
Debt-burdened wannabe litigators could yet exert influence on direction of grades-obsessed profession through new routes like the paralegal shortcut Up until the financial crisis some students with...
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The Judge rules: This is the end … for the criminal bar
Wannabe criminal barristers should “celebrate” this week’s Court of Appeal ruling by spinning the classic Doors song and getting pissed to Jim Morrison’s prophetic lyrics As defining moments go, the...
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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 Aren’t baby pics meant to be restricted to that social media platform renowned as the depository of...
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Wirral Grammar School for Girls wins Bar National Mock Trial Final
Liverpool sixth formers emerge victorious from field of 2,000 students in final presided over by Sir Brian Leveson This year’s Bar National Mock Trial Competition has been won by Wirral Grammar School...
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Former One Direction star Zayn Malik to be fast-tracked to bar pupillage...
Just days after jacking in boy band — and with no traditional qualifications — Zayn Malik has bagged a place at a magic circle chambers Pop sensation Zayn Malik is to be fast-tracked to a top-flight...
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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 … US criminal defence lawyer John Turnbull III’s venture into Facebook advertising hasn’t gone...
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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 This is not an April Fools’ parody — although it might feel like a cruel joke...
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The lamps went out all over legal London today
Power cut brings chaos to lawyer-land, but several brave souls manage to get down the pub Lawyer implacability was superbly highlighted on Twitter this afternoon, as an electrical fire in London’s...
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Call for QC rank to be widened to all lawyers, not just advocates
Restricting the gong is unfair and a block to diversity in the modern profession, says legal executives group Queen’s Counsel — the highest rank for advocates in the UK — should be more widely...
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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 This is just what hard-pressed pupillage-hunting barristers need...
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8 top English uni law faculties dropped from Singapore bar approved...
Cries of protectionism ring out as Russell Group stars are axed Eight leading English university law faculties are up in arms after they were removed from the Singapore bar’s list of approved...
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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 Corporate in-house legal departments have become increasingly attractive to younger...
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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 There really is a barrister called Zane Malik, as...
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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 Music festival hazards usually...
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Bar blasts solicitors for ‘dumbing down’ Crown Court advocacy — and calls for...
Knife fight looms between three branches of the profession following release of inflammatory Bar Council report that borders on calling for the clock to be turned back A glut of solicitor-advocates is...
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Revealed: how law school fees have spiralled far beyond rate of inflation...
Some institutions are charging 150% more than the rate of inflation for the two courses required to qualify as solicitors and barristers Law schools are charging as much as 150% above the historic rate...
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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 The legal professions of England and...
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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 Any...
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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 The Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) is an expensive...
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Legal aid lawyers depicted as menage a trois loving superheroes in lobbying film
City law firms back star-studded cast in pre-general election bid to alert public to dangers of cuts to the publicly funded system Legal aid lawyers are so impoverished — or just plain randy — that...
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Barrister plays leading role in poster campaign promoting immigration
Award winning lawyer warns that senior politicians of all stripes must guard against turning the debate “toxic” as nationwide message is pitched at public A high-profile barrister is featuring in a...
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Labour politicians don’t want to talk about their vague legal aid manifesto...
Key opposition figures fail to respond to leading legal tweeter David Allen Green Labour published its manifesto today. The bit about the legal system was almost entirely contained in three paragraphs...
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16 reasons why Doughty Street’s Tunde Okewale is the most followed barrister...
Amal Clooney’s chambers colleague is rocking the Insta-verse 39 Essex Chambers’ Justine Thornton quietly joined Instagram the other day, and immediately hauled in an impressive 587 followers with 13...
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Legal profession doesn’t rate Tory manifesto pledge to scrap Human Rights Act
Anger as Conservatives promise Bill of Rights and to reduce power of European Court of Human Rights — oh, and hint at more legal aid cuts Top lawyers have reacted angrily on social media to the Tories’...
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Law student hero of University Challenge has already bagged a pupillage
Cambridge Uni third year Ted Loveday secured £60,000 position with Maitland Chambers last month University Challenge hero Ted Loveday is not only a genius who is adored by fawning members of the...
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Ukip manifesto pledges to protect ‘British law’ (even though ‘British law’...
Nigel Farage’s party seems unaware that England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own legal systems Despite possessing a number of lawyers in its ranks, Ukip has managed to make a...
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Latest threat to bar — mating and very aggressive seagulls
Lincoln’s Inn authorities step in to protect vulnerable bald barristers by calling in the raptors International commentators often gently mock UK barristers for persisting with 18th-century court...
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Fed up with the grind at the English bar? Perhaps this set of Kiwi jokers...
Pastafarians preferred, says an Auckland barrister in desperate bid to replace the last chap, who never fit in owing to odd film tastes Being cooped up in chambers at the other end of the world has...
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The Judge Rules: Politicians hate lawyers – and always have
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 It...
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Breaking news (er … wind) — fart clears East Midlands courtroom
It’s Friday — so brace yourselves for a spot of scatological reporting In what doubtless recalled one of cinema’s most famous episodes — the campfire scene in Mel Brooks’s 1974 classic Blazing Saddles...
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Never mind Amal, the real barrister fashion story is Geoffrey Robertson QC
Bar fashion wars — Doughty Street head takes on chambers colleague Amal Clooney The London silk with the most malleable of accents also turns out to be a bit of a fashion plate to rival his chambers...
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Top black lawyer charges columnist with racism over migrant ‘cockroach’ slur
Controversial Sun newspaper hack Katie Hopkins and her editor are in the line of fire as Society of Black Lawyers makes incitement to racial hatred complaint to police A leading ethnic minority lawyer...
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Trainee solicitors, barristers and law lecturers distil their exam preparation wisdom into seven-second Vine clips (click on the bottom right corner of each image to turn on the sound) Emma Reid,...
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Former watchdog tells legal execs to battle traditional lawyers for top...
Controversial plea from the ex-chairwoman of Bar Standards Board is bound agitate current barrister and solicitor leaders Legal executives should lead a “rebellion” against the last government’s legal...
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The Judge rules: lawyer websites — little more than worthy vanity publishing
A recent rash of online efforts from the legal profession should be praised for effort, but they won’t reach their supposed target audiences They are bright, breezy, colourful and chock-a-block with...
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Bogus ‘boutique barrister’ puts regulator in spotlight over non-practising...
Bar Standards Board defends its position as pupillage-less bar graduate is jailed for fraud after using “barrister” title Regulators were in the spotlight today over the continuing grey area around...
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Bring on the revolution, cries former Appeal Court judge, imploring lawyers...
Timid approach from representation bodies should be binned, advises Sir Anthony Hooper, in bid to put fire in belly of criminal law practitioners A retired Court of Appeal judge has implored legal aid...
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