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A Publicly Funded Christmas Carol: ‘I see an insurance company call centre...
Waitrose Law returns with the third instalment of her legal profession festive fable (here are parts one and two) PART THREE Scrooge awoke again as the great bell chimed the hour of Two. Though no...
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The Something Must Be Done Act 2014
Lawyer and blogger David Allen Green has had enough of tiresome legislation and meddlesome courts... Government and parliament waste too much time passing legislation. Last year there were 31 public...
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Team Nigella stoops to personal insult against victorious 4 Breams Buildings...
Nigella Lawson's journalist brother Dominic has mocked the "(impressive) rear end" of the barrister for his sister's former personal assistant in the recently-concluded Grillo trial. Writing today in...
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A Publicly Funded Christmas Carol: The competitively-tendered trial of Lord...
WaitroseLaw returns with the final instalment of her festive fable (you can read the whole fable in one place here) PART FOUR The Spirit led Scrooge silently through a tangle of streets that he did...
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‘One might have been forgiven for thinking I’d set up a brothel’: 12 KBW...
A rookie barrister has become embroiled in a very public war of words with King's College London after it terminated his honorary senior lecturer position over concern about a business he runs...
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The irresistibility of the competition lawyer
It's safe to assume that few lawyers have successfully charmed members of the opposite sex by lecturing them in excruciatingly boring detail about their job. Yet this is the precise scenario which the...
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This is why criminal lawyers are striking today
This year some public sector workers will receive pay rises. Criminal barristers and solicitors, meanwhile, have been told to expect pay cuts of 17.5% for less serious cases and 30% for very high cost...
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WalkOut4Justice: In pictures
This is how the first strike in the Bar's history looked It began, rainily... But the crowds still arrived en masse (and the rain stopped!) Crowds massing and clouds clearing at Southwark Crown Court....
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How to get the Daily Mail onside
If demonstrating your desperation through a strike doesn't change the mind of your foes, simply go to Lemmetweetthatforyou.com and insert a pro-lawyer tweet on their behalf... It works for the MoJ too....
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This Facebook post doesn’t inspire confidence in the jury system
Defendants (and their lawyers) appearing at Teeside Crown Court next week may be interested to read this post by a prospective juror, which appeared on the Newton Aycliffe Neighbourhood Police Facebook...
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Before submitting your BPTC application you should read this…
Wannabe barristers who are due to submit their Bar Professional Training Course (BTPC) applications tomorrow should take a look at the Bar Standards Board's (BSB) reports of the monitoring visits it...
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Lawyers sued for not advising woman that divorce would end her marriage
An appeal of the dismissal of a professional negligence claim against several London divorce lawyers contains an eye-catching paragraph...in which it is revealed that the claimant sued because,...
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The strange case of the vanishing pupillages
In the most recent pupillage application round Weir House Chambers advertised for "up to two pupillages to commence in early 2014". The closing date for applications was Friday 6 December, with...
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A journey into the mind of a lawyer-hating troll
Ever wondered what the lawyer-hating commenters on high quality forums such as the Mail Online look like in action? The troll "Slipknot P Harrington" provides an insight in the video below, where he...
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Can an Oxbridge law degree put you off becoming a lawyer?
Earlier this week a leaked email revealed that law students were the worst performers at an Oxford University college. Given the more challenging nature of a law degree relative to most arts degrees,...
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‘There is a life after the criminal Bar’
Weber Shandwick head of public affairs Alex Deane doesn't regret his time scraping a living at the criminal Bar, but amid a continuing assault on the profession it was time to take what he had learned...
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Why it doesn’t mean much when the chair of the Bar Council says they want to...
Yesterday's call by Nicholas Lavendar QC to limit Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) numbers has become an annual tradition among occupants of the year-long Bar Council chairmanship. As you can...
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12 things law students do say
The Facebook sensation Things Law Students Don't Say (TLSDS) has received almost 23,000 likes by posting statements that law students would never utter. Post by Things Law Students Don't Say. But what...
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12 of the most charming court buildings in England and Wales
Following the popularity of '12 of the least glamorous court buildings in England and Wales', here is a selection of 12 of the most charming... Isles of Scilly Magistrates' Court: delightful. Lancaster...
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Academia is ‘a long way from my hopes of being a barrister but it’s an...
Law students need to remember that "the you of today" may differ from "the you of the years ahead", says Northumbria University professor of law and society Chris Ashford I rocked up at university...
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