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9 reasons why Britain’s top divorce lawyer is set to have Britain’s top wedding
"Britain's top divorce lawyer" Ayesha Vardag has unveiled a new blog to spread the word about her forthcoming nuptials to her colleague, Stephen Bence. Readers are left in no doubt of Vardag's...
View ArticleMore than a slap-on-the-wrist: MoJ criticised for its barrister earnings stats
UK Statistics Authority issues blow to Ministry of Justice. Minister for the Courts and Legal Aid Shailesh Vara has received an embarrassing letter from UK Statistics Authority chief Sir Andrew Dilnot...
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Confusing rules governing use of ‘barrister’ title produce their most absurd...
It's illegal to call yourself a barrister when you've never been called to the Bar, but a lack of appetite for enforcing the law means it's possible to do so and avoid sanction. This story doesn't...
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6 qualities that wannabe litigators must possess following the Jackson reforms
The Jackson reforms have placed new demands on lawyers specialising in civil adversarial work. Hardwicke barrister Gemma Witherington tells Bar student Alex Pritchard-Jones about six qualities that...
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Doughty Street’s website is the loser in Amal Alamuddin’s budding friendship...
Top human rights chambers' website goes down every time rookie barrister Amal Alamuddin is pictured with George Clooney. This latest outage appears to have been caused by a huge wave of global internet...
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Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 was shot down by Chinese missile, claims...
Barrister with active practising certificate is confident that he has unravelled mystery of flight MH370. Practising barrister Michael Shrimpton has published a blog post purporting to reveal precise...
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‘I’ve often gone hungry and can’t afford a wig, gown or practitioner...
Baby barrister at civil legal aid set tells of bleak pupillage existence. Amid all the news about cuts to criminal legal aid, it's easy to forget that times are also very hard for practitioners in...
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Oscar Pistorius’ lawyer Barry Roux: the hip hop parodies
Televised murder trial turns South African barrister into cult figure. The star of the Oscar Pistorius murder trial, defence counsel Barry Roux, has become an internet meme, with tributes focusing, in...
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Take a deep breath and do some colouring in
An oldie but a goodie to exacerbate ease the pain of returning to work from the Easter bank holiday — or, in the case of revision-swamped law students, not having a bank holiday at all. Via Office Spam.
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Doughty Street barrister who topped ‘Bar hottie’ list gets engaged to George...
Did legal blog YourBarristerBoyfriend bring human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin and film star together? Few anticipated what was to follow when, in August last year, Doughty Street junior barrister Amal...
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Barrister to stand trial accused of falsely notifying British government of...
Practising barrister faces bomb hoax charges under Section 51(2) of the Criminal Law Act 1977 for Olympics terrorist nuclear attack warning. Former Tanfield Chambers barrister Michael Shrimpton is to...
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Top QC offers George Clooney 14 tips on being married to a barrister
The advice by 11KBW barrister Sean Jones QC — delivered via the #MarriedtotheBar Twitter hashtag — is essential reading for the film star ahead of his wedding to Doughty Street's Amal Alamuddin. This...
View Article9 revision tips from people who have nailed law exams
A group of trainees, lawyers and law lecturers distil their exam preparation wisdom into seven-second Vine clips (click on the top left corner of each image to turn on the sound). Felicity Maxwell,...
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Brighton Pier Tarot reader wows barrister
First you get hit by the law schools selling their barrister dream, then the Tarot Card readers get you... We did some digging and found the relevant reading, which Tarot Card reader "Ivor Fireman" has...
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‘We are not doing a Tooks’ says Argent as it prepares to ‘merge’ with...
Yet more drastic action forced on criminal sets by the legal aid cuts. Argent Chambers will be no more — in name, at least — from next Tuesday after it announced that it is to leave its premises and...
View ArticleKaplan to ditch its Bar Professional Training Course
Kaplan Law School is to discontinue its Bar Professional Course (BPTC) from September 2014. Kaplan says it is "working closely with the Bar Standards Board (BSB) to put in place a range of options for...
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9 charmingly vulgar lawyer personalised number plates
Because it's important that other road users know you're a lawyer. Vulgar! Brilliant! No! Yeah! *Shudders* *Smiles approvingly* Really? Really! Lame Claim! Arghhh! Ye-haa! Jeers Cheers! Narcissistic...
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Why Peckham would be an ideal location for a law school
Positioning itself as cool, unfussy and cheap would have made the doomed Kaplan Law School Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) less vulnerable to competition from bigger rivals. In hindsight, it...
View ArticleThe Mitchell decision and the breakdown of meaning
Following the recent further spate of Mitchell-related decisions, it has been determined after careful study of the ratio in each ruling that judges are simply making this stuff up as they go along. So...
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Would you turn down pupillage at a top chambers to go travelling?
A Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) graduate has penned a blog about declining a top intellectual property set's pupillage offer in order to see the world. Pupillages these days are so rare, and...
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