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Barrister who claimed Nazis wanted to nuke Queen at Olympics is found guilty
Michael Shrimpton facing jail for communicating false information, as previous conviction for possession of indecent images of children is revealed This afternoon at Southwark Crown Court a jury has...
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Irate Lord Justice Jackson uses Court of Appeal judgment to issue lawyers...
Top judge snaps after wading through “35 pages of rambling prolixity” Aghast at the poor standard of modern legal writing in the higher courts, one of the country’s leading judges has gone...
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Bar regulator suspends bomb hoax and child porn barrister
The Bar Standards Board issues statement minutes ago saying it had already taken action against Michael Shrimpton following his conviction earlier this year for possession of indecent images of...
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Joshua Rozenberg photo-bombs Andrew Mitchell at the RCJ following ‘Plebgate’...
Days after bagging yet another honorary doctorate, BBC Law in Action presenter is in the news again Auntie’s legal man gets everywhere. One moment Joshua Rozenberg — the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Law...
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Review: ‘The Dog’— a lawyer howls for freedom in Dubai
A former London barrister has written a witty and entertaining tale of ex-pat life in the psychologically confusing emirate With the kerfuffle that is the literary love-in around the Mann Booker Prize...
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Garden Court barrister walks into a lamppost — Twitter goes wild
Social media is watching In days gone by a barrister could walk into a lamppost on his way to court and expect his misfortune to remain relatively private. Not anymore, of course. Trial in Croydon...
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Lawyers help out London start-ups with free advice session at the Google Campus
Alex Aldridge takes notes as Hogan Lovells, Hardwicke and the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives assist young entrepreneurs at Legal Cheek‘s pro bono clinic Despite spending the past hour and a...
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Litigant-in-person surgeon wows Court of Appeal with ‘high quality’ advocacy
Doctor’s performance “would have done credit to an experienced member of the bar” There is a special place in hell reserved for the litigant-in-person who believes that his or her latent genius...
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Tory councillor pleads not guilty to faking law degree and bar course...
Monika Juneja — who claimed to be a barrister despite never having been called to the bar — to fight charges against her A Conservative councillor who is awaiting trial for fraud after Legal Cheek...
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Ex-St Johns Buildings barrister goes on the run after police seek to question...
Crimewatch appeal launched after Sheffield criminal barrister Desmond Rosario fails to turn up to Magistrates’ Court A barrister who until recently worked at a top northern chambers has disappeared...
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Bristol chambers axes pupillage place for next year — after wannabes had applied
Queen Square set’s application required a week’s worth of toil — and then the pupillage was cancelled A Bristol-based barristers’ chambers has pulled the plug at the last minute on its 2015 pupillage...
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Sheffield criminal barrister arrested after successful Crimewatch appeal
Barrister Desmond Rosario arrested last night and set to appear before magistrates today on a serious sexual assault charge Legal Cheek reported yesterday that Rosario had failed to appear at Leicester...
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Law chiefs battle spooks over client privilege
Bar associations and law societies across the UK line up to wave two fingers at security services and rozzers over Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act UK legal profession leaders set themselves on a...
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Law students bag first win for university pro bono projects as murder...
High judicial praise for Cardiff’s Innocence Project in a case that also sees a “hot” barrister shoot back into the limelight Media references to lawyers tend to swing between “fat cats” and “legal aid...
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Newbie Shadow Solicitor-General takes Twitter fire for getting cold feet over...
When on the backbenches, barrister Karl Turner wouldn’t shut up about the disastrous demise of the system; now he’s a bit quieter For a lesson in Machiavellian politics de nos jours, look no further...
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Barristers extol delights of down-market shopping for Christmas booze
Lawyer wine experts recommend two German pile ‘em high supermarkets for deals on fizz and other fine wines Young barristers in certain practice areas don’t need to be reminded that times are tough —...
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Shadow Solicitor-General dismisses suggestions he made a ‘Thornberry-style’...
“Please stick to driving trains” comment comes just weeks after “white van man” Twitter storm Karl Turner has been part of Labour’s front-line law officer team for only days, but the Shadow...
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All bets are off for the best legal profession Christmas tree of 2014
Now this is a law-themed Christmas tree Congratulations to Newcastle corporate law firm Muckle, which has created by far the best legal profession Christmas tree of the year. Its law book-based work of...
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Doughty Street junior barrister crowned ‘Most Fascinating Person Of 2014’
Can you guess which one it is? Amal Clooney’s online CV glitters with big name cases — from Tymoshenko v Ukraine to Sweden v Assange. It’s pretty impressive stuff for a barrister who was only called to...
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A solution to the Band Aid lyrics controversy: apply them to lawyers
As the ‘Do they know it’s Christmas’ single is criticised for its “cultural ignorance”, WaitroseLaw wonders if its message would be better-suited to stressed-out lawyers Band Aid 30: the lawyer parody...
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