The end of the day round-up

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By Thomas Connelly on

The Bar pays tribute to Hardwicke Building barrister Steven Weddle who died in his sleep aged 59 over the weekend [Twitter]

Tottering Law Society sends tremors industry-wide [The Lawyer]

“Truly shocking” that the private-school educated and affluent middle class still run Britain, says Sir John Major [The Telegraph]

Clifford Chance triples its intake of black, Pakistani and Bangladeshi trainees [Lawyer2B]

Barrister, 23, found dead in Thames “was on the cusp of a great life” [Evening Standard]

Big Law: Sign of the times [Lawyer Watch]

“The BPTC admissions aptitude test introduced by the BSB seems to have achieved nothing” [Legal Cheek comments]

Heard in court…[Facebook]

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