Author: katie-king

Why I regret my magic circle training contract

Career mistakes: Legal Cheek meets a soon-to-be NQ, a paralegal and an LPC student

Jun 20 2017 10:04am

‘Robot lawyer’ created by Cambridge students will now answer your legal problems via Facebook Messenger

LawBot X predicts claim outcomes and boasts 71% success rating

Jun 19 2017 1:42pm

13 things that happened during the Supreme Court’s Facebook livestream

Justices talk Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Liz Truss and much more in video interview

Jun 16 2017 1:10pm

I got in trouble for arguing with a pro-life campaigner at school, now I’m a barrister in the Northern Irish abortion law case

Supreme Court ruled in Jeremy Hunt's favour this week, now all eyes are on Strasbourg

Jun 16 2017 9:12am

Law lectures will not survive much longer, says Oxford academic

Make way for the internet age of legal education

Jun 15 2017 9:04am

Northern Irish women NOT entitled to abortions on NHS, Supreme Court rules

Landmark case decided by majority of 3:2

Jun 14 2017 11:02am

Solicitor super-exam: Students able to take LPC and GDL into the 2030s

Exclusive: Regulator backs ‘lengthy transition period’, as lawyers speculate advocacy’s place on SQE

Jun 13 2017 2:04pm

The standard of proof in solicitor AND barrister disciplinary hearings should be lowered, says SRA

Days after Leigh Day lawyers cleared on 19 misconduct charges

Jun 13 2017 11:00am

Lawyers rush to defend Leigh Day after solicitors cleared of 19 misconduct charges

One said it was ‘a shameful political witchhunt’

Jun 12 2017 12:49pm

CEO of BPP Law School steps down

Land law barrister at the university’s helm for 20 years

Jun 9 2017 4:42pm

General election: Human Rights Act ‘safer now than it has been for years’, says top LSE human rights professor Conor Gearty

Exclusive: Conor Gearty tells Legal Cheek why he thinks our rights are secure under brand new Tory-led coalition

Jun 9 2017 4:11pm

What the hell does this election result mean for Brexit?

Social media rush as lawyers debate hung parliament’s impact

Jun 9 2017 11:58am

Over a third of new law students are from ethnic minority backgrounds

Law far more ethnically diverse than other humanities-based subjects

Jun 9 2017 9:19am

Lawyers divided: Has Theresa May made a U-turn on human rights?

Keeping the Human Rights Act is a Tory manifesto pledge

Jun 7 2017 12:01pm

There are rumours that Education Secretary Justine Greening will be our next Lord Chancellor

A straight swap with Liz Truss? Joshua Rozenberg and LBC’s Iain Dale speculate

Jun 7 2017 10:24am