Author Archives: Legal Cheek

Morning round-up: Wednesday 19 June

By Legal Cheek | June 19, 2013 8:18 am

Legal Aid Question Time [Twitter]

The highlights of Legal Aid Question Time, including Lord McNally's refusal to retract comment that some lawyers are being "hysterical" [John Mack Blog]

84-year-old judge sexually harassed his assistant who was fifty years younger, lawsuit claims [Mail Online]

Fighting for human rights in Zimbabwe [BBC World Service]

Mother sues solicitor for £15m over "millions lost" in divorce [The Telegraph]

Legal aid cuts will drive out the best lawyers, Supreme Court president warns [The Guardian]

Neuberger: Cross-examination of witnesses in some cases could be dispensed with to save money in the court system [BBC News]

An interview with the lawyer representing Bin Laden's son-in-law [Vice]

Image by Shoaib M Khan

End of the day round-up

By Legal Cheek | June 18, 2013 5:14 pm

Allen & Overy partner parachuted in to lead Co-op rescue as new legal chief [Legal Week]

The dos and don'ts of examination-in-chief [Young Lawyer]

Lawyer "execution": Michael Chudley jailed for murder of solicitor James Ward [The Independent]

Will the "Harvard Law (Just Kidding)" range spawn an Oxbridge spin off? [Twitter]

Harvard Law (Just Kidding)-wear. Is there an Oxbridge one of these? pic.twitter.com/KfjosgMAeo

— Legal Cheek (@legalcheek) June 18, 2013

Porn laws "allow animals and dead people more rights than women" say Mumsnet and campaign groups [Huffington Post]

Olympic champion rower Sophie Hosking to join Freshfields as a trainee [The Telegraph]

Part-time partners: why the legal profession is changing [The Guardian]

Morning round-up: Tuesday 18 June

By Legal Cheek | June 18, 2013 8:20 am

Former Arsenal and England star Ian Wright mocks BPP's logo [Twitter]

Oxford has lowest number of state-educated undergrads [Lawyer2B]

5 reasons why being a lawyer is really not as cool as I thought [Bitter Lawyer]

Is the outrage over Stuart Hall’s 15-month sentence justified? [New Statesman]

The tech company lawyers who stand between you and government snoops [Bloomberg Businessweek]

Better to be safe than sorry [Legal Bizzle on Twitter]

Woman opposite so worried about the low character of fellow passengers that she took her bottle of coke to the toilet.

— Legal Bizzle (@LegalBizzle) June 18, 2013

A McDonald's breakfast, some lectures, then in bed for 7pm: a day in the life of a law student [The Legal Eagle]

Computer expert who injured his index finger sues for £150,000 compensation because he can't send text messages [Mail Online]

Event: The minority lawyers' seminar — career development and social media [Bar Council]

End of the day round-up

By Legal Cheek | June 17, 2013 4:29 pm

Photographers invited to take snaps of the Old Bailey's "Dead Man’s Walk" [Law Society Gazette]

What will you earn? Salary information for the top UK law firms [Lex100]

Barefoot lawyer says Chinese pressure forced him out of NYU [The Guardian]

Stuart Hall jailed for 15 months for sex assaults [BBC News]

The remarks of Judge Anthony Russell QC in the sentencing of Stuart Hall [Judiciary.gov.uk]

Too much information [CourtNewsUK on Twitter]

'Boxer shorts or pants?' defence QC asks her client as he gives evidence. 'Pants,' he says. 'Want to know why?' 'No,' she demurs.

— CourtNewsUK (@CourtNewsUK) June 17, 2013

Man arrested over "Fuck your shitty town" reply to speeding ticket [Jalopnik]

Hot 100 lawyer Tinu Adeshile overcomes fear of heights to climb Ben Nevis [Wandsworth Guardian]

Image by Alan Williams Photography

Morning round-up: Monday 17 June

By Legal Cheek | June 17, 2013 8:11 am

Did a lawyer really bill 9,000 hours in one year? [Lawyer Watch]

Is there no end to fat cat lawyers' hypocrisy? [Daily Mail]

Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng hire his 'n' hers legal teams [The Independent]

Google legal chief: There are some things no one should be able to Google [The Telegraph]

Nick Cohen: Natural justice faces a savage loss of innocence [The Observer]

Solicitor aims to qualify as doctor, aged 74 [Sunday Times]

Twitter's top lawyer "doesn’t give a shit" when the government comes knocking with demands and intimidation [The Verge]

Judges have said they will go back to practising as lawyers because their pensions are to be cut [Law Society Gazette]

Legal Cheek high five: The week’s most read stories

By Legal Cheek | June 15, 2013 12:17 pm

1. ‘Criminal barrister’ ranked 7th sexiest job ever by GQ Magazine

2. Wannabe lawyer in vile Dunkin’ Donuts rant

3. Legal misspellings: 7 howlers

4. Bristol Uni law student who swore at police avoids criminal record after representing himself in court

5. ‘No confidential material used’ by trainee who sold ‘inside tips’, says Freshfields

End of the day round-up

By Legal Cheek | June 14, 2013 4:51 pm

Dog sits through eight-day Crown Court trial [Bournemouth Echo]

Glenn Greenwald: On PRISM, partisanship and propaganda [The Guardian]

Sex with animals in Sweden will no longer be legal from next year [Huffington Post]

Grayling's in the Inn crowd [Twitter]

Just discovered that Mr Grayling has been made an Honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn. What an honour.

— Max Hardy (@maxbarrister) June 14, 2013

Who will be our Lehman Brothers? [Law Society Gazette]

Could the Japanese teen eyeball-licking craze doesn't spread to British lawyers? [Buzzfeed]

Scots partners brand Ashurst launch as "unfair" and "anti-competitive" [Legal Week]

Stephen Lawrence killers received £425,000 in legal aid [BBC News]

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