The growing separation between recovering London and the struggling rest of the country poses an interesting question for wannabe lawyers: is it currently an advantage to be studying in the capital — with its universities' links to top international law firms — than in the relatively moribund regions?
Recent Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) law graduate Lewis Powers (pictured above with Legal Cheek's Kevin Poulter) reckons it is...
Ryanair's racy calendar advert featuring stewardesses in bikinis is "banned" by Spanish judge for being sexist [Mail Online]
Legal aid cuts spark Libor case fears [Financial Times]
French ban on Islamic face veil challenged in court [The Telegraph]
Lawyers don’t make enough money to afford house husbands [Above the Law]
Court of Appeal calls on Supreme Court to resolve conflict between UK and Strasbourg law [UK Human Rights Blog]
Bank worker "punched" the lawyer he allegedly killed [The Herald]
If we can't even send the Boat Race saboteur back to Oz because it's "racist", who can we deport? [Mail Online]
Australia's top court overrules gay marriage in capital: couples who have wed will have their marriages annulled as unconstitutional [The Telegraph]
Three murderers were sentenced to life imprisonment on one day. The minimum terms set were 18, 27 and 40 years. Why were they so different? [BBC News]
Stan Collymore contacts police after again suffering racist abuse on Twitter [Mail Online]
UK bribery trial collapses in blow to anti-fraud agency [Reuters]
Law firm's former client jailed for threatening to trash their offices [Belfast Telegraph]
British suspect extradited to US after eight-year legal battle admits supporting terrorists [The Mirror]
The death knell of the LPC [Nigel Hudgson]
Accountants get green light to enter legal sector [Legal Futures]
"Are women equal but different?" [Law Society Gazette]
Time conversion chart: lawyers to law students [Bitter Lawyer]
Last night on Twitter the public face of a heavily-hyped new legal market entrant launched an extraordinary — and completely unfounded — personal attack on a barrister who had tweeted a Daily Mirror article about his past.
Are we in England too paternalistic to our juries? [David Allen Green on Facebook]
The seven top legal stories of 2014 [The New Yorker]
Courts throw out lawsuits that pushed for chimps to be given the same rights as humans [Mail Online]
Bar Council President elect Nicholas Lavender QC delivers inaugural address [Bar Council]
More law firms should be named after bands [Twitter]
More law firms should be named after bands... pic.twitter.com/5ON17CkITq
— Legal Cheek (@legalcheek) December 9, 2013
Specialized sparks cyclist fury after café Roubaix legal threats [Huffington Post]
Law student with history of mental health problems detained after trying to drown a man in Glasgow [BBC News]
Legal eagles? Why lawyers love golf [CNN]
Booker, Hemming and the “forced caesarian” case: a masterclass in Flat Earth news [Head of Legal]
The lawyer's guide to surviving Christmas [Management Today]
"Strasbourg not superior to British courts" says Lord Judge [The Telegraph]
An visual interpretation of the merger between legal aid giant Tuckers and Robin Murray & Co [Twitter]
Congratulations @FMStuckers for Tuckers "merger" with Robin Murray and Co pic.twitter.com/7eSq4Zzk3r
— Robert Hardy-McBride (@Robert_HM) December 4, 2013
Human rights for homo sapiens’ closest relatives? [UK Human Rights Blog]
Derby legal staff redundant as CPS offices are moved to Nottingham [Derby Telegraph]
Lawyer acting for East Timor is raided by Australian agents [The Independent]
The essential cases every law student should know [The Guardian]
We gathered together Young Barristers' Committee chair Hannah Kinch, Citizenship Foundation programme manager Paul Bower and Hardwicke barrister Charles Bagot — and grilled them about the Bar's relationship with corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Pictured above, in order, from left to right, Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge, Kinch, Bower and Bagot.
Attorney General to publish guidance on Twitter to help prevent social media users from committing contempt of court by commenting inappropriately on criminal cases [BBC News]
"I am a 28-year-old junior barrister and I live at home with my mother" [The Telegraph]
Law firm blames hackers for creating racist advert using white man dressed as "Asian" caricature and uploading it to YouTube [Mail Online]
Amazon's unmanned drone delivery services faces legal problems before taking off [Mail Online]
A Devon food producer was on Cameron's trade trip to China. But where were the law firms? [Law Society Gazette]
"An elderly trouserless bowler-hatted man cycles along Fleet Street" [Twitter]
Isn't this the wonderful Master Rose, of the Queen's Bench Division? & he's wearing shorts, @Telegraphpics! pic.twitter.com/mo9hHNu6F4
— James Watthey (@JamesWatthey) December 3, 2013
John Terry's father appears in court to deny claims he headbutted man during racist street attack [Mail Online]
Linklaters to introduce merit element to associate lockstep [The Lawyer]
Criminal barristers announce half-day refusal to work in legal aid protest [The Guardian]
11 criminals who were extraordinarily bad at crime [Metro]
Kaplan Law School head of careers Gemma Baker (pictured below) tells Legal Cheek's Alex Aldridge how Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) students can secure a pupillage before they are called to the Bar
The Cycling Solicitor: Case dropped against London cyclist who crossed red light for safety [The Guardian]
Are law schools facing an existential crisis? [Solicitors Journal]
Tory MP raking in £750,000 a year from second job as a barrister says we are lucky to have him [The Mirror]
Bob Dylan faces French legal inquiry over Croat remarks [BBC News]
Shailesh Vara calls on legal aid “realists” to step forward [Legal Futures]
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story, eh? [Pink Tape]
Ex-Times lawyer to face tribunal over claims he allowed court to be misled [The Guardian]
Barrister to sue police watchdog for "failing to give her a job interview" [Manchester Evening News]
Nonhuman rights group sues to make primate a legal person [Mail Online]
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