Part one of the serialisation of columnist Melanie Phillips' new memoir – in today's Daily Mail – features this dashing photo of her husband, Joshua Rozenberg, back in the seventies...
Category Archives: Journalists
The strange tale of the fake legal journalist
There's an assumption that the journalists who churn out copy on behalf of corporate-owned legal news websites are actual people. But the strange tale of Thomson Reuters legal journalist "Michelle Boatley" suggests that they may, in fact, simply be figments of an editor's imagination...
New Statesman Readers Slam ‘Insolent Bloody Human Rights Lawyers’ Following ‘Shyster’ Barrister’s Pro-Human Rights Blog
Yes, that's New Statesman readers...
1 Crown Office Row barrister Adam Wagner, who also edits the UK Human Rights Blog, has been savaged in the comments section of the New Statesman website for a piece he wrote for the apparently progressive publication...
Guardian Law To Become ‘Semi-Automated’ As Editor Position Is Abolished
This afternoon Guardian Law editor Ros Taylor marked the end of an era when she announced via Twitter that her job is to be "abolished" and Guardian Law to be run instead by a "semi-automated" feed...
Lawyers Unleash Stream Of Anti-Tabloid Bile On The Sun
"Dear @TheSunNewspaper. The Human Rights Act has nothing to do with the EU and the Court of Appeal is not an EU court!" wrote 1 Crown Office Row barrister Adam Wagner yesterday on Twitter.
He was responding to The Sun's "Inhuman Rights" story – which mangled a host of legal facts.
At which point, as Wagner's tweet was retweeted over 50 times, the legal profession's pent-up frustration with Britain's favourite red top began to spill forth in a glorious stream of anti-tabloid bile (some of which is pictured below)...
Court Reporter Suppresses Giggles As She Describes Martial Arts Shopping Trolley Fight That Led To Cowboy Hat Urination Incident
Irish court correspondent Ursula McCarthy has somehow managed to (just about) keep it together as she described an extraordinary sequence of events...
‘I Look Forward To Meeting You On 31 Sept As Well’: Cambridge Law Student Taunts ‘Sloppy’ Law Firm Grad Recruiters
As a strategy to land a job, Sebastian Salek's decision to pen an article for The Independent – published yesterday – lampooning "sloppy" graduate recruiters seems rather risky. But there's no denying that the Cambridge law student makes some good points. Such as...
