Durham University law students' attempt to tell the gender of a judge on the basis of their judgment alone has yielded a success rate of just 46%.
The experiment — a legal version, if you will, of the famous Pepsi Challenge (a blind Pepsi v Coke taste test) — was conducted following prompting by Supreme Court President Lord Neuberger amid controversy at the lack of female judges...
This is my 36th year at the Bar and things have changed a hell of a lot for the better. Although if Grayling's wicked proposals to hand over our justice system to the corporate blood suckers come to pass, the independent criminal Bar will be summarily executed without trial and without mitigation within two years, writes barrister and former Tory MP Jerry Hayes in the latest post in the 'If I knew then what I know now' series.
The truth is that, apart from the minor irritation that the government doesn't want to pay us and that we are all hocked up to the eyeballs, being a criminal barrister is the best job in the world. I can't think of any more enjoyable way of spending a day than knocking nine bells out of a less than truthful witness, making a jury laugh or cry, and then popping into El Vinos for a few vats of claret...
The atmosphere in Bristol Magistrates' court number three became rather heated last week as District Judge Simon Cooper and solicitor Peter Balchin locked horns in dramatic fashion. It got so bad at one point that Cooper asked for the names of every other lawyer in the courtroom to be recorded by the usher in case they'd need to be called as witnesses at a future hearing...
Last month, retiring Court of Appeal judge Sir Alan Ward (pictured) used his penultimate judgment to deliver a wistful nautical-themed allegory about departing the Royal Courts of Justice.
It wasn't the first time that he'd made lawyers smile. Here are ten of his best lines...
'Warring bankers'
"This case involves a number of – and here I must not fall into Dr Spooner’s error – warring bankers." [Inforrm]
The Court of Appeal’s recent judgement in AAA (by her litigation friend BBB) v Associated Newspapers Limited regarding the paternity of a child born out of wedlock to someone "in high public office" is supposedly anonymised...
In a departure from the traditional "tap on the shoulder" method of recruitment, applicants for the highest judicial post in the land are being asked to submit a 2,000-word essay in order to demonstrate their intellectual and analytical abilities...
As he sentenced the actor who voiced Charlie Brown in cartoon Peanuts (for threatening his former girlfriend and stalking her plastic surgeon), San Diego Superior Court judge Dwayne Moring just couldn't resist it...
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