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...
Category Archives: News
Legal Tumblrs: Because lawyers can do LOLcats too
Tumblr, the home of the animated gif and the LOLcat, is suddenly everywhere following its reported $1.1 billion acquisition by Yahoo. With its reputation for frivolousness, the site has largely been overlooked in favour of WordPress by lawyers in search of a blogging platform. But Tumblr has proved popular with a certain breed of disillusioned law student...
The 10 best #SaveUKJustice images
One of the happy side effects of the #SaveUKJustice campaign is that it has allowed lawyers to showcase their creative sides. The results have often been surreal: from a trainer-wearing Lady Justice (courtesy of the Young Legal Aid Lawyers Group) to doctored images of badgers, 80s TV puppets and Simon Cowell...
Morning round-up: Tuesday 21 May
Sadiq Khan: Legal aid cuts will lead to state-sponsored miscarriages of justice [Comment is free]
7,000 lawyers hit the streets of London [Twitter]
A video investigating the implications of the legal aid reforms proposed by Chris Grayling [Total Politics]
Adam Wagner: Myths and realities about equal marriage [New Statesman]
Abu Qatada to stay behind bars after judge denies him bail [The Guardian]
Liverpool-born judge Sir Brian Leveson succeeds Queen legend Brian May as Liverpool John Moores University Chancellor [Liverpool Echo]
Public has right to know about Boris Johnson's secret lovechild, court rules [The Telegraph]
End of the day round-up
Nick Clegg urges MPs not to "derail" gay marriage plan [BBC News]
Eddie Stobart Airways? [News & Star]
Trainee lawyer in line for payout after being denied a permanent role at City firm which discriminated against her over pregnancy in final stages of her £42,000 contract [Mai Online]
SJ Berwin name poised to vanish as King & Wood merger vote looms [The Lawyer]
Barrister Barbara Hewson to answer questions about her highly controversial Operation Yewtree article [Twitter]
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Legal aid cuts "disaster" for black Londoners, warns lawyer for Stephen Lawrence's family [Evening Standard]
Security firm faces fines for "embarrassing" court delays: Judge blasts company after court made to wait while guards take their lunch break [Mail Online]
Saudi Arabia accepts registration of female lawyer [Law Society Gazette]
‘New Fathers 4 Justice’ set to disrupt London Legal Walk
Protest group New Fathers 4 Justice is promising to send a team of superheroes to confront members of the "Family Law Gravy train" at the London Legal Walk this afternoon...
Taxi for the bar – and the music industry?
The Stobart Group's foray into law may just be the beginning of a campaign for world domination...
