The Bar Council has extended the pupillage application deadline for a second time after disastrous new website Pupillage Gateway stopped working again today...
Tag Archives: Bar Council
Blogosphere Bust-Up: Author Of Anti-Cab Rank Rule Report Hits Back After Bar Council Chief Takes A Swipe
Bar Council chair Maura McGowan QC doesn't think much of the recent Legal Services Board (LSB) report on the Bar's cab rank rule (which basically suggests that the rule which many barristers hold dear to their hearts is more about money than helping people).
Indeed, McGowan thinks so little of the report that she's not sure if it's real, referring to it in inverted commas as a "report" in a letter to members of the Bar published yesterday on the Criminal Bar Association's blog. The Bar Council supremo doesn't stop there, proceeding to take a swipe at the report's authors, Professors John Flood and Morten Hviid...
Bar Council’s ‘Modern’ Replacement For Pupillage Portal Isn’t Looking So Modern…
When you set your standards as low as Pupillage Portal (the recently-retired pupillage application website), it doesn't take much to come up with an improvement. Sadly, this seems to be the philosophy guiding the development of its replacement, Pupillage Gateway.
OK, it's not quite that bad. But it's bad...
The 4 Bits Of The Bar Council Chair’s Inaugural Speech That Matter For Junior Barristers And Bar Wannabes
Last night’s speech by incoming Bar Council chair Maura McGowan QC was full of diplomatic turns of phrase. But make no mistake, it contains some strong warning messages to rookie barristers hopeful of pursuing careers in publicly-funded areas...
Terrible Job Application Website Pupillage Portal To Close – And Be Replaced By ‘Pupillage Gateway’
Error-prone pupillage application website Pupillage Portal is to be put out of its misery – and replaced with a new site called 'Pupillage Gateway' from March next year.
End Of The Day Round-Up
Released: Bar Barometer, trends in the profile of the Bar [Bar Council]
Internet access is a right, judges rule [The Telegraph]
But...internet access is not a 'human right' – for perverts or anyone else [The Telegraph]
Fantastic spoof lawyer website [bobduljohnsonattorneyatlaw.biz]
Man who put cat in tumble drier jailed [The Independent]
Intern just happens to be beautiful 22-year-old woman [The Onion]
Female genital mutilation: time for a prosecution [The Guardian]
DLA Piper puts 251 in consultation across UK as firm mulls Glasgow closure [The Lawyer]
Unpopular Twitter accounts could escape prosecution for 'grossly offensive' tweets [The Telegraph]
The Bar Conference In Tweets: Most Retweeted, Most Eye-Catching, Most Amusing
Amid the mutual back-slapping at Saturday's 27th annual Bar conference, there was gossip, intrigue and subversive humour – much of which was relayed to the world via Twitter by the hordes of smartphone-bearing attendees...
