Meet Bowie Jane, an Australian "lawyer by day, pop singer by night" with a host of BBC radio gigs booked in the UK this year. Jane (pictured below) says she practises criminal law, but refuses to disclose which firm she works for or her real name...
Tag Archives: BBC
Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 19 December
Posters of offensive messages on Twitter or Facebook less likely to face criminal charges, under new guidelines set out by Keir Starmer QC [Huffington Post]
Positive reaction so far to the new Twitter and Facebook social media prosecution guidelines from top media lawyers [Twitter]
Online comment crimes: Key cases [BBC News]
Mario Balotelli's legal challenge is latest chapter of mad story [The Independent]
Judges should decide secret courts, government accepts [BBC News]
Thousands of solicitors face losing right to practise after PC renewal failures [Legal Futures]
End Of The Day Round-Up
Grayling sets out plan for culling judicial reviews [Law Society Gazette]
Jon Robins follows the furore over regulation in the legal fraternity [New Law Journal]
Transcript of today's hearing in Litvinenko inquest [Litvinenkoinquest.org via Joshua Rozenberg on Twitter]
Legal warning for tweeters and bloggers [BBC]
US Supreme Court judge Sonia Sotomayor tells how fear of early death affected motherhood decision [ABA Journal]
Major firms join influential 30% Club initiative to boost female partners [Legal Week]
[Picture from Tompride.wordpress.com]
End Of The Day Round-Up
Are magistrates and juries using Google to help them reach their verdicts? [The Telegraph]
SNR Denton, Salans and FMC confirm three-way mega-merger [Legal Week]
Spam text message pair are fined £440,000 [BBC News]
39 Essex Street confirms addition of 24-strong 4-5 Gray's Inn team [The Lawyer]
What “freedom of the press” should mean [New Statesman]
We must have statutory regulation – and liberation – of the press [Head of Legal]
O'Dwyer lawyers used novel legal arrangement to resolve extradition case [The Guardian]
Morning Round-Up: Monday 26 November
"The newspapers will print nothing but Leveson Leveson Leveson this week" [Adam Wagner via Twitter]
...and how it might look [by Tom Webb]
List of highest paid vac schemes [Target Jobs]
If Dominic Grieve’s a goner, fellow barrister Cox fits the brief [Mail Online]
A barrister becomes the judge of her client's sanity [The Telegraph]
Avoiding extinction: reimagining legal services with Mitchell Kowalski [Charon QC]
Rich crooks net vast legal aid sums [BBC]
Younger consumers attracted by idea of legal services from a supermarket [Legal Futures]
End Of The Day Round-Up
Full CPS charging statement for Andy Coulson, Rebecca Brooks and Clive Goodman [CPS Blog]
Pyramid libel [David Banks on Twitter]
Female anti-gay Christian lawyer 'abducted teenage girl to Canada and forced her to have sex on camera' [Mail Online]
Danny Nightingale: the Attorney’s right, Hammond was wrong [Head of Legal]
Oxford college pays tribute to death crash law student [BBC]
High Court dismisses claim against Evening Standard as "attempt at extortion" [The Lawyer]
Morning Round-Up: Monday 19 November
Judicial review 'industry' to be cut as right to challenge public bodies’ decisions curtailed, says PM [The Independent]
John Cooper QC on the problems facing the Bar in 2012 and beyond [Charon QC]
Liberal Democrat barrister wins PCC election … by standing as an independent [The Guardian]
What you can and can't say on social networking sites [BBC]
JRR Tolkien's barrister grandson admits Lord of the Rings trauma [Telegraph]
Rat ace ‘sneers’ at law graduate WAG [The Sun]
Celebrities are less happy than the rest of us says top divorce judge as he warns of curse of Hello! [Mail Online]