Tag: BBC

Barrister Who Named Lord McAlpine On His Blog Removes Post And Braces Himself For Possible Legal Action

One of the bloggers who named Lord McAlpine in the wake of Newsnight’s report wrongly...

Nov 12 2012 2:19pm

Morning Round-Up: Friday 9 November

Star of lawyer documentary The Briefs Franklin Sinclair cheats death in ‘freak waves’ horror on...

Nov 9 2012 9:12am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Leaving work on a Friday [#WhatShouldWeCallMe] What to do about trolls? [The Justice Gap] Twists...

Nov 2 2012 6:09pm

Morning Round-Up: Thursday 1 November

Solicitor aims to be UK Scrabble champion [BBC] Society of Black Lawyers’ Peter Herbert on...

Nov 1 2012 9:28am

Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 30 November

Legal aid cheats targeted by Ministry of Justice [BBC] Society of Black Lawyers calls on...

Oct 30 2012 9:07am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Berlusconi sentenced to four years in jail [Sky News] but quickly reduced to one [BBC]...

Oct 26 2012 6:23pm

‘The Chances You Don’t Take Are The Ones You Regret’

Ed note: This is the first in a series of posts where leading members of...

Oct 26 2012 10:20am

End Of The Day Round-Up

How I was fooled by fake QC [Official statement of Mervyn Barrett OBE on his...

Oct 24 2012 5:32pm

End Of The Day Round-Up

Campaign team of PCC candidate Mervyn Barrett (who has rather a lot of Twitter followers)...

Oct 22 2012 6:14pm

End Of The Day Round-Up

Gay couple win Berkshire B&B refusal case [BBC] Nick Griffin tweets gay B&B couple’s home...

Oct 18 2012 5:45pm

Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 16 October

Jan Moir: Manchester Uni law graduate John Whaite is “unpredictable but with flashes of baking...

Oct 16 2012 7:03am

End Of the Day Round Up

Dechert’s Miriam Gonzalez v 39 Essex Street’s Justine Thornton [Mail Online] Manchester Metropolitan University law...

Oct 11 2012 5:35pm

End Of The Day Round-Up

The Who guitarist Pete Townshend “would have leapt out and killed” prosecuting QC [BBC] “I...

Oct 9 2012 5:23pm

End Of The Day Round-Up

DPP to tackle troll abuse with Twitter and Facebook chiefs [Evening Standard] Law student sent...

Oct 5 2012 5:39pm

Great British Bake Off Star John Whaite Rejected Eversheds To Pursue Baking Dream

This evening John Whaite will fight it out for a place in the semi-finals of...

Oct 2 2012 4:20pm

Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 2 October

Futurologist: firms starting to embrace new ways of working as ‘legal factories’ loom [Legal Futures]...

Oct 2 2012 8:30am

End Of The Day Round-Up

How barrister-to-be gave a group of disruptive children one last chance of an education in...

Sep 27 2012 5:56pm

Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 26 September

Top lawyer arrested for ‘raping two women at knifepoint at different massage parlours’ [Mail Online]...

Sep 26 2012 8:29am

Morning Round-Up: Monday 24 September

Lawyer from ITV’s The Briefs in ‘Asian axis’ email jibe storm [Manchester Evening News] How...

Sep 24 2012 8:23am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Grayling shows his mettle as Justice Secretary [The Spectator] Lawyers face tax dodging scrutiny from...

Sep 18 2012 5:25pm

End Of The Day Round-Up

Barrister who will represent Wills and Kate in Paris acted for John Galliano over racist...

Sep 17 2012 5:31pm