Tag Archives: Bitter Lawyer

End Of The Day Round-Up

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Plans by Surrey University law school to "normalise" exam marks sparks a backlash from staff [Times Higher Education Supplement]

Russian judge faces disciplinary action after he was caught on camera napping and playing with his mobile phone during a trial that ended with him sending a man to a penal colony for five years [The Telegraph]

Is it OK for a lawyer to marry another lawyer? [Bitter Lawyer]

Eversheds to cull 166 jobs across the UK and Asia [Everyone]

UN prosecutors demand stiffer war crimes sentence for Charles Taylor [The Telegraph]

Promising young law graduate killed in A9 crash [STV]

Morning Round-Up: Friday 21 December

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Julian Assange: "democracy is the sum of our resistance" [Head of Legal]

'Julian Assange's speech, as it sounded in the street outside taxis, hecklers and all. (It gets better after a minute)' [Sound Cloud via Carl Gardner]

How the UK Border Agency nearly blew Robin Hood Airport "sky high" – a calamity at the "Twitter Joke Trial" airport of which you will not have heard [New Statesman]

5 people guaranteed to be at your office party [Bitter Lawyer]

MoD pays out millions to Iraqi torture victims [The Guardian]

How gossip transformed the legal industry [Details]

End Of The Day Round-Up

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Boris: "If you want to take him to cleaners, take him to cleaners in London" [The Lawyer]

Legal Cheek editor hit by cruising slur in wake of College of Law cottaging story [Jon Harman via Twitter]

‘Think like a lawyer’: the game [LexisNexis]

Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice, to retire next summer [Judiciary of England and Wales]

One Judge down. Who is next in line to be lord chief justice? [The Guardian]

How to spend time with non-lawyers during the holidays [Bitter Lawyer]

Locking up prisoners for life does not breach human rights, judges rule [The Telegraph]