There is chaos at the UK Law Students Association (UKLSA) – whose patrons are Lord Neuberger and Lord Phillips – after the 13 strong student executive quit en masse following a massive bust-up with the body's governors. On Friday, the students posted this message on the UKLSA Facebook wall:
Last month we analysed the "smug smile" and poor posture which blight Lord Neuberger's delivery of judgments. But the UK Supreme Court president is not the only senior judicial figure whose advocacy style strays from Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) textbook norms...
It's not often that you get a member of the legal profession outperforming Justin Bieber on Twitter. But this morning UK Supreme Court chief Lord Neuberger achieved this impressive feat after his suggestion that legal aid cuts could undermine the rule of law sparked a wave of debate on the social network...
The news that the latest three appointments to the Supreme Court are all men means Lady Hale remains the only woman member of the 12 strong bench. As grime collective Boy Better Know would doubtless have put it if they were followers of legal news: "We need some more girls in here: there's too many man, too many many man". And judging by this video, it seems that Lords Neuberger, Sumption, Mance, Hope and Walker agree...
Amid the glow of the UK Supreme Court's psychedelic carpets (the work of Sgt Pepper's album cover designer Peter Blake), former Linklaters trainee Cameron Sim tells me what it has been like to spend the last year working as the judicial assistant to Supreme Court president Lord Neuberger...
Encouraging to see Private Eye making an appearance in the UK Supreme Court Justices' library. Disappointingly, though, Heat was nowhere to be seen. There's more on the Supreme Court this afternoon with an exclusive interview with Lord Neuberger's judicial assistant, who reveals what it's like to work for the president of the highest court in the land.
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