Tag: News
The roaring eBay trade in law school notes
Following our recent story about the Kennedys solicitor who’s flogging her old GDL and LPC...
Morning round-up: Wednesday 11 December
Three murderers were sentenced to life imprisonment on one day. The minimum terms set were...
The end of the day round-up
The Bar’s worst chambers profile pics [Your Barrister Boyfriend] The first same-sex weddings in England...
Lawyers aren’t supposed to fall for Nigerian inheritance scams…
A US lawyer is at the centre of a storm of legal blogosphere ridicule after...
Frontman of company seeking to ‘revolutionise’ criminal law makes grammatically incorrect bestiality slur against bemused barrister
Last night on Twitter the public face of a heavily-hyped new legal market entrant launched...
Morning round-up: Tuesday 10 December
Are we in England too paternalistic to our juries? [David Allen Green on Facebook] The...
The end of the day round-up
Boat race protester Trenton Oldfield saved by non-Oxbridge lawyer [The Independent] 1,000 crime solicitors to...
Kingston Crown Court unveils a lunch deal of such complexity that even lawyers can’t understand it
Can anyone decipher the meaning of Kingston Crown Court’s incredibly complicated lunch deal?
Is this the most whirlwind pupillage application schedule ever?
Several pupillage hopefuls have alerted us to the incredibly fast pupillage application schedule being operated...
The number of students enrolling on the LPC is down 8.4% this year — with the course on average only 44% full
Amid continued concerns about the numbers of training contracts available, fewer students are doing the...
Morning round-up: Monday 9 December
Law student spots cockroach in Subway while eating sandwich [Manchester Evening News] Don’t have children...
Legal Cheek high five: the week’s most read stories
1. Law student sends multiple-claused note to neighbours warning them of party 2. The QC...
The end of the day round-up
Christian woman loses legal challenge over right not to work on Sundays [The Independent] Women...
‘I was offered pupillage at the second chambers I applied to’
Unlike his friend, who crashed his hired Jaguar into the chambers where he was interviewing,...
The story of a law lecture: in 15 (possibly ill-judged) smartphone photos
The law students of England and Wales have tweeted some amazing pictures of what they...
Morning round-up: Thursday 5 December
Booker, Hemming and the “forced caesarian” case: a masterclass in Flat Earth news [Head of...
The end of the day round-up
Solicitor who attacked her own parents could face jail after fleecing Law Society out of...
Podcast: How barristers can make an impact on social mobility
We gathered together Young Barristers’ Committee chair Hannah Kinch, Citizenship Foundation programme manager Paul Bower...
Chair of Young Barristers’ Committee says she’d still advise students without wealthy parents to go to the criminal Bar
EXCLUSIVE: Young Barristers’ Committee of the Bar Council chair Hannah Kinch has made a robust...
Just when you thought national newspaper picture editors couldn’t select a more inappropriate law photo…
They’ve all been at it lately. Last month the Guardian committed the relatively minor offence...
Morning round-up: Wednesday 4 December
Attorney General to publish guidance on Twitter to help prevent social media users from committing...