Tag: News
Run Grayling Run
As a gesture of goodwill, we’ve included* Chris Grayling in our team for the London...
The strange tale of the fake legal journalist
There’s an assumption that the journalists who churn out copy on behalf of corporate-owned legal...
The spelling and grammar shame of Apprentice contestant’s new legal brand
While Dynamo Legal founder Alex Mills has great eyebrows, the 22 year-old entrepreneur – who’s a...
TV Edwards lets paralegals go weeks after shelling out for their police station accreditation training
Exclusive: In the latest sign of how hard law firms are being hit by government...
Newspapers’ categorisation of lawyers: a cut-out-and-keep guide
When The Observer conferred silk upon ‘Loverson’ barrister David Sherborne (who’s not a QC) on...
Five terrible comedy law student videos
As is traditional at this time of year on the other side of the pond,...
Pupillage application system fail – yet again
Update: the Pupillage Gateway deadline has been extended, for a second time, to Thursday 9...
How not to become a smart casualty at a law firm open day
Is smart casual a trap? A law firm “encourages” me to turn up for their...
End of the day round-up
Keir Starmer to step down as Director of Public Prosecutions in October [CPS] UK gov’s...
When tweeting from a law firm Twitter account, be sure not to wish ‘death to all police’
A Canadian criminal lawyer is at the heart of a media storm after several highly...
Separated at birth? ‘Loverson’ barrister David Sherborne and his client Peter Andre
Or perhaps that orange glow is less about genes and more down to, er, grooming…...
Leaked CPS email details security breaches in robing room strewn with 999 tapes, confidential files and deodorant cans
Judging by an email leaked to us over the weekend, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)...
The College of Law has changed…
Some of the more disengaged College University of Law students may have found themselves rather...
Morning round-up: Tuesday 23 April
In the future our police, lawyers and jails will be run by G4S [New Statesman]...
End of the day round-up
Naked rambler Stephen Gough appears nude in court [BBC News] It’s the end of the...
PR inexperience of ‘weirdly silent’ striking criminal barristers could cost them dear
The success – or otherwise – of striking criminal barristers’ campaign to prevent the dismantling...
Hopes of an all-solicitor Masterchef final are dashed
There was a moment in Friday’s night’s Masterchef quarter final when it looked like Morgan...
Morning Round-Up: Monday 22 April
Newspapers name the Leveson barristers who are now an item [Google] Comment: The affair between...
Legal Cheek high five: the week’s most read stories
1. Chat, date or instruct a barrister! 2. ‘The unacknowledged truth about advocacy is that...
End of the day round-up
Judicial Statement: “We have been made aware that members of the Bar and solicitors have...