Tag Archives: The Independent

End Of The Day Round-Up

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Man crushed by a falling William Hill shop sign in Camden was a lawyer with Minter Ellison [Evening Standard]

"There goes my knighthood": District Judge pays thief's £1 debt from his own pocket in protest against compensation rules [Mail Online]

Cobbetts' administration: full coverage [Google]

SRA "doesn't have responsibility for trainees" at Cobbetts [Lawyer2B]

Bob Dylan and Michael Jackson's pioneering lawyer dead at 81 [Female First]

Devil's Advocate Giovanni di Stefano was "not a lawyer at all", court hears [The Independent]

Judge rejects Apple demand for MORE money from arch-rival Samsung in $1bn patent war [Mail Online]

End Of The Day Round-Up

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Comic book hero Judge Dredd "might be gay" [The Independent]

Metaphor of the week: "The Law Society is as useful as a marzipan dildo, especially when it comes to City law" [nob]

Being a general counsel: a dream job, or a nightmare? [Above the Law]

The Good Wife: series 4 episode 1 – review [The Telegraph]

Equal marriage on the way as Bill published [UK Human Rights Blog]

Pull up your socks, Johnny Foreigner [Law Society Gazette]

Eversheds chief explains that "everything we’ve done has had culture at the heart" as news breaks that 166 staff at the firm face the axe [The Lawyer]

Morning Round-Up: Thursday 24 January

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Cambridge law student: Julian Assange should not be given a voice by the Oxford Union [The Independent]

A QC's reply to Chris Grayling [Mark Harries on Twitter]

Selfridges Faces legal action over selling raw milk; court case will also see farmer prosecuted [Huffington Post UK]

Judge blasts 'sexist laws' that left woman destitute after split from partner: She lost her home when 30-year relationship ended [Mail Online]

Recorder removed for "bringing judiciary into disrepute" [The Lawyer]

Career alternatives for lawyers: lego brick artist [Bloomberg Law via YouTube]

Morning Round-Up: Friday 18 January

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A lawyer’s amazingly detailed analysis of Bilbo’s contract in The Hobbit [Wired]

Former Leeds University law student to defend Bo Xilai in court [The Telegraph]

Girlfriend of Reddit co-founder who hanged himself says US legal system mercilessly hounded him to his death [Mail Online]

War on judicial review (sort of) [UK Human Rights Blog]

Circuits call heads of chambers meetings to consider QASA boycott [Legal Futures]

Kate Winslet's husband Ned RocknRoll is not a public figure, says judge [The Independent]

Morning Round-Up: Monday 14 January

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Allen & Overy chief backs apprenticeships  "so long as standards are upheld" [The Independent]

Drop out fails in bid to auction his name on eBay – despite dropping price [Thomson Reuters]

January Blues [Jamie Anderson on Twitter]

From law firm managing partner to organising activity tours in southern Tuscany [Manchester Evening News]

Solicitors 'ran immigration scam arranging thousands of sham marriages by submitting touching love stories about couples who'd only just met' [Mail Online]

US Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor sold her wedding ring to pay her divorce lawyer [The Atlantic]

End Of The Day Round-Up

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Lap dancer loses sacking claim [The Independent]

Matrix silk overturns Stringfellows stripper decision [The Lawyer]

Barrister at 4 New Square Chambers fails in race discrimination appeal [Bailii via Adam Wagner]

University of Leicester law graduate lives on £1 a day to help tackle poverty in Nicaragua [24Dash]

What's more entertaining than a law firm rejection letter riddled with typos? [Above the Law]