Tag Archives: The Telegraph

Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 30 January

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Lawyers for 9/11 suspects ask to be locked up at Guantánamo for two nights in order to understand conditions in which accused are held [The Guardian]

Hugh Bonneville lined up to play barrister with Tourette's Syndrome in new film [The Mirror]

Judge says £420,000 racism claim can stand, after 13 years of 'Dickensian' wrangling [The Telegraph]

First woman to be put to death in two years receives last minute stay of execution as judge postpones her lethal injection by 60-days [Mail Online]

The Cab Rank Rule – what is it good for? (absolutely nothing?) [NotABarrister]

Grandson of law lord appointed deputy leader of North Norfolk District Council at age 22 [EDP24]

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: Friday 25 January

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From Wolverhampton Poly to video games law glamour: How neighbour's invention of a computer game propelled solicitor Robert Bond on an incredible journey [Financial Times]

Earl of Cardigan 'spat and threw stones' at barristers' clerk [The Telegraph]

The milestones in a lawyer's career when finding a new role makes sense [The Guardian]

Five minutes with the new head of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) [Chambers Student]

Lindsay Lohan's longtime lawyer quits [Female First]

Allen and Overy creates new jobs in Belfast [BBC News]

Law Society warns solicitors to protect themselves against "biased" barristers’ terms [Legal Futures]

Context is everything – European Court of Human Rights struck out 99% of UK cases in 2012 [UK Human Rights Blog]

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]

End Of The Day Round-Up

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UK Supreme Court judgment summaries on YouTube…now we need the full hearings [UK Human Rights Blog]

UK Supreme Court's new YouTube channel [YouTube]

Is using junior barristers for big criminal cases like getting junior doctors to do complex surgery? [The Telegraph]

Loose Women vs Looser Women: ITV in legal battle with Loaded TV [The Mirror]

RIP Michael Winner, law graduate (and some other things) [David Allen Green on Twitter]

It’s easy to claim richer students are more confident because of their superior education, but it may be more accurate to say they’re more confident because they’re rich [New Statesman]

The tyranny of equality laws [Spiked]

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]

End Of The Day Round-Up

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The new Titan prison idea could be a bit of a rightwing smokescreen, designed to burnish the justice secretary's tough man image [The Guardian]

One in five firms likely to seek external investment [Law Society Gazette]

Only half of police officers 'would report colleague who punched suspect' [The Telegraph]

CILEx CEO sees take-up difficulty for solicitor apprenticeship scheme [The Lawyer]

Sunday working, deportation and judicial review reform – The Human Rights Roundup [UK Human Rights Blog]

Final Legal Education and Training Review report delayed [Legal Futures]