Author: katie-king

Katie Hopkins writes an article on the European Union — and gets the law horribly wrong

Errors that would make a first year law student blush

Nov 11 2015 3:38pm

Disabled wannabe lawyer uses discrimination battle to fire training contract mission

He has come a long way, but now Josh Hepple must confront his biggest challenge yet

Nov 11 2015 9:37am

Katie Hopkins is trying to set up ‘The Society for White Lawyers’

Move comes after CPS drop case against her following Society of Black Lawyers referral

Nov 5 2015 4:31pm

Fish & chip shop owner who refused to accept parking fine changes contract law

Barry Beavis' honourable Supreme Court defeat today will impact university syllabuses

Nov 4 2015 3:57pm

Two already huge London megalaw firms are set to get even bigger

Dentons and Eversheds seek to reach Coca-Cola and Pepsi levels of ubiquity

Nov 4 2015 9:39am

Supreme Court judge predicts that a flurry of women will follow Lady Hale into top court over next five years

With nine places on highest bench shortly up for grabs, expect a shake-up

Nov 3 2015 4:06pm

City lawyers can’t agree if they should fill the legal aid gap

National Pro Bono week kicks off with a disagreement about Justice Secretary Michael Gove's grand plan

Nov 3 2015 10:14am

Ethnic minority City lawyers still under-represented at the top

Only a handful of internationalist firms reflect diversity of the general UK population

Nov 2 2015 10:07am

The unintentionally positive effects of the Witchcraft Act are still being felt today

Laws against witchcraft were pivotal in the creation of modern concepts of evidence; they also gave women a voice in court as witnesses

Oct 30 2015 10:00am

Not accepting students with 2:2s is ‘discriminatory’, argues top legal academic

Dr Steven Vaughan says degree class doesn’t tell the whole story

Oct 30 2015 9:09am

Top Blackstone Chambers QC rejects Oxford prof’s claim that technology will destroy legal profession

Lawyers survived email and Twitter -- and they'll survive everything else, predicts David Pannick QC

Oct 29 2015 1:59pm

Blogging ex-judge gives exclusive insight into one of most influential cases of past 150 years

Former Court of Appeal man reveals what it was like to decide Re A (conjoined twins)

Oct 29 2015 12:24pm

The top 15 law fair freebies of 2015

The stash creating the biggest stir on campus

Oct 29 2015 9:51am

Halloween is coming: Witch takes ‘world’s best-known warlock’ to court over harassment claims

Witches versus warlocks -- but who will triumph in court?

Oct 28 2015 3:05pm

New Legally Blonde film could feature Elle Woods as a Supreme Court judge

Reese Witherspoon has serious ambitions for her character

Oct 28 2015 10:41am

Supreme Court hears joint enterprise case that could shake up criminal law syllabuses

Key legal principle could be overhauled -- and the whole process is being charted live via video and social media

Oct 28 2015 9:53am

Author of criminal law bible profiled in Mail Online as relationship guru

Jonathan Herring -- of ‘Criminal Law: Texts, Cases and Materials’ fame -- has diversified

Oct 27 2015 2:25pm

Most Lists 2016: There are lots of junior women solicitors, but everywhere else in legal profession is dominated by men

Being a partner, a QC or even a rookie barrister is largely a man's game

Oct 27 2015 9:10am

Why lawyers are so angry about the quiet change to the Ministerial Code

Government's continued disdain for the law raises temperature of human rights debate

Oct 26 2015 2:03pm