Author: Legal Cheek

End Of The Day Round-Up

Solicitor ditches the law to launch Cocoretto Chocolates business [The Journal] Secret courts are already...

Mar 25 2013 6:36pm

Quote Of The Day

“Having your boobs out a little bit isn’t fake but it’s a little bit flirtatious...

Mar 25 2013 2:41pm

End Of The Day Round-Up

Footballer tired of jokers telling him not to spend as much time on the bench...

Mar 22 2013 5:33pm

‘I Opened My EU Law Paper And I Cried. I Actually Cried’: Exam Preparation Tips Gleaned From Bitter Experience

Bristol University lecturer Steven Vaughan has drawn on his own past failures to compile this...

Mar 22 2013 9:37am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Supreme Court justices go into secret closed session for the first ever time in their...

Mar 21 2013 5:34pm

Morning Round-Up: Thursday 21 March

Ex- Greenwoods solicitor Rukmini Iyer appears on Masterchef [BBC iPlayer] Female lawyers speak out in...

Mar 21 2013 7:52am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Company director Bart Simpson appears before judge named Mr Burns [Metro] Porn star Luka Magnotta...

Mar 20 2013 5:28pm

Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 20 March

American-style televised courts move a step closer: Channel 4 to show a British murder trial...

Mar 20 2013 8:10am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Katie Holmes fuels rumours she’s about to become a lawyer: “Well, my brother and father...

Mar 19 2013 4:52pm

Is law really ‘very well suited to flexible working’?

Earlier this month Law Society chief Lucy Scott-Moncrieff caused some raised eyebrows when she claimed...

Mar 19 2013 2:12pm

Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 19 March

Zimbabwe police ignore order to free top lawyer [Huffington Post] CLA condems the arrest of...

Mar 19 2013 8:37am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Draft royal charter on self regulation of the press [Gov.uk] “I warned you they needed...

Mar 18 2013 5:37pm

End Of The Day Round-Up

Joshua Rozenberg interviews court artist Julia Quenzler [Radio 4] Start the bilge pumps or abandon...

Mar 15 2013 5:23pm

Morning round-up: Friday 15 March

Law profession can’t handle talented women, says Baroness Hale [The Independent] “I won back my...

Mar 15 2013 8:36am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Boris Bike lawyers think a leap year is 364 days long [Dave Gorman on Twitter]...

Mar 14 2013 5:49pm

Do As I Say Not As I Do Advocacy Training: Starring Lord Sumption

Last month we analysed the “smug smile” and poor posture which blight Lord Neuberger’s delivery...

Mar 14 2013 10:16am

Farewell to the graffiti barrister

The eagle-eyed will have noticed that Legal Cheek has undergone a spring makeover. Which means...

Mar 14 2013 9:09am

Morning Round-Up: Thursday 14 March

Who is Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, the lawyer taking Argo to court? [The Week] Just doing my...

Mar 14 2013 8:25am

Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 13 March

Carlos Tevez to be represented in driving court case by Burton Copeland solicitor nicknamed ‘Merlin...

Mar 13 2013 8:16am

End Of The Day Round-Up

“Carlsberg doesn’t do press releases, but if you drink a load of it and then...

Mar 12 2013 6:37pm

Morning Round-Up: Friday 8 March

“A shocking lack of understanding of the justice system is driving dangerous cuts”: A guest...

Mar 8 2013 9:20am