Author: Legal Cheek
Morning round-up: Thursday 20 June
Judge accepts testimony from Michael Jackson’s “ghost” in court [Now] Moral Maze: Pornography and the...
Top QC laments daughter’s indifference to mini-pupillage offer
As spotted in the letters section of yesterday’s The Times.
As MoJ consultation on legal aid closes, the UK criminal justice system is placed on ebay
Bidding closes on 11 June, with the UK criminal justice system “available to the lowest...
Quitting a big law firm to become an entrepreneur: the exhilaration and the fear
Last month Pete Dowds left DLA Piper’s London office for the final time. The three...
Just another day at the Chancery Lane Starbucks
Image by @LeonGlenister.
Are the Inner Temple toilets still a leading cottaging hotspot?
Readers may recall the spot of bother Inner Temple had last year with cottagers, who...
‘Why I turned down a place to study law at Manchester University to become a legal executive’
Is Rhys Bevan crazy? Why would anyone in their right mind reject a place at...
How long until the Stobart Barrister-Tracker App?
Surely, if it works for lorries…. “Stobarts have promised me that the next version of...
Dynamo Legal founder’s eyebrows: a Twitter tribute
The new series of The Apprentice began last night, giving the world its first glimpse...
Podcast: The fight to protect the brand of ‘solicitor’ from the ABS barbarians
The momentum may be with Alternative Business Structures (ABSs) right now as they pour through...
End of the day round-up
Keir Starmer to step down as Director of Public Prosecutions in October [CPS] UK gov’s...
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…...
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...
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...
Morning round-up: Friday 19 April
“Lawyers are treated with a little bit more respect than porn magazine editors”: Ex-features editor...
End of the day round-up
DLA Piper settles “churn that bill, baby!” dispute [New York Times] Paralegals have the same...
Morning Round-Up: Thursday 18 April
Training contracts down to the lowest level since 1999 [Law Society Gazette] Paralysed builder to...