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Property lawyer fined £10,000 for renting out house with ‘kitchen in the garden shed’
She told the court a tenant built the illegal extension without her knowledge
It’s official: The LPC and GDL are being scrapped
Solicitor super-exam will replace traditional routes to qualification as soon as September 2020
The Legal Cheek Barrister Survey 2017
How happy are you with your lot, chambers-dwellers?
Morning round-up: Tuesday 25 April
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
Liz Truss will not make a year as Lord Chancellor, Joshua Rozenberg predicts
She’s unlikely to survive post-election reshuffle
Clifford Chance to fund community law graduate scheme likened to Teach First
Youth advocates will help protect the legal rights of vulnerable children
Slater and Gordon solicitor, 31, becomes youngest coroner in England and Wales
Leeds University graduate reaches judicial office way ahead of schedule
Morning round-up: Monday 24 April
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
‘Active, aggressive and long-winded’: verdict on Trump’s Supreme Court appointee
US media sizes up Neil Gorsuch's first court appearances
ULaw to launch ‘MA Law’ alternative to the GDL
Because it's a masters UK students will qualify for a £10,000 government loan
Snap election: government bill that would make it easier for individuals to set up unis could be scrapped
The Prisons and Courts Bill has already been abandoned, now maybe May's announcement will save us from a Trump University in Britain
Law Society tells solicitors to ‘channel their inner Judge Dredd’ – immediately backfires
'You do realise he is an executioner for a totalitarian fascist regime?'
Allen & Overy at back-end of gender diversity league table as magic circle giant reveals just 8% of its new partners are female
On the other hand, Pinsents and Mishcon have made up 60%+ female partners
Morning round-up: Friday 21 April
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
Work less, earn less: Linklaters offers lawyers who want a life outside the office an ‘alternative career model’
The scheme is being piloted next month
Soon-to-be Aberdeen LLM student writes to the Prime Minister to tell her why Article 50 notification is illegal
He thinks Brexit should be ‘terminated’, at least until the UK and EU courts consider his letter
City University BPTC grad who stole cash from colleagues’ bags BARRED from legal profession
Mahnoor Choudhury was working as a paralegal at the time
Pay trainees and NQs less; pay mid-level associates more, argues influential commentator
Rookie lawyer remuneration in London may have reached unsustainable levels
Morning round-up: Thursday 20 April
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
Judge who spent 17 HOURS reading aloud 138-page judgment involving spooked horse slammed by appeal court
There was 'no explanation' as to why it took so long