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Top black judge who said ‘racism is alive and well’ among the judiciary is reprimanded over ‘inappropriate’ comments
Peter Herbert gave a public speech following Tower Hamlets electoral fraud scandal
Law professor suing Donald Trump has made a cringeworthy World War I anniversary Twitter gaffe
He's a top Harvard academic who has appeared in the Supreme Court 36 times...
Video: A day in the life of the Legal Cheek team
Featuring cameos from Judge Rinder and Joshua Rozenberg
Morning round-up: Friday 7 April
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
Competition: The Cyber Crime Blogging Prize
2017 Legal Cheek Journal competition opens -- with return transatlantic flights for the winner
Barrister who admitted supplying drugs that killed teenage boyfriend is NOT struck off
Henry Hendron avoided jail last year
BPP to cover course fees of ex-KWM future trainees as it emerges that firm collapsed owing law school £236,000
Bristol and Oxford students law societies also left out of pocket as millionaire ex-KWM partners join new firms
The problem with low cost legal hubs is that law graduates don’t want to work in them
Students say ‘no thanks’ to northshoring
Morning round-up: Thursday 6 April
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
I’ve been paid! QC dismisses report claiming she is owed £200,000 following collapse of KWM
Catherine Newman QC says she received money in full despite featuring in administrators statement
City Uni law students victorious in Luxembourg Court of Justice moot
They beat fellow finalists from the Netherlands, Latvia and Sweden
Image of top chancery QC giving penis-themed PowerPoint presentation surfaces online
The story behind the unusual picture
BPP unveils two new LLM programmes tailored to practice as a solicitor or barrister
And both are eligible for government student loans
Morning round-up: Wednesday 5 April
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
Better late than never: Liz Truss finally made honorary bencher of Lincoln’s Inn
Apparently one Court of Appeal judge refused to stand up
Berwin Leighton Paisner to offer City trainees secondments at its Manchester hub
As international outfit confirms first northern rookie lawyers
Hashtag hilarity as MoJ and CPS try, and fail, to launch serious social media campaigns
Legal Twitterati couldn't help but take the p*ss
Online petition calling on government to shelve late opening hours for courts hits target of 2,000 signatures
Lawyers with young children could be placed at a disadvantage
Review: Lady Hale and Sir Brian Leveson perform alongside TV and film stars in tragic play about women’s fight for equality within the legal profession
It was rough around the edges, but the message was there