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Liverpool Uni law student pledges to use £44,000 lottery win to fund barrister dream
First year has her law school fund sorted
Morning round-up: Thursday 5 November
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
The 8 best moments from the Lord Harley hearing liveblog
What purports to be a blow-by-blow account of solicitor-advocate's first day before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal appears online
Fish & chip shop owner who refused to accept parking fine changes contract law
Barry Beavis' honourable Supreme Court defeat today will impact university syllabuses
Big Four accountancy giant EY launches law training contract — and you don’t need a 2:1 or top A-levels to apply
Applicants to be selected via online tests
The great Mansfield Chambers exodus: 50% of barristers quit the set
Exclusive: Half of the members of Michael Mansfield QC's set have just left
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
Morning round-up: Wednesday 4 November
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
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
Chelsea FC-mad corporate lawyer tells Liverpool fans to ‘crawl back to your horrible Merseyside home’
Partner at London office of US firm latest to be caught out by YouTube and Twitter
Cambridge law student goes public about creepy rubber duck stalking campaign
Undergraduate who has done mini-pupillages at two top sets tells world about attracting unwanted attention
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
Morning round-up: Tuesday 3 November
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Inner Temple votes to cut library space by nearly 60% so it can build a lecture theatre
Move comes as rumours of not-for-profit BPTC continue to swirl
There is a new contender for the worst attempt at a fraudulent personal injury claim ever
Police release footage of fake slip that saw man jailed for fraud
Why is nobody talking about this Friday’s Inns of Court scholarship deadline?
£5 million in cash and rent-free flats in central London up for grabs, but publicity is minimal
Ethnic minority City lawyers still under-represented at the top
Only a handful of internationalist firms reflect diversity of the general UK population
Morning round-up: Monday 2 November
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
A practising barrister who failed to declare his old criminal convictions has been disbarred
Omissions come back to haunt forgery barrister 16 years later
Police investigate after sex attack on paralegal’s miniature Shetland pony
Tiny horse was found badly injured, with two separate internal injuries
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