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Cycling solicitor who jumped red light claims filming him is ‘against data protection law’
Woe betide any red light-jumping cyclist who encounters SonOfTheWinds, a YouTube phenomenon who spends his...
How to tell your parents that you failed your exams
Simple: present them with some even worse news to soften the blow… Hat tip to...
‘Your Barrister Boyfriend’ Tumblr names ‘the 21 hottest barristers in London’
A Tumblr called YourBarristerBoyfriend has produced what it terms “the first ever official Barrister Hottie...
Morning round-up: Wednesday 17 July
Now it’s Stobart Solicitors as well after SRA grants ABS licence [Legal Futures] Will Frankie...
All the ‘common sense’ BCAT does is increase the cost of qualifying as a barrister
Having just sat the Bar Course Aptitude Test (BCAT) — which must be taken by...
Yet another top barrister quits Tooks…
The exodus began last autumn when Tim Moloney QC, Adrian Waterman QC and Tatyana Eatwell...
Do the lawyers who are demanding that @Pippatips be deleted understand Twitter?
According to The Independent, Harbottle & Lewis is demanding, on behalf of Pippa Middleton, that...
Lawyer sues Apple for letting him access porn after typing error
US lawyer Chris Sevier has filed a claim against Apple for failing to protect him...
Spoof Lord Chief Justice application by Lord Justice Moses (aged 67½) — the full text
On Friday the Law Society Gazette‘s Catherine Baksi reported that Court of Appeal judge Sir...
Name that UK Supreme Court Justice
The 12 UK Supreme Court judges may not rack up Justin Bieber levels of views...
‘If I knew then what I know now… I’d be on my hands and knees begging my younger self not to become a criminal barrister’
The criminal Bar no longer offers a path to a nice middle class lifestyle, but...
The most warped employment tribunal arguments used by claimants to (generally unsuccessfully) hang onto their jobs
A recent tribunal which saw a teacher compare Jews to Star Trek’s Vulcans — and...
Client-focused lawyer abandons submerged Ferrari to get to hearing on time
Earlier this week photos of a Ferrari submerged in a flooded Toronto underpass went viral...
‘We don’t even want to know your grades’: Is this the future of hiring pupil barristers?
Exclusive: Outer Temple Chambers has launched a new approach to graduate recruitment, which it is...
Top lawyers’ faces on other top lawyers
We tried to come up with a good reason for doing this, but there isn’t...
Barbara Hewson’s defence of notorious age of consent article on Channel 4 news last night unlikely to win her pals
Human rights barrister Barbara Hewson’s decision to write an article for Spiked magazine arguing, amongst...
Charmaines and Kylies in law: a full statistical breakdown
On Friday we reported that reality TV star Katie Hopkins had used the legal profession...
Spotted in the Temple: the filming of Silk series 3 — and Rupert Penry-Jones isn’t happy
The good news for actor Rupert Penry-Jones, who plays barrister Clive Reader in hit BBC...
‘Would I really be happy being told what to do by a 25 year-old?’
After quitting his job as an art history lecturer to retrain as a lawyer ten...
Are there really no lawyers called Charmaine or Kylie?
Ex-Apprentice contestant Katie Hopkins reckons that the legal profession is an area of life that...
Law Society ditches ‘legal executive of the year’ prize as new path emerges to rival training contract
For the first time since 2008 there will be no ‘legal executive of the year’...