Category: News
Scanning a defendant’s brain can establish mens rea, claim neuroscientists
Will the results be used in the courtroom?
Morning round-up: Tuesday 14 March
The morning's top legal affairs news stories
‘There is no incentive for junior lawyers to qualify into criminal law’, says Junior Lawyers Division
And there will be even less incentive after MoJ pay reforms
Bragging barristers: Bar Council issues fresh guidance for online etiquette
Just weeks after Michael Wolkind QC was fined over website claims
Law firm partner’s career hangs in the balance after High Court headbutt attack on EastEnders star’s father
Property law specialist Philip Saunders handed an 18-month suspended sentence
New online soap reveals ‘the truth’ about life as a solicitor in a City law firm
Coronation Street for corporate lawyers
LGBT moot: BPP Law School snatches victory from 2016 winners Oxford University
The competition was judged by some of the country's leading human rights specialists
‘How Twitter works’ appendix to Katie Hopkins libel judgment was penned by rookie barrister, reveals phone hacking lawyer
But 5RB’s Greg Callus insists viral guide was a team effort as Jack Monroe describes him as “lovely”
Freshfields unveils 84% spring retention score
Magic circle outfit keeps 31 of its 37 NQs
Cardiff student goes public with LLB regrets and says law school is a quicker way to kill yourself than smoking
‘Never, ever study law’, says Ursula Rifat
Pants on fire: Lawyer’s trousers burst into flames while defending client accused of arson
Stephen Gutierrez blamed the crotch combustion on a faulty e-cigarette battery
Lawyers are turning to botox to hide their emotions and make them look more serious
The new trend has been dubbed 'protox'
Browne Jacobson admits it ‘incorrectly attributed’ praise for its solicitors to the Legal 500, when it was actually written by the firm
Exclusive: The testimonies have now been deleted from the lawyer profiles
Rare species alert: INTERESTING pensions cases in the Supreme Court today
Juicy legal human rights issues, equality and the principle of retrospective effect -- with seven QCs getting stuck in
Olswang partner who completed training contract AND pupillage within a year of each other lands top legal role at Facebook
Anna Caddick will head up the social media giant's regulatory and litigation team
Oxford trumps Cambridge in world law school rankings, again
Eight UK institutions land top 50 slots, a drop on last year's results
Now even City lawyers can’t afford to get onto the London property ladder
A training contract is not always enough to get you a mortgage
BPP University chief exits after 20 years at legal education giant
Carl Lygo started as a tutor at the law school in the 1990s
Amal Clooney thinks it’s a ‘good thing’ her cases get extra publicity because of her marriage to George
It seems fame is currency in the fight against ISIS
Solicitor who qualified in 2009 and made partner in 2014 becomes UK’s youngest female judge at just 31
Briony Clarke’s swift ascent into the history books
International Women’s Day: Lack of confidence deterring women from applying for silk
Barristers urge female seniors to be an inspiration to their juniors