Category: News

Presidential nominee calls out judge; judge calls for documents to be released

Separation of Powers could be the new Game of Thrones

Jun 1 2016 11:07am

Brexit poll: 57% of lawyers want Britain to REMAIN in the EU

The biggest stay vote came from lawyers up in Scotland

May 31 2016 12:01pm

Shearman & Sterling boosts junior lawyer pay packets by 8% to £95,000

Pay rises across the board for lucky associates

May 27 2016 12:11pm

8 lawyers make the grade in new minority business power list

Strong showing from the magic circle

May 27 2016 9:02am

Barrister who accused Bar Disciplinary Tribunal of ‘lack of impartiality and independence’ has appeals booted out

Immigration barrister, and a former joint head of a chambers in Birmingham, has had two appeals and two judicial review applications dismissed

May 26 2016 2:06pm

Confirmed: Gay judge appointed as Master of the Rolls

History made as Sir Terence Etherton bags Lord Denning’s old job title

May 26 2016 1:12pm

BPP University student wins BARBRI Global Financial Crime Blogging Prize

Recent graduates from Trinity College Dublin and Essex University highly acclaimed

May 26 2016 10:04am

Psychoactive Substances Act BANNING legal highs comes into force today

New legislation has come under fire from many within the legal profession

May 26 2016 8:53am

‘Lawyered up’: Mr Justice Peter Smith takes legal advice

Judge who is the subject of an ongoing judicial investigation into possible bias instructs corporate and financial crime specialist BCL Burton Copeland

May 25 2016 11:16am

Judge sacked for watching porn in his ‘private chambers’ reprimanded by SRA

Solicitor turned district judge was removed from judicial office in March 2015

May 25 2016 10:17am

Fake lawyer who was jailed for tricking high-ranking judges BANNED from profession

Mohammed Kabba received a 16 month custodial sentence last summer for pretending to be a solicitor during an immigration case

May 24 2016 1:26pm

Supreme Court REFUSES to hear Belgium-based White & Case lawyer’s case on why she should be able to vote in EU referendum

EU competition partner at US giant has no right to vote because she has lived outside the UK for more than 15 years

May 24 2016 12:45pm

Juries of the future could be ‘transported’ to crime scenes using virtual reality headsets

Staffordshire University-led research hopes to revolutionise the way lawyers present criminal cases in court

May 24 2016 12:17pm

Law is the hardest degree, says a law student

BAs are “so much easier”, according to the Oxford student who infected herself with typhoid

May 24 2016 10:02am

Cambridge, Oxford, LSE, King’s and Queen Mary top latest law school league table

Annual comprehensive rankings produced by The Guardian examine standards of teaching, level of feedback and overall quality of the course

May 23 2016 3:16pm