Category: News

Exam cock-up sees Bristol land law paper accidentally uploaded online and left there for SEVEN hours

Undergrads left angry as staff scramble to draft new paper in time for May exam

May 17 2016 10:07am

Advocacy charity launches Teach First for wannabe lawyers

Brand new grad scheme launched for barrister hopefuls

May 17 2016 9:22am

‘I will no longer support your Chambers’: Top judge’s incredible letter to elite set Blackstone emerges in bias row

The full letter by Mr Justice Peter Smith revealed, as he is barred from hearing Blackstone barristers' cases

May 17 2016 8:07am

Junior barrister who supplied drugs that killed teenage boyfriend accepts his legal career is over

Last week Strand Chambers’ Henry Hendron was sentenced to 140 hours of unpaid work and an 18-month supervision order

May 16 2016 2:22pm

Revealed: Britain’s most influential law student, as voted for by you

Hundreds of Legal Cheek readers cast their vote, but who’s nabbed the crown?

May 16 2016 11:58am

Law groups unify to create mental health taskforce

The move comes as research earlier this year revealed more than a third of calls to charity helpline were from stressed-out junior lawyers

May 16 2016 11:08am

Capital’s lawyers limber up for London Legal Walk

All the legal celebs will be there

May 16 2016 8:57am

Liverpool anger as Hillsborough QC is nominated for ‘Barrister of the Year’

John Beggs QC targeted in local press and on social media

May 13 2016 4:05pm

Cambridge academic rounds on Charlotte Proudman for writing same article ‘over and over again’

Lawyers aren’t very happy with latest piece from the LinkedIn row barrister

May 13 2016 10:43am

BPP Law School loses BPTC ethics exam papers during marking process

Exclusive: Wannabe barristers at London's Holborn branch could have to re-do the exam in August

May 13 2016 9:50am

£1m funding boost opens up Sutton Trust social mobility programme to 14 and 15 year-olds

Nearly 2000 youngsters to benefit from Pathways to Law over next four years, but no corresponding hike in number of undergrad mentors

May 13 2016 9:05am

Vladimir Putin is poster boy for satirical anti-UK Snoopers’ Charter campaign

Russian President is joined by political leaders including Chinese President Xi Jinping appearing to endorse controversial bill

May 12 2016 12:38pm

BPTC satisfaction survey results: student happiness surprisingly unrelated to chances of pupillage success

Bar course experience better in the regions -- even if life afterwards often isn't

May 12 2016 9:06am

Flexi-working latest: Macfarlanes, Freshfields and White & Case join the ‘home-desking’ movement

But is the hot City trend of "agile working" simply a token gesture?

May 11 2016 11:35am

‘Delicate Oxford flower’ takes down top criminal barrister

Second year Oxford University law student details flaws in 30 years and counting barrister’s argument and signs off with a kiss

May 10 2016 12:38pm

All five magic circle law firms named in new ‘Panama Papers’ database

Top City firms named as a result of Mossack Fonseca leak and further investigations by press

May 10 2016 10:23am

GDL satisfaction survey results: Nottingham and City beat ULaw and BPP

Graduate Diploma in Law students are actually reasonably happy

May 10 2016 9:28am

We should dance ‘crotch to crotch’: UKIP barrister fined £1,800 for inappropriate behaviour towards THREE women at chambers summer party

Ex-Zenith Chambers barrister poked one female in the breast area of her chest and attempted to kiss another

May 9 2016 12:55pm