Category: News

University of Law and students in row over legality of obscene songs

Law school claims Town Police Clauses Act 1847 still applies -- students not so sure

May 15 2015 10:45am

City firms silent on whether they will follow PwC in ignoring A-level results

Big Four accountancy firm shocks recruitment market and stuns Square Mile law firms with its bid to boost diversity

May 15 2015 9:08am

Lawyer rugby tackles client in court to foil escape bid

Wallabies call-up must be next for a man who practises in one of the most exotic and remote parts of the world

May 14 2015 3:25pm

‘Rappers may have it over judges,’ says Lord Neuberger after listening to Jay Z‏

Judicial bombshell -- Supreme Court supremo Lord Neuberger has been listening to Brooklyn's star hip-hop and gangsta geezer

May 14 2015 11:14am

Campaigners at war over Human Rights Act petition

Online bid to force a referendum has picked up nearly 200,000 signatures, but the experts reckon it’s counterproductive

May 14 2015 9:22am

Research: sleep-starved barristers are court zombies

The profession is stressed out and depressed, according to the Bar Council’s own survey, with a fifth saying they would never recommend it as a career

May 13 2015 12:10pm

Students back code for TC offers timetable — law firms don’t

Signs that City graduate recruitment departments are already moving towards a training contract free for all as the regulator ditches existing guidelines

May 13 2015 9:36am

National law firm becomes first ever to flog shares on London stock exchange

Gateley confirms weekend rumours that it is about to set up its stall on the AIM market

May 12 2015 11:47am

Move over Justine — here comes Alice

As Mrs Miliband prepares to get back to chambers untroubled by the media glare, Chuka Umunna’s employment lawyer girlfriend braces herself for the roller coaster

May 12 2015 10:31am

University of Law looks for edge over Russell Group in LLB market

Deal with careers advice and networking provider to be pitched at second and third year students

May 11 2015 4:36pm

Ex-Tory councillor makes late guilty pleas to fraud and pretending to be a barrister

Gray’s Inn student member awaits sentencing after Legal Cheek exposed Bar Council rules error

May 11 2015 3:11pm

City law firm partner at the heart of Westminster affair shocker

Bercow v Bercow was the unexpected result from last week’s general election as Stephenson Harwood man allegedly falls for charms of speaker’s wife

May 11 2015 1:31pm

There was a lawyer in a cage at Liverpool Street station

It’s amazing what you can stumble across in the rush hour at one of London’s busiest railway stations

May 11 2015 10:17am

‘Free Chambers’? Disgruntled lawyer edits Wikipedia page of new Justice Secretary Michael Gove

Black humour as Chris Grayling is replaced by controversial former Education Secretary -- who also has no legal training

May 10 2015 10:35am

Is this the most inappropriate gavel ever?

This month’s issue barrister bible, Counsel Magazine, has attracted a flurry of social media attention -- for all the wrong reasons

May 8 2015 3:30pm

Tory win sounds death knell for criminal bar, predicts top QC

Return of an even more powerful and unfettered Chris Grayling to the woolsack does not bode well for wannabe legal aid lawyers

May 8 2015 2:37pm

Will a lawyer win Labour Party leadership battle?

Several are lined up to take poisoned chalice from battered and bruised Miliband. And there are even a couple of Lib-Dem solicitors that could step into Clegg’s shoes

May 8 2015 12:01pm

Pupillage Gateway applications fall by 9%

Hard evidence that law students are turning their backs on the bar

May 7 2015 4:52pm

Wife of Supreme Court president shocked at age revelation

Legal Cheek’s story yesterday ruffled feathers with Mrs Neuberger

May 6 2015 4:24pm

Legal Cheek election poll results: law students and lawyers back Labour

Ed Miliband’s margin over the Conservatives is narrow, but enough to give the red rose party an outright majority

May 6 2015 2:12pm

This is it — the world’s biggest gavel

And funnily enough, this sculpture is not something cooked up by a misguided English law school or even the Law Society -- it’s in Ohio

May 6 2015 11:39am