Category: News

Scrap BPTC in favour of two year pupillage, urges bar chief

Top crime QC says bar course only benefits law schools and London's landlords

Oct 19 2015 2:15pm

Nottingham Trent law student jailed for naked photos Snapchat blackmail

First year's legal career hopes hanging by a thread

Oct 19 2015 12:49pm

Lord Neuberger: Top judges should visit non-traditional unis and encourage students to apply for training contracts

Exclusive: Head of Supreme Court wants to see judiciary out on campus but is against imposing diversity quotas

Oct 19 2015 9:58am

Wannabe barrister wins £20k damages from his uni over false ‘criminal behaviour’ claim

Damages obtained by Geoffrey Robertson QC working pro bono should cover the cost of the BPTC nicely

Oct 16 2015 1:04pm

DLA Piper silent on rumours that partner who described women as ‘gash’ is under investigation by the SRA

Firm's refusal to comment on matter gives credence to gossip

Oct 16 2015 11:00am

Key litigant in person charity sees incredible 900% rise in clients helped

Personal Support Unit assisted 5,000 clients in 2008 -- now number is a terrifying 50,000

Oct 16 2015 9:29am

18% of lawyers would quit their job to go on The Apprentice

Figure is down from 25% in 2011

Oct 15 2015 1:23pm

The best advocates are ‘simply born that way’, claims ex-Court of Appeal judge on his new blog

Third rate barristers can become second rate -- but not great, says Sir Henry Brooke

Oct 15 2015 9:31am

Hogan Lovells denies joining movement to allocate work blindly to junior lawyers

But the firm has made contact with the guru attempting to revolutionise working patterns at rivals

Oct 14 2015 3:26pm

Suing your 12 year-old nephew theoretically possible in England — but no lawyer would take case on

US aunt v nephew birthday hug case would require a litigant-in-person on these shores … or an English Saul Goodman

Oct 14 2015 2:36pm

A major law firm has been dramatically shut down by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

Move comes after Legal Aid Agency referred Blavo & Co to the police

Oct 14 2015 11:13am

No more 85ft Helter Skelter rides: Law firm with coolest office in Britain moves on

Sheffield IP solicitors bid farewell to office with three storey high spiral slide

Oct 14 2015 9:20am

TV barrister Judge Rinder urges ‘serious’ law students to lighten up in order to succeed

Celeb lawyer claims aspiring solicitors and barristers are better off watching his show than attending boring law lectures

Oct 13 2015 1:19pm

The law from 1835 that bans ‘hoverboards’

Police tweet reminder of section 72 of the Highway Act 1835 amid rise of new craze

Oct 13 2015 9:51am

Over 340 lawyers and former judges blast UK refugee policy in full-page newspaper ad

Top lawyers use The Times to lambast government over "deeply inadequate" Syrian refugee policy

Oct 12 2015 11:18am

Computer glitch tells London BPP students they’ll have to go to Manchester to graduate

But law school's boss pledges there'll be space at ceremonies in the capital

Oct 12 2015 9:49am

Full transcript: Incredible Peter Andre High Court judgment lifts lid on mad world of reality TV

Mr Justice Flaux's ruling is a must-read for fans of celeb gossip

Oct 9 2015 3:08pm

Goldsmith Chambers barrister accused of perverting the course of justice in cricket Twitter libel case

Andrew Fitch-Holland, who is alleged to have asked a witness to give false evidence, denies charge

Oct 9 2015 1:23pm