Category: News
Morning round-up: Tuesday 15 October
Attorney General: Britain’s “economic, physical and ethical well-being” depends on it playing an “active part”...
End of the day round-up
Baroness Hale to speak at (free) social mobility in legal aid event on Wednesday 30...
A guide to determining which type of fat cat lawyer the Daily Mail thinks you are
Blackfriars Chambers criminal barrister John Mack has created this useful cut-out-and-keep guide (click on image...
Three lawyers feature in The Independent’s ‘Pink List’ 2013
The legal profession is healthily represented in this year’s ‘Pink List’, with three of its...
Morning round-up: Monday 14 October
GCHQ accused of monitoring privileged emails between lawyers and clients [The Guardian] We need a...
Legal Cheek high five: the week’s most read stories
1. Top judge tells solicitor that his romantic emails to glamour model ‘would not necessarily...
End of the day round-up
Ban on Oxbridge hopefuls applying to both Oxford and Cambridge may breach EU competition law...
‘Although the choices you make in your twenties matter, they are rarely life threatening’
Barrister-turned-cartoonist Alex Williams feared expulsion when he cheated on a piece of work that his...
Why trying to persuade a judge that the authority of the law doesn’t apply to you isn’t such a good court tactic
Since enjoying a flurry of publicity after this memorable attempt to arrest a judge (see...
Morning round-up: Friday 11 October
Leveson’s anger as MP questions him over lawyers’ affair [Mail Online] UK asylum seekers “told...
End of the day round-up
Female lawyers earn a third less than males [The Lawyer] War criminal Charles Taylor to...
Cocaine-fuelled bullying incident comes back to haunt Kingsley Napley solicitor
Dave Rowntree, the former Blur drummer who recently qualified as a solicitor at Kingsley Napley,...
If I knew then what I know now — at the Google Campus
This evening’s event is fully booked — but any returns will be available on the...
The 16 most amusing Queen’s Counsel cartoons ever
As The Times’ Queen’s Counsel cartoon turns 20 — and marks its anniversary with a...
Morning round-up: Thursday 10 October
The hashtag for this evening’s ‘If I knew then what I know now — at...
End of the day round-up
Did you know it’s legal to smoke weed in North Korea? Dude, suddenly it all...
High Court judge mocks solicitor-turned-pornstar’s romantic prose style in ‘hunny bunny’ dispute
A struck-off tax solicitor who has earned millions making porn films — some of which...
Stephenson Harwood’s ‘red hot litigator’ makes First Capital Connect pay for overcharging him for his commute
Rail operator First Capital Connect (FCC) is rueing Andrew Myers’ 2012 move from SNR Denton’s...
Morning round-up: Wednesday 9 October
EU bans packets of 10 and menthol cigarettes [The Telegraph] Human Rights attacked again — the...
End of the day round-up
Dechert lawyer Miriam González Durántez: Why I’m calling on brilliant British women to go back...
‘F*ckwad’ emails led (somewhat indirectly) to the biggest law firm collapse in history
The New Yorker has revealed a series of previously unseen abusive emails which arguably set...