Category: News

Morning round-up: Friday 13 December

How has this escaped Twitter’s attention? [Shit places I go to in pupillage] Queen angry...

Dec 13 2013 8:13am

The end of the day round-up

Jurors in fraud trial of TV cook’s former assistants are told to ignore Prime Minister’s...

Dec 12 2013 4:40pm

Podcast: Do you have a better chance of landing a training contract if you do your law degree in London?

The growing separation between recovering London and the struggling rest of the country poses an...

Dec 12 2013 1:43pm

12 of the least glamorous court buildings in England and Wales

Certain courts will never grace the pages of glossy law school brochures — with good...

Dec 12 2013 9:05am

Morning round-up: Thursday 12 December

Ryanair’s racy calendar advert featuring stewardesses in bikinis is “banned” by Spanish judge for being...

Dec 12 2013 7:52am

The end of the day round-up

Scientology is a religion, rules Supreme Court [The Telegraph] Paul Hastings lawyer pays £75 million...

Dec 11 2013 2:16pm

A Publicly Funded Christmas Carol

A Festive Fable PART ONE The legal profession was dead, to begin with. Christopher Scrooge...

Dec 11 2013 12:23pm

The roaring eBay trade in law school notes

Following our recent story about the Kennedys solicitor who’s flogging her old GDL and LPC...

Dec 11 2013 9:42am

Morning round-up: Wednesday 11 December

Three murderers were sentenced to life imprisonment on one day. The minimum terms set were...

Dec 11 2013 8:09am

The end of the day round-up

The Bar’s worst chambers profile pics [Your Barrister Boyfriend] The first same-sex weddings in England...

Dec 10 2013 4:04pm

Lawyers aren’t supposed to fall for Nigerian inheritance scams…

A US lawyer is at the centre of a storm of legal blogosphere ridicule after...

Dec 10 2013 1:52pm

Frontman of company seeking to ‘revolutionise’ criminal law makes grammatically incorrect bestiality slur against bemused barrister

Last night on Twitter the public face of a heavily-hyped new legal market entrant launched...

Dec 10 2013 10:29am

Morning round-up: Tuesday 10 December

Are we in England too paternalistic to our juries? [David Allen Green on Facebook] The...

Dec 10 2013 8:23am

The end of the day round-up

Boat race protester Trenton Oldfield saved by non-Oxbridge lawyer [The Independent] 1,000 crime solicitors to...

Dec 9 2013 4:35pm

Kingston Crown Court unveils a lunch deal of such complexity that even lawyers can’t understand it

Can anyone decipher the meaning of Kingston Crown Court’s incredibly complicated lunch deal?

Dec 9 2013 1:07pm

Is this the most whirlwind pupillage application schedule ever?

Several pupillage hopefuls have alerted us to the incredibly fast pupillage application schedule being operated...

Dec 9 2013 9:37am

The number of students enrolling on the LPC is down 8.4% this year — with the course on average only 44% full

Amid continued concerns about the numbers of training contracts available, fewer students are doing the...

Dec 9 2013 9:02am

Morning round-up: Monday 9 December

Law student spots cockroach in Subway while eating sandwich [Manchester Evening News] Don’t have children...

Dec 9 2013 7:44am

Legal Cheek high five: the week’s most read stories

1. Law student sends multiple-claused note to neighbours warning them of party 2. The QC...

Dec 8 2013 10:08am

The end of the day round-up

Christian woman loses legal challenge over right not to work on Sundays [The Independent] Women...

Dec 5 2013 4:12pm

‘I was offered pupillage at the second chambers I applied to’

Unlike his friend, who crashed his hired Jaguar into the chambers where he was interviewing,...

Dec 5 2013 1:15pm