Category: News
Morning Round-Up: Thursday 28 February
Parents in custody disputes spit and throw chairs at judges [The Guardian] CPS staff members...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Youngest of the new silks is just a year older than Spurs’ rookie manager Andre...
Cambridge Academic: Corporate Law Firms Need Less Top Graduates And More Loyal Grafters With Low Ambitions
At a time when the legal services market is “going through the most tremendous upheaval...
‘We Need Some More Girls In Here: There’s Too Many Man, Too Many Many Man’ In The UK Supreme Court
The news that the latest three appointments to the Supreme Court are all men means...
Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 27 February
2013 QC appointments: full list [Crime Line] One solicitor makes grade in QC round [Law...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Three male Supreme Court justices appointed to top court [Legal Week] More evidence of the...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Florida set to execute man tomorrow despite lawyer missing key appeal deadline [Amnesty] Know-it-all law...
Tooks QC Distances Himself From Colleagues’ ‘Ground Breaking’ How-To-Get-A-Pupillage Money Making Venture – But Mansfield Still Scheduled To Speak
On Friday we revealed that the directors of the company behind an event charging wannabe...
Law Students Release Parody Of ‘Payphone’ by Maroon 5
“I’m at a law school trying to crawl through all of the work that we...
North West Law Firm Records World’s First Solicitor Harlem Shake Video
Last week we detailed how several universities and law schools had recorded their own versions...
Morning Round-Up: Monday 25 February
Lawyer was left trapped and forgotten in a jail for hours after trying to visit...
Legal Cheek High Five: The Week’s Most Read Stories
1. The Best Explanation For Getting A 2:2 Ever 2. Tooks Chambers Barristers Start Company...
End Of The Day Round-Up
Joey Barton explains how he has concluded that Oscar Pistorius is “guilty of murder” [Twitter]...
‘Will Your Husband Mind If You Have To Work Late?’ Asked The Magic Circle Partner Who Interviewed Me For A TC
Ed note: This is the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I...
Tooks Chambers Barristers Start Company That Charges Bar Hopefuls £186 Each For Pupillage Application Advice From Michael Mansfield QC
When criminal barristers talk of having to diversify in order to survive, it’s generally assumed...
What Mid-Life Crisis? Skadden Partner Quits Law Because He Has ‘Been Blessed With The Incredible Good Fortune Of Being Married To TaQuita Thorns’
“I have decided to start a new phase of my life. I do not plan...
Morning Round-Up: Friday 22 February
UK’s most senior female judge says UK is “out of step with rest of world”...
Courtroom Movie Mashup: Name That Film
How many of the films can you name in this freshly-posted law film medley from...
Harlem Shake Reaches The Legal Profession – But Which British Lawyers Will Be First To Embrace Craze?
If you’re not familiar with the ‘Harlem Shake’, fear not: all you really need to...
Bar Course Aptitude Test Will Cost More Than Double What Wannabe Barristers Had Been Told To Expect
Barrister hopefuls had been told that the new Bar Course Aptitude Test (BCAT) would cost...
Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 20 February
US court delays execution of mentally disabled man Warren Hill [The Telegraph] Ten reasons why...