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Government sets up contempt of court hotline to social media companies
As report reveals that Google search tool is naming sex crime victims
It’s ‘foolish’ to blame the solicitor, says Afghan-born barrister stripped of case after client requested ‘white male’
Rehana Popal hit headlines last year after tweeting about incident
Irish law school apologises for ‘ill-judged’ Twitter response to mental health concerns
Maynooth Uni law student questioned decision to schedule land and equity exams the day after each other
Macfarlanes boosts LPC grant to £10,000 as it confirms 100% spring retention score
All six associates kept on
Email fraudsters impersonate Clifford Chance UK managing partner
Spell name wrong in dodgy emails
King’s College history student beats Oxbridge wannabe lawyers to ‘Advocate of the Year’ prize
Bar hopeful Tristan Greene victorious in BPP-backed comp
Struggling to understand how the SQE will affect you? This handy new calculator is here to help
Online tool determines students' best route to solicitor qualification
Ministry of Justice signs historic online betting deal (April Fool!)
Package includes court naming rights and judges’ robe sponsorship
Monday morning round-up
The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend
Lawyers among worst for phone etiquette
Irritating habits include eating and drinking or interrupting those speaking, research finds
Best of the blogs
Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts
Top UK legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg confronts heckler during debate
'You be quiet sir'
2 Bedford Row invites aspiring barristers to pupillage interview in error
Exclusive: Promptly disinvites them
Trinity College Dublin law profs split over whether student newspaper bugging halls to expose secret society’s ‘hazing’ was legal
Law school bigwigs wade into covert recording dispute
Head of Nottingham Law School teaching law firm to join other top non-Russell Group academics at expanded Future of Legal Education and Training Conference
New session on clinical legal education to also feature universities Swansea and Northumbria, and leading apprenticeships provider
Linklaters and Clifford Chance latest firms to pay for gender reassignment surgery
Transitioning support also available for lawyers and support staff
It’s not ‘virtue-signalling’: 20 Essex Street QC hits back at critics of contextual recruitment system
Decision to embrace City law hiring process drew fire from Legal Cheek readers
Lawyerly advice to pupil barristers: ‘Imagine the judge is slightly hard of hearing and a bit daft’
Words of wisdom (and a few poetic metaphors) for fresh-faced practitioners