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Morning round-up: Friday 27 May
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Barrister who accused Bar Disciplinary Tribunal of ‘lack of impartiality and independence’ has appeals booted out
Immigration barrister, and a former joint head of a chambers in Birmingham, has had two appeals and two judicial review applications dismissed
Confirmed: Gay judge appointed as Master of the Rolls
History made as Sir Terence Etherton bags Lord Denning’s old job title
Southwark crown court sell-off as officials look to cash in on valuable Thames-side property
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BPP University student wins BARBRI Global Financial Crime Blogging Prize
Recent graduates from Trinity College Dublin and Essex University highly acclaimed
Psychoactive Substances Act BANNING legal highs comes into force today
New legislation has come under fire from many within the legal profession
Morning round-up: Thursday 26 May
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
How to get your fellow law students to pay for your summer holiday
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‘Lawyered up’: Mr Justice Peter Smith takes legal advice
Judge who is the subject of an ongoing judicial investigation into possible bias instructs corporate and financial crime specialist BCL Burton Copeland
Judge sacked for watching porn in his ‘private chambers’ reprimanded by SRA
Solicitor turned district judge was removed from judicial office in March 2015
US comic book giants defeated by BPP Law School student over right to use the word ‘superhero’
Goliath drops case against David
Morning round-up: Wednesday 25 May
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Fake lawyer who was jailed for tricking high-ranking judges BANNED from profession
Mohammed Kabba received a 16 month custodial sentence last summer for pretending to be a solicitor during an immigration case
Supreme Court REFUSES to hear Belgium-based White & Case lawyer’s case on why she should be able to vote in EU referendum
EU competition partner at US giant has no right to vote because she has lived outside the UK for more than 15 years
Juries of the future could be ‘transported’ to crime scenes using virtual reality headsets
Staffordshire University-led research hopes to revolutionise the way lawyers present criminal cases in court
Law is the hardest degree, says a law student
BAs are “so much easier”, according to the Oxford student who infected herself with typhoid
Morning round-up: Tuesday 24 May
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Cambridge, Oxford, LSE, King’s and Queen Mary top latest law school league table
Annual comprehensive rankings produced by The Guardian examine standards of teaching, level of feedback and overall quality of the course
Study slams BSB and chambers for failing to reveal diversity data
Damning study comes as top black judge launches campaign to address racism on the bench
Lawyers jump to Amal Clooney’s defence after she’s ripped to shreds by national press
Barristers: 1, “Well-known human rights experts” at the Daily Mail: 0
Interview: The 23 year-old Cambridge law grad behind the £315m Ryanair legal battle
Michael Green decided to do this instead of a training contract