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Police investigate after sex attack on paralegal’s miniature Shetland pony

Tiny horse was found badly injured, with two separate internal injuries

Oct 30 2015 11:47am

The unintentionally positive effects of the Witchcraft Act are still being felt today

Laws against witchcraft were pivotal in the creation of modern concepts of evidence; they also gave women a voice in court as witnesses

Oct 30 2015 10:00am

Not accepting students with 2:2s is ‘discriminatory’, argues top legal academic

Dr Steven Vaughan says degree class doesn’t tell the whole story

Oct 30 2015 9:09am

City law firm trainee pukes on senior colleagues at awards ceremony

Stephenson Harwood rookie "extremely embarrassed" after vomiting on three associates

Oct 30 2015 8:33am

Morning round-up: Friday 30 October

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Oct 30 2015 8:18am

Lawyers: a car park comparison

Image captures difference between haves and have-nots in corporate law

Oct 29 2015 5:28pm

Top Blackstone Chambers QC rejects Oxford prof’s claim that technology will destroy legal profession

Lawyers survived email and Twitter -- and they'll survive everything else, predicts David Pannick QC

Oct 29 2015 1:59pm

Blogging ex-judge gives exclusive insight into one of most influential cases of past 150 years

Former Court of Appeal man reveals what it was like to decide Re A (conjoined twins)

Oct 29 2015 12:24pm

Humans star Gemma Chan reveals that she nearly joined Slaughter and May

Oxford law graduate did vac scheme at magic circle firm

Oct 29 2015 11:27am

The top 15 law fair freebies of 2015

The stash creating the biggest stir on campus

Oct 29 2015 9:51am

Morning-round: Thursday 29 October

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Oct 29 2015 7:57am

Halloween is coming: Witch takes ‘world’s best-known warlock’ to court over harassment claims

Witches versus warlocks -- but who will triumph in court?

Oct 28 2015 3:05pm

Mysterious barrister lifts lid on cocaine-fuelled life at the bar

Courts are apparently full of coke-head lawyers ogling jury members

Oct 28 2015 11:47am

New Legally Blonde film could feature Elle Woods as a Supreme Court judge

Reese Witherspoon has serious ambitions for her character

Oct 28 2015 10:41am

Supreme Court hears joint enterprise case that could shake up criminal law syllabuses

Key legal principle could be overhauled -- and the whole process is being charted live via video and social media

Oct 28 2015 9:53am

Morning round-up: Wednesday 28 October

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Oct 28 2015 7:50am

Smart-dressing Royal Holloway law student slams ‘tracksuit slob’ classmates for judging her

Fresher goes public with pain at "passive-aggressive" remarks from casually-dressed peers

Oct 27 2015 9:29pm

Author of criminal law bible profiled in Mail Online as relationship guru

Jonathan Herring -- of ‘Criminal Law: Texts, Cases and Materials’ fame -- has diversified

Oct 27 2015 2:25pm

Junior corporate solicitor quits law to become boxing promoter

Former CMS Cameron McKenna legacy firm man, 29, to use legal skills to emulate Don King

Oct 27 2015 12:34pm

Most Lists 2016: There are lots of junior women solicitors, but everywhere else in legal profession is dominated by men

Being a partner, a QC or even a rookie barrister is largely a man's game

Oct 27 2015 9:10am