‘I’m Glad I Didn’t Know Some Things I Said In Court Were Prattish: Ignorance Gives You The Freedom To Experiment’
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‘It Has Taken Me Almost A Decade To Drop My Non-Public School Chippiness’
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The 4 Bits Of The Bar Council Chair’s Inaugural Speech That Matter For Junior Barristers And Bar Wannabes
Last night’s speech by incoming Bar Council chair Maura McGowan… Read more »
‘A barrister’s rhetorical flourishes can be seductive, but eventually they become an irritating distraction’
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Standards Slipping At The Bar…
Picture courtesy of must-follow legal tweeter Jeremy Hopkins.
Stop Insulting Powerful People With Cruel ‘Twits’ Gibes, Urges Bar Standards Board Chief
Yesterday on her blog Bar Standards Board (BSB) chief Baroness… Read more »
Bar Social Mobility Week: Northerners Need Not Apply
This week is Bar social mobility placement week, with 69… Read more »
Minimum Pupillage Award ‘Limits Flow Of Talent To The Bar’
Keep the minimum wage for trainee solicitors, but scrap it… Read more »
Apprentice Star Sparks Daily Mail Pupillage Coffee-Making Row
“If you had someone trained as a barrister, you wouldn’t… Read more »
Dismissed: Wannabe Barrister’s Claim That Minimum Pupillage Award Is Discriminatory To Black Africans
Like many Bar graduates, John Iteshi couldn’t get a pupillage… Read more »
Through The Keyhole: Lincoln’s Inn Student Accommodation
City University BPTC student Jack Smith welcomes Legal Cheek duo… Read more »
EXCLUSIVE: Cottaging At The Inner Temple – Police Patrolling Sex Venue Toilets
Inner Temple has been forced to call in the police… Read more »
QC’s ‘Joke’ Lands Him In Trouble – But He’s Cleared Of Misconduct
As a coroner struggled to work her new iPad at… Read more »
Killing Time In Pre-Pupillage Purgatory
Pupillage-less prospective barrister Jack Smith is wary of forking out… Read more »
How To Get An Inns Of Court Scholarship
BPTC student Jack Smith, who’s in receipt of a full… Read more »
Bar Social Mobility Scheme Strikes Blow For The 99%
Inner Temple’s work experience initiative is infused with the spirit… Read more »
Got a 2:2? Want To Be a Barrister? Well, You’ve Got a Chance
While researching my article about sitting the Kaplan BPTC aptitude… Read more »
Legal Profession Is ‘Bedazzled By The Legend Of London’
In reality, the capital’s lawyers are no better than their… Read more »
Bar Should Be Restricted To Russell Group Graduates
Why incur the cost and hassle of an aptitude test… Read more »
Pupillage In The Provinces? Thanks, But No Thanks
London-based pupillage hunter OccupyTheInns thinks taking a position in the… Read more »
Becoming a QC: Easy as £4,200 inc VAT
The congratulations email received by today’s new QCs comes with…a… Read more »
EXCLUSIVE: BPTC Providers’ Wildly Differing Exam Lengths Provoke Unfairness Accusations
BPTC students are up in arms about the wildly differing… Read more »
Who Are You Calling a Paralegal?
The title of non-practising barrister needs to be given more… Read more »
Lord Justice of Appeal Slams MasterChef Hopefuls
When BBC series MasterChef set its contestants the task of… Read more »
‘Solicitor Advocates Are Destroying The Junior Bar’
If advocacy is your calling, don’t try to force the… Read more »
‘It’s More Likely To Be The QCs Getting Under Clerks Feet Than The Pupils’
Jeremy Hopkins, a clerk at a top commercial chambers, responds… Read more »
#RoundMyKitchenTable Exam Special: How Do You Revise And Apply For Jobs?
Taking a rare break from revising for his Bar Professional… Read more »
Camilla Becomes Honorary Barrister – as BPTC Fees Rise to £16.5K For The Proles
As the cost of doing the Bar Professional Training Course… Read more »
Time For Barristers To Put Hands in Their Pockets
Pupillage should be the test for Bar wannabes, not interviews… Read more »
Bar Overplays The Independence Card
Gratuitous individuality threatens to hold chambers back at critical period… Read more »
MP Demands Action After Legal Cheek Reveals £81K Theft Barrister is Still Practising
Today in the House of Commons, Leeds North West MP… Read more »
EXCLUSIVE: £81K Theft Barrister is STILL PRACTISING While On Bail Awaiting Sentencing
A barrister awaiting sentencing after admitting stealing £81,500 from his… Read more »
Son of ‘End of Lawyers’ Author Susskind is…a Law Student
Like the popular astrologist Shelley von Strunckel, legal futurologist Richard… Read more »
Barrister Rebuked for Impersonating Top QC
Yesterday the High Court dismissed barrister David Leathley’s appeal against… Read more »
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Should I study A-level law if I want to do a law degree? 
Blackstone Chambers and Simmons & Simmons lawyers representing BPP in the Supreme Court today 
An Uber-legal challenge: Jolyon Maugham QC crowdfunds more than £100,000 to launch VAT High Court case 
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Clyde & Co associate struck off after sending ‘misleading’ emails to conceal £500,000 error (15)
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