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Becoming a QC: Easy as £4,200 inc VAT

The congratulations email received by today’s new QCs comes with…a bill for £4,200 (inclusive of…

Feb 29 2012 2:00pm
EXCLUSIVE: BPTC Providers’ Wildly Differing Exam Lengths Provoke Unfairness Accusations

BPTC students are up in arms about the wildly differing lengths of exam times between…

Feb 28 2012 10:31am
Who Are You Calling a Paralegal?

The title of non-practising barrister needs to be given more weight to reflect Bar school…

Feb 24 2012 1:39pm
Lord Justice of Appeal Slams MasterChef Hopefuls

When BBC series MasterChef set its contestants the task of cooking a qualifying session dinner…

Feb 23 2012 11:45am
‘Solicitor Advocates Are Destroying The Junior Bar’

If advocacy is your calling, don’t try to force the creation of a single, merged…

Feb 22 2012 11:19am
‘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 to last week’s controversial piece…

Feb 21 2012 11:03am

#RoundMyKitchenTable Exam Special: How Do You Revise And Apply For Jobs?

Taking a rare break from revising for his Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) exams, barrister-to-be…

Feb 17 2012 10:41am
Camilla Becomes Honorary Barrister – as BPTC Fees Rise to £16.5K For The Proles

As the cost of doing the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) rises another notch to…

Feb 16 2012 3:38pm
Time For Barristers To Put Hands in Their Pockets

Pupillage should be the test for Bar wannabes, not interviews – and wealthy barristers should…

Feb 15 2012 11:34am
Bar Overplays The Independence Card

Gratuitous individuality threatens to hold chambers back at critical period for the legal market, writes…

Feb 2 2012 11:34am
MP Demands Action After Legal Cheek Reveals £81K Theft Barrister is Still Practising

Today in the House of Commons, Leeds North West MP Greg Mulholland will call for…

Jan 31 2012 10:17am
EXCLUSIVE: £81K Theft Barrister is STILL PRACTISING While On Bail Awaiting Sentencing

A barrister awaiting sentencing after admitting stealing £81,500 from his former chambers represented a client…

Jan 27 2012 12:55pm

Son of ‘End of Lawyers’ Author Susskind is…a Law Student

Like the popular astrologist Shelley von Strunckel, legal futurologist Richard Susskind OBE makes his living…

Jan 26 2012 11:42am
Barrister Rebuked for Impersonating Top QC

Yesterday the High Court dismissed barrister David Leathley’s appeal against the Bar Standards Board’s (BSB)…

Jan 25 2012 11:22am
‘If You Want to Be an Actor and Earn Some Money, Become a Barrister’

Recently the actor Philip Glenister (pictured below), of Life on Mars and Mad Dogs fame,…

Jan 11 2012 9:40am
Errors, Unhappy Staff & Mediocre Students: BPTC Monitoring Results

Legal Cheek brings you the parts of the Bar Standards Board report the providers won’t…

Jan 9 2012 12:33pm
Don’t Believe the Law School Scholarship Hype

Yesterday a press release from the College of Law appeared in my inbox, headed COLLEGE…

Jan 5 2012 11:04am
MASTERING WHAT, EXACTLY?

Follow @FellowsAdam Bar graduate Adam Fellows isn’t convinced doing a masters degree is a good…

Dec 12 2011 9:29am

APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION

Follow @AlexAldridgeUK As the Christmas party season gets underway, Alex Aldridge is expecting great things…

Dec 8 2011 2:30pm
#RoundMyKitchenTable: LAWYERS AND PR

Legal Cheek editor Alex Aldridge, whose flat’s central heating is broken, turns on his oven…

Dec 2 2011 11:12am
AUNTIE EM’S HOMESPUN ADVICE FOR LAWYERS: “Pupillage is giving me nightmares”

Dear Auntie Em, I’m plagued by this terrible recurring dream I’ve been having since I…

Dec 1 2011 1:56pm

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