Tag: Barristers

A Publicly Funded Christmas Carol: The competitively-tendered trial of Lord Chancellor Scrooge

WaitroseLaw returns with the final instalment of her festive fable (you can read the whole...

Dec 24 2013 8:47am

Team Nigella stoops to personal insult against victorious 4 Breams Buildings barrister

Nigella Lawson’s journalist brother Dominic has mocked the “(impressive) rear end” of the barrister for...

Dec 23 2013 12:44pm

The Something Must Be Done Act 2014

Lawyer and blogger David Allen Green has had enough of tiresome legislation and meddlesome courts…...

Dec 20 2013 9:51am

The end of the day round-up

“At least Mr Myerson has the courage to use his own name when being ‘witty’…I...

Dec 19 2013 4:34pm

A Publicly Funded Christmas Carol: ‘I see an insurance company call centre and a slowly disintegrating wig’

Waitrose Law returns with the third instalment of her legal profession festive fable (here are...

Dec 19 2013 2:02pm

How to speak lawyer: a guide for trainee solicitors and pupil barristers

The relationship between a trainee/pupil and their supervising lawyer is a complex one, fraught with...

Dec 17 2013 8:40am

A Publicly Funded Christmas Carol: The Barrister Hottie Ghost of Christmas Past

Waitrose Law returns with the second instalment of her legal profession festive fable (part one...

Dec 16 2013 11:59am

Cool off this unseasonably warm December with an ‘ice cream with lawyer’

All these enticing scoops of ice cream lack are some solicitor and barrister sprinkles…

Dec 16 2013 9:34am

‘Turning a story round as a journalist is closer to the process of preparing a late brief for a trial than I ever imagined’

Changing careers isn’t easy, says Catherine Urquhart of her switch from journalist at The Times...

Dec 13 2013 8:48am

12 of the least glamorous court buildings in England and Wales

Certain courts will never grace the pages of glossy law school brochures — with good...

Dec 12 2013 9:05am

A Publicly Funded Christmas Carol

A Festive Fable PART ONE The legal profession was dead, to begin with. Christopher Scrooge...

Dec 11 2013 12:23pm

Frontman of company seeking to ‘revolutionise’ criminal law makes grammatically incorrect bestiality slur against bemused barrister

Last night on Twitter the public face of a heavily-hyped new legal market entrant launched...

Dec 10 2013 10:29am

Kingston Crown Court unveils a lunch deal of such complexity that even lawyers can’t understand it

Can anyone decipher the meaning of Kingston Crown Court’s incredibly complicated lunch deal?

Dec 9 2013 1:07pm

Is this the most whirlwind pupillage application schedule ever?

Several pupillage hopefuls have alerted us to the incredibly fast pupillage application schedule being operated...

Dec 9 2013 9:37am

‘I was offered pupillage at the second chambers I applied to’

Unlike his friend, who crashed his hired Jaguar into the chambers where he was interviewing,...

Dec 5 2013 1:15pm

Podcast: How barristers can make an impact on social mobility

We gathered together Young Barristers’ Committee chair Hannah Kinch, Citizenship Foundation programme manager Paul Bower...

Dec 4 2013 1:01pm

Chair of Young Barristers’ Committee says she’d still advise students without wealthy parents to go to the criminal Bar

EXCLUSIVE: Young Barristers’ Committee of the Bar Council chair Hannah Kinch has made a robust...

Dec 4 2013 9:53am

Just when you thought national newspaper picture editors couldn’t select a more inappropriate law photo…

They’ve all been at it lately. Last month the Guardian committed the relatively minor offence...

Dec 4 2013 8:59am

The QC who has been hauling in more Twitter followers than the Pope and Stephen Fry

Just five days after Gary Bell QC joined Twitter last month and he had amassed...

Dec 2 2013 8:59am

The 16 finest lawyer Movember tashes

Throughout the month we’ve been keeping track of the moustaches being grown by the nation’s...

Nov 29 2013 9:02am