Tag: Barristers
Barrister offers domestic cleaning and gardening service
In these difficult times for the junior Bar, it’s good to see one of its...
‘There are moments in court when you wish the ground would swallow you up’
9-12 Bell Yard head of chambers Mukul Chawla QC wishes he’d been able to make...
Is it still worth being a legal aid lawyer?
Last night, at the launch of a report on social mobility in the legal profession...
Bar Standards Board chief: ‘There are too many people at the Bar’ and BPTC entry threshold ‘has to be higher’
The head of the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has suggested that the Bar is too...
Have you seen missing BPTC graduate Gianni Sonvico?
23 year-old Kaplan Law School Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) graduate Gianni Sonvico has been...
Cash-strapped BPTC students turn to practitioners texts for fitness needs
A group of Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) students has shown how wannabe lawyers can...
Pupillage-less Bar grad who used ‘barrister’ title to commit massive fraud is struck off
A Bar graduate who failed to secure pupillage has been stripped of the right to...
The 19 stages of the BPTC
A journey through the sorrow and the joy of the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC)...
How to broadcast your status as a free legal work champion to the nation’s road users
This personalised number plate — photographed last week by Alex Altman — doesn’t, somehow, seem...
The language of the legal directory: Decoded
Wigapedia reveals the harsh reality behind the euphemisms used by the Legal 500 and Chambers...
‘Dozens’ of extra 2014 pupillages could be created by new Inns of Court subsidy scheme
The Inns of Court are to cover 50% of the cost of some pupillage awards...
‘I have found myself on more than one occasion having to bite my tongue’
OccupyTheInns’ excitement at starting pupillage is tempered by frustration at the hierarchical nature of chambers...
This is how broke criminal barristers are
A divorce law barrister has posted a series of tweets laying bare just how broke...
A guide to determining which type of fat cat lawyer the Daily Mail thinks you are
Blackfriars Chambers criminal barrister John Mack has created this useful cut-out-and-keep guide (click on image...
Three lawyers feature in The Independent’s ‘Pink List’ 2013
The legal profession is healthily represented in this year’s ‘Pink List’, with three of its...
‘Although the choices you make in your twenties matter, they are rarely life threatening’
Barrister-turned-cartoonist Alex Williams feared expulsion when he cheated on a piece of work that his...
If I knew then what I know now — at the Google Campus
This evening’s event is fully booked — but any returns will be available on the...
The 16 most amusing Queen’s Counsel cartoons ever
As The Times’ Queen’s Counsel cartoon turns 20 — and marks its anniversary with a...
‘Barrister Hottie Experts’ crash Young Bar Anniversary Dinner
On Friday evening the “Barrister Hottie Experts” behind Tumblr sensation Your Barrister Boyfriend defied the...
‘Courtroom anarchy’ barrister who was slammed by Lord Judge hits back with disputed facts claim
Tooks barrister Lawrence McNulty has responded to the outgoing Lord Chief Justice’s strongly-worded criticism of...
‘This generation of lawyers has been unbelievably lucky…the next will pay the price unless they heed the signs’
Karl Chapman, the chief executive of one of the most well-known new legal businesses, Riverview...