Tag: Barristers
Why do wannabe barristers have to accept their BPTC place before they know if they’ve got an Inns scholarship?
The conventional wisdom is that students are unwise to do the Bar Professional Training Course...
Will lawyers fall for the government’s ‘wholesale privatisation of justice’ PR trick?
During the consultation over the scrapping of the trainee solicitor minimum salary last year, the...
Are the Inner Temple toilets still a leading cottaging hotspot?
Readers may recall the spot of bother Inner Temple had last year with cottagers, who...
Video: the Downfall of Chris Grayling
Justice secretary Chris Grayling has become the latest victim of the Downfall meme, in which...
Obscenity Lawyer: How to create a niche doing something you’re passionate about
As you’d expect, Myles Jackman – aka “Obscenity Lawyer” – has some great stories. My...
6 animals that look like Chris Grayling
Some have lampooned Chris Grayling for his lack of a legal qualification. Others have sought...
Going, going, gone – to the person with £2,660 to blow on legal work experience
Westminster School has completed its controversial auction of work experience at the criminal Bar, with...
In pictures: today’s legal aid protest
This morning’s demonstration against the government’s legal aid proposals saw 500 plus lawyers take to...
‘The tide may flood law firms, but I remain unconvinced that it will engulf the Bar’
The profession which I am to join in September as a pupil barrister is facing...
‘New Fathers 4 Justice’ set to disrupt London Legal Walk
Protest group New Fathers 4 Justice is promising to send a team of superheroes to...
Taxi for the bar – and the music industry?
The Stobart Group’s foray into law may just be the beginning of a campaign for...
‘I’ve come quite a long way since leaving Hull University with a Desmond’
In the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I know now’ series,...
‘I won’t be working for a corporation that views defendants as tongue-and-rectum sausage pate to be stuffed through the machine’
A rookie criminal barrister contemplates an uncertain future… The spirit of Thatcherism looms large over...
BSB powerless to intervene in Westminster School’s mini-pupillage auction
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has said that there is nothing it can do to...
How to write a successful law blog – and land a job off the back of it
As Hardwicke Building found out last week, lawyers who enjoy writing in their free time...
How long until the Stobart Barrister-Tracker App?
Surely, if it works for lorries…. “Stobarts have promised me that the next version of...
Argent Chambers barrister Jerry Hayes in BBC Question Time nightmare
Hopes were high when it was announced that criminal barrister and former Tory MP Jerry...
BSB: Ethics exam that contained mock paper questions is ‘not invalid’
Finally, a month and a half after the infamous Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) ethics...
Hardwicke Chambers ‘shocked by the views’ of barrister who called for age of consent to be lowered to 13
Yesterday, Spiked published a highly controversial article about Operation Yewtree by Hardwicke Chambers barrister Barbara...
Westminster School auctions a mini-pupillage – current bid £750
Struggling to secure work experience in the ultra-competitive environment of the Bar? Well, thanks to...
Guildhall Chambers becomes latest set to stop offering criminal pupillages
Bristol-based Guildhall Chambers has followed London set Charter Chambers in withdrawing its criminal pupillage for...