Tag: Barristers
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...
Pupillage application deadline extended (again) to Thursday 9 May
The Bar Council has extended the pupillage application deadline for a second time after disastrous...
Run Grayling Run
As a gesture of goodwill, we’ve included* Chris Grayling in our team for the London...
Newspapers’ categorisation of lawyers: a cut-out-and-keep guide
When The Observer conferred silk upon ‘Loverson’ barrister David Sherborne (who’s not a QC) on...
Pupillage application system fail – yet again
Update: the Pupillage Gateway deadline has been extended, for a second time, to Thursday 9...
When tweeting from a law firm Twitter account, be sure not to wish ‘death to all police’
A Canadian criminal lawyer is at the heart of a media storm after several highly...
Separated at birth? ‘Loverson’ barrister David Sherborne and his client Peter Andre
Or perhaps that orange glow is less about genes and more down to, er, grooming…...
Leaked CPS email details security breaches in robing room strewn with 999 tapes, confidential files and deodorant cans
Judging by an email leaked to us over the weekend, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)...