Tag: <span>Barristers</span>

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

Make a Difference: Sponsor a Pupil Barrister For Just £3 a Day

Andrew Jackson, a barrister at 5 Pump Court Chambers, has come up with a compelling...

Feb 14 2012 10:10am

Top QC Blasts The Times’ Cycling Campaign

Cycling-mad barrister Martin Porter QC has rounded on a safe cycling campaign launched by The...

Feb 9 2012 3:39pm

Barrister, 40: How I Netted Stunner, 25

It began in turquoise waters off Hapuna Beach in Maui. David Wilman, an employed barrister...

Feb 6 2012 10:06am

Legal Blogging’s Princess Diana Moment

The Bar Standards Board’s (BSB) striking off of legal blogging pioneer David Harris last week...

Feb 3 2012 1:30pm

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

BSB Finally Suspends £81K Theft Barrister – Before He Appears For Client In Front Of Judge Due To Sentence Him

In the last few hours the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has belatedly suspended David Friesner,...

Jan 31 2012 5:24pm

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

If You Can’t Bag a Pupillage in England Can You Do it Abroad?

Unable to secure a pupillage in London, Shafik Cassim has had more luck in Mauritius This...

Jan 30 2012 11:53am

#RoundMyKitchenTable: Poulter & Aldridge Meet the Shadow Attorney General

This week on the #RoundMyKitchenTable podcast shadow Attorney-General Emily Thornberry joins journalist Alex Aldridge and...

Jan 27 2012 3:00pm

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

Tweeting Barrister Struck-Off by BSB

Along with Mike Semple Piggot (@CharonQC), intellectual property barrister David Harris (@Geeklawyer) is one of...

Jan 27 2012 10:07am

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

Cycling QC Avenges Road Rage Torment

If there’s a moral to be taken from the legal news over the last couple...

Jan 24 2012 3:08pm

Barrister’s Error Sees Torturers Escape Jail

As the case of fake kidnap solicitor Francis Bridgeman (pictured) illustrates, lawyers sometimes make big,...

Jan 23 2012 5:07pm

I Spy With My Little Eye Something Beginning with ‘L’

Not many lawyer job adverts feature sentences like this: “Discretion is vital. You should not...

Jan 17 2012 4:05pm

Morning Round-Up: Friday 13 January

Manchester barrister faces prison for £81K theft – BBC Zimbabwe judge slams biased prosecutors –...

Jan 13 2012 8:51am

Minimum Trainee Solicitor Salary May Be Scrapped – Will Minimum Pupillage Award Be Next?

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has said there’s no regulatory justification for retaining the 30-year-old...

Jan 12 2012 11:24am

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

#RoundMyKitchenTable: Do the Inns of Court Need Modernising?

Why do the Inns of Court make public their combined £4.7m scholarship fund, but refuse...

Jan 6 2012 11:23am