Tag: Barristers

Last chance to buy first release tickets for Future of Legal Education and Training Conference 2019
Only five weeks to go until day-long event at Kings Place London on 22 May

Jailed sex assault barrister disbarred
Clyde Stevens handed 10-year prison term in 2017

New trade union targets overworked junior lawyers
Legal Sector Workers United wants trainees and pupils to help fight oppression and inequality

Exchange Chambers to double pupillage intake next year
Northern behemoth to take on six pupils in 2020

Why one barrister quit her job to become a successful restaurateur
Nisha Katona had been practising for 20 years

City lawyer whose ‘sexist’ LinkedIn message sparked media frenzy switches firms
Alexander Carter-Silk made headlines in 2015 after praising Charlotte Proudman's 'stunning' profile photo

Doughty Street’s Amal Clooney lands UK foreign office role
Human rights barrister appointed media freedom envoy

Child porn barrister who claimed Nazis planned to blow up the Queen fails to overturn disbarment
No return to the bar for Michael Shrimpton

Sexism from judges exaggerated, says Lord Chief Justice
Small number of examples give 'false impression'

Be prepared to forge your own path to legal practice
A panel of lawyers reveal their unconventional routes into law

Six bar big hitters to speak at Future of Legal Education and Training Conference 2019
Dedicated barrister session to feature practitioners from Hardwicke and Cornerstone, alongside BPTC heads, academics and Inns' director

It’s ‘foolish’ to blame the solicitor, says Afghan-born barrister stripped of case after client requested ‘white male’
Rehana Popal hit headlines last year after tweeting about incident

Top UK legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg confronts heckler during debate
'You be quiet sir'

2 Bedford Row invites aspiring barristers to pupillage interview in error
Exclusive: Promptly disinvites them

It’s not ‘virtue-signalling’: 20 Essex Street QC hits back at critics of contextual recruitment system
Decision to embrace City law hiring process drew fire from Legal Cheek readers

Lawyerly advice to pupil barristers: ‘Imagine the judge is slightly hard of hearing and a bit daft’
Words of wisdom (and a few poetic metaphors) for fresh-faced practitioners

Jolyon Maugham QC suffers backlash on Twitter after calling High Court judge ‘pro-Government’
Campaigning silk defends comments after criticism from fellow lawyers, including The Secret Barrister

Litigant in person throws White Book at barrister
Lawyer lent self-representing claimant practitioners' text at judge's request