Tag: Barristers

Government publishes Brexit legal advice in full
Just a day after MPs found it in contempt of parliament

Incoming bar chief throws support behind Inns of Court BPTC
Training shake-up 'marvellous development', says Richard Atkins QC

UK can cancel Brexit, top EU legal adviser says
As senior Tory ministers face contempt vote over refusal to publish 'Chequers deal' legal advice

I landed a pupillage when I stopped trying to look and talk like a barrister
Ahead of Legal Cheek’s ‘How to make it as a barrister’ event in London tomorrow, ULaw future pupil programme coordinator Joseph O’Leary shares his top tips

Let public access courts through smartphones, says Lord Chief Justice
Top judge backs mobile ‘optimised’ hearings

Doughty Street barrister Amal Clooney and actor husband ‘set to become’ godparents to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s royal baby
‘All but confirmed’, media report claims

I am quitting my high-flying advertising role to chase my barrister dream
Are there any specific types of legal experience which look more impressive than others?

Improving junior lawyer wellbeing requires a cultural change, taskforce tells law firms
Long hours and billing targets among biggest contributors to poor mental health

Brexit case that ‘could decide the fate of the nation’ heard by 27 judges in Luxembourg
Opinion due on 4 December

The scenic route to the commercial bar
Ahead of Legal Cheek’s latest bar student event, ‘How to make it as a barrister’, on the evening of Tuesday 4 December, Hardwicke barrister Laurence Page tells us about his unusual career journey to date

Labour would stop BPTC ‘racket’ run by ‘profiteers’
Let Inns offer the vocational course, says shadow attorney-general Baroness Chakrabarti

Drunken criminal barrister who asked pupil if he’d ‘ever taken a woman from behind’ is fined £1,000
The tribunal's decision is open to appeal

Five barristers to share secrets of securing pupillage and forging successful careers at the bar
Practitioners from 5 Essex Court, Hardwicke, 4 New Square and Landmark, and ULaw BPTC grad future pupil, to share experiences at free Legal Cheek student event on evening of Tuesday 4 December in London

New CPS chief turns up at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court to spend morning prosecuting
Max Hill QC rolls up his sleeves and joins the front line

Research: 50% of lawyers dislike their job
Many feel undervalued and bored

‘Idealistic’ future lawyers may find themselves disappointed in practice, says ex-Supreme Court president Lord Neuberger
Temper idealism with realism instead

10 tips for getting a training contract or pupillage
Find your unique selling point

Blackstone QC’s sex harassment suspension BLOCKED by peers
Vote reportedly 'forced' by fellow Blackstone silk Lord Pannick

Bar Council launches support hotline for stressed barristers
New wellbeing initiative also includes self-help programmes, fact sheets and videos