Tag: Barristers

MoJ’s criminal bar pay proposals under fire over fears baby barristers will lose out

Legal aid changes described as 'a nasty whack for junior hacks'

Jan 6 2017 9:43am

Bar Council appoints crime QC as second non-London chairman in three years

And commercial rookie is new Young Bar chief

Jan 4 2017 9:09am

‘Law has become a massive gravy train’: Tabloid newspaper kicks off 2017 with a scathing anti-lawyer article

Seems the Daily Mail hasn't made a 'be nicer to the legal profession' resolution

Jan 3 2017 12:40pm

The 15 most popular Legal Cheek stories of 2016

A look back on the top posts that hauled in the most hits

Dec 27 2016 9:22am

#Freelegaltips: Lawyers take to Twitter to share hilarious stories of client stupidity

Don't thrust your genitalia through a stranger's letterbox

Dec 22 2016 10:12am

Interview: The Linklaters solicitor and the 5 Paper Buildings barrister who swapped cases for cakes

They have very different stories, but both agree working in law made them “miserable”

Dec 20 2016 9:05am

Mayor Sadiq Khan appoints another lawyer to top London politics post

Barrister who saved Fabric nightclub tasked with boosting capital’s night-time economy

Dec 19 2016 12:59pm

Legal aid pay row: Doughty Street QC rounds on claims lawyers’ earnings have ‘rocketed’

Publicly funded barristers still broke, says publicly funded barrister

Dec 19 2016 10:25am

Christmas time merger for 1 Gray’s Inn Square and Mansfield Chambers

Media heavyweights collide as Charlotte Proudman’s former set joins forces with Barbara Hewson’s

Dec 16 2016 2:58pm

Leading silk slapped with £2,000 fine for making inappropriate ‘sexual advances’ towards woman at hotel bar

Former barrister of the year "failed to act with integrity", regulator finds

Dec 16 2016 2:18pm

QC at the centre of Brexit legal challenge forced to defend working class background in wake of Twitter abuse

Yes my father is an ex-Etonian author, but he denied paternity, says Jolyon Maugham

Dec 15 2016 12:16pm

Bristol University law student lands advocacy honours in BPP-backed national competition

Aspiring barrister Lucy Bennett crowned advocate of the year

Dec 15 2016 9:52am

Investigation concludes Matrix Chambers’ Ben Emmerson QC did NOT commit sexual assault

The top lawyer was accused of attacking a woman in a lift

Dec 14 2016 1:35pm

Police, priests and hairdressers more ‘trusted’ than lawyers, according to research

But judges fared better in new 'Veracity Index'

Dec 7 2016 3:27pm

BPP’s firefighting BPTC student stars in Boots festive advert

Lucy Masoud is hoping to swap the yellow helmet for a horsehair wig

Dec 7 2016 9:53am

University of Law unveils BPTC LLM as it slashes cost of standard barrister course

Those taking masters can apply for £10,000 of postgraduate funding

Dec 5 2016 4:06pm