Tag: Barristers

Bar Council switches pupillage offer day after date clash blunder

Bar hopeful D-day now 3 May 2017

Oct 31 2016 1:10pm

Barrister who posted anti-Semitic tweets booted out of profession

Social media posts referenced Jews, pro-Zionists, Muslims and chavs

Oct 28 2016 1:07pm

Twitter goes quiet as BBC reports ‘categorically denied’ allegation against top QC

Usually chatty legal Twitterati eerily silent

Oct 28 2016 11:43am

Lawyers react to ‘deeply concerning’ draft law that would keep alleged rapists in the dark about who accused them

One said this nonsense wasn’t doing his blood pressure any good

Oct 27 2016 11:10am

Lawyers split over Ched Evans rape acquittal debate

Charlotte Proudman even hung up phone in radio interview bust-up about the issue

Oct 19 2016 9:00am

Brexit legal challenge: Lord Chief Justice condemns ‘abusers’ targeting claimants

Access to justice will not be compromised by threats

Oct 17 2016 12:46pm

Cash-strapped young barristers feeling more ‘lost’ and ‘depressed’ than ever

Uncertainty not helped by coming online justice revolution

Oct 17 2016 10:33am

Beyond Marmite: justice committee invites views on implications of Brexit

MPs say they want to steer clear of "for and against" arguments

Oct 14 2016 9:42am

‘There is no going back’: Lord Pannick QC kicks off Brexit legal challenge

There were protesters dressed as lawyers outside the High Court

Oct 13 2016 12:58pm

Lord Sumption tells aspiring lawyers not to do a law degree

Do a history degree instead, says the history graduate

Oct 11 2016 8:55am

£5 million up for grabs as Inns of Court open BPTC scholarship applications

Bar hopefuls have less than a month to apply

Oct 10 2016 10:26am

APPEAL: Help One Crown Office Row barrister Matthew Heywood find his stolen wig

The very same wig was stolen from him four years ago, but he managed to get it back

Oct 7 2016 12:16pm

I have a learning difficulty and am gay – will I succeed at the bar?

The legal profession and its true approach to diversity

Oct 7 2016 10:58am

BSB and Bar Council schedule BTPC civil litigation exam on pupillage offer day

"We are now looking into alternative dates and options" say bar big wigs

Oct 7 2016 10:04am