Tag: Barristers

Study slams BSB and chambers for failing to reveal diversity data

Damning study comes as top black judge launches campaign to address racism on the bench

May 23 2016 2:38pm

Amanda Yip QC: ‘I started off as a criminal barrister and I’d do the same today’

Regional super chambers model still allows legal aid practitioners to thrive

May 23 2016 11:27am

Pissed off criminal barristers have been tweeting about how rubbish their jobs are

A stark glimpse of the “glamorous” reality of the criminal bar

May 20 2016 4:48pm

Top Manchester QC questions Andy Burnham’s claim that it’s harder for northerners to become lawyers

It's grim up north for law students, indicates Manchester mayoral hopeful

May 20 2016 12:16pm

Mr Justice Peter Smith is BARRED from hearing Addleshaw Goddard cases

The battle continues as list of firms and lawyers over whom he can no longer adjudicate grows and grows

May 18 2016 1:54pm

Lawyers try their hand at law-themed poetry, with hilarious results

#barristerpoetry brings light-hearted fun to steely profession

May 18 2016 12:54pm

The best pictures from the London Legal Walk

Policemen on stilts and lots and lots of dogs

May 17 2016 12:16pm

Telly quiz show barrister accused of deliberately answering questions wrongly on charity special of The Chase

Quiz fans accuse criminal barrister of foul play so celebs can land charity jackpot

May 17 2016 10:43am

Advocacy charity launches Teach First for wannabe lawyers

Brand new grad scheme launched for barrister hopefuls

May 17 2016 9:22am

‘I will no longer support your Chambers’: Top judge’s incredible letter to elite set Blackstone emerges in bias row

The full letter by Mr Justice Peter Smith revealed, as he is barred from hearing Blackstone barristers' cases

May 17 2016 8:07am

Junior barrister who supplied drugs that killed teenage boyfriend accepts his legal career is over

Last week Strand Chambers’ Henry Hendron was sentenced to 140 hours of unpaid work and an 18-month supervision order

May 16 2016 2:22pm

Law groups unify to create mental health taskforce

The move comes as research earlier this year revealed more than a third of calls to charity helpline were from stressed-out junior lawyers

May 16 2016 11:08am

Capital’s lawyers limber up for London Legal Walk

All the legal celebs will be there

May 16 2016 8:57am

Liverpool anger as Hillsborough QC is nominated for ‘Barrister of the Year’

John Beggs QC targeted in local press and on social media

May 13 2016 4:05pm

Cambridge academic rounds on Charlotte Proudman for writing same article ‘over and over again’

Lawyers aren’t very happy with latest piece from the LinkedIn row barrister

May 13 2016 10:43am

BPP Law School loses BPTC ethics exam papers during marking process

Exclusive: Wannabe barristers at London's Holborn branch could have to re-do the exam in August

May 13 2016 9:50am

Would you be sent home from a law firm for refusing to wear high heels?

Female lawyers’ need to look the part -- a pressure that won’t go away

May 12 2016 5:14pm

Vladimir Putin is poster boy for satirical anti-UK Snoopers’ Charter campaign

Russian President is joined by political leaders including Chinese President Xi Jinping appearing to endorse controversial bill

May 12 2016 12:38pm

BPTC satisfaction survey results: student happiness surprisingly unrelated to chances of pupillage success

Bar course experience better in the regions -- even if life afterwards often isn't

May 12 2016 9:06am