Tag: Barristers

Legal charity launches new family law focused social welfare pupillage scheme

Special two-year fellowship that will see successful candidates split their time between Bar Pro Bono Unit and chambers

Apr 14 2016 10:32am

Sheffield barrister who was jailed for teen sex attack after successful Crimewatch appeal booted out of profession

Criminal barrister Desmond Rosario was jailed for four years last summer

Apr 13 2016 3:09pm

Solicitor General under pressure over blind trust disclosure

As students of equity & trusts will of course know, the arrangement allows Robert Buckland QC's financial affairs to remain secret

Apr 13 2016 9:40am

Official Solicitor to the Senior Courts appears as litigant-in-person in private dispute

Exclusive: Alastair Pitblado and his fiancée in High Court today -- acting for themselves in £150k planning row

Apr 11 2016 9:07am

Man behind criminal law syllabus shake up to face retrial for murder

An appeal by Ameen Jogee saw the law on joint enterprise drastically changed, but his fate still hangs in the balance

Apr 7 2016 4:07pm

Off the Cuff: Dress Code shocker as HMP Belmarsh seeks to ban visiting lawyers from wearing cufflinks

First they came for our cufflinks… bar appalled at what might be banned next

Apr 5 2016 2:51pm

65% of kids think lawyers are men

And they drew some delightful pictures to demonstrate this

Apr 5 2016 9:04am

Who’s to blame when an April Fool goes wrong?

All fun and games until someone loses an eye

Apr 1 2016 1:40pm

Doughty Street junior barrister replaces Shami Chakrabarti as director of Liberty

Martha Spurrier was called to the bar in 2010, the same year as Amal Clooney

Mar 31 2016 1:24pm

Britain’s first black female High Court judge opens up about racism at the bar

Clerks would Tippex out her name on briefs and write in the name of male pupil they wanted to be the tenant

Mar 30 2016 1:11pm

How to turn pupillage interview failure into success

Daring to be honest can be a turning point

Mar 30 2016 12:10pm

Inns of Court quietly open applications for big money Graduate Diploma in Law scholarships

Over half a million quid up for grabs for wannabe lawyers

Mar 30 2016 9:24am

Top social media barrister says screenshotting Snapchats is unlikely to be illegal

Christina Michalos pours scorn on “extremely misleading” tabloid analysis

Mar 29 2016 1:42pm

England cricket legend takes to Twitter to ask how lawyers can defend terrorists — barrister responds and gets blocked

Michael Vaughan poses a clichéd question that lawyers are really tired of hearing

Mar 29 2016 11:02am

Junior barrister admits supplying drugs that killed teenage boyfriend at Temple party

Strand Chambers’ Henry Hendron will be sentenced on 3 May

Mar 23 2016 12:12pm

Top EU law chambers ups pupillage award to £65,000 as Brexit vote looms

Monckton Chambers chucks an extra £5,000 at its junior legal talent

Mar 23 2016 9:19am