Tag: Barristers

Amalarella: A legal profession Christmas pantomime

Amal Clooney joins Lady Hale, Charlotte Proudman, Lord Harley, Judge Rinder and other top lawyers in Katie King's festive marvel

Dec 23 2015 11:02am

Christmas carol gets the lawyer treatment — and it’s soul-destroying

If the Grinch got hold of a hymn, this is what it would look like

Dec 23 2015 9:37am

Top lawyers’ horror at prospect of putting a dead man on trial

Lord Janner "trial of facts" would be a modern legal first

Dec 21 2015 5:41pm

Crime doesn’t pay: Students who opt for bar glamour careers will always earn way less than kids who choose safe corporate route

Thinking of a career at the criminal bar? You could be over £40,000 better off working in Aldi

Dec 18 2015 11:57am

Someone has created a spoof LinkedIn account for the ‘UK’s top barrister’

It is even less humble than Michael Wolkind QC's actual website

Dec 18 2015 10:56am

Court of Appeal refers ‘UK’s top barrister’ to regulator over his incredible website

Michael Wolkind QC's “inappropriate attempts at humour” during murder trial will also be scrutinised by Bar Standards Board

Dec 17 2015 11:32am

11KBW ups pupillage award from £55,000 to £65,000

But top commercial set still pays £7,500 less than most generous chambers

Dec 16 2015 11:42am

Top EU law academic tells parliament to stop being so selfish about human rights

UK government needs to set a good example to other countries

Dec 15 2015 5:05pm

Criminal barristers are paid £2.40 an hour but I still see why people want to do their job

Legal Cheek's Katie King meets a bunch of broke bar rookies -- and is charmed

Dec 15 2015 12:18pm

Pupil barrister hit with £1,000 fine after plagiarising skeleton argument in moot competition

Bar Standards Board refuses to reveal the chambers at which Samuel Campbell practises

Dec 15 2015 9:23am

Rookie criminal barrister charged with conspiracy to supply cocaine

Junior who was called in 2009 to spend Christmas behind bars

Dec 10 2015 9:24am

Britain could legally ban Donald Trump from entering the country, but would we want to?

It's do-able, but perhaps unwise, say top immigration lawyers

Dec 9 2015 12:57pm

The BPTC is a ‘rip-off’ says former head of Bar Standards Board

Ridiculously low pupillage success rate highlighted by Baroness Deech

Dec 8 2015 4:06pm

‘X-Factorish bollocks’: Bar Council slammed for endorsing junior barrister’s ‘Never give up!’ blog

UCL legal academic and top QC lead criticism of regulator for sharing touching story

Dec 7 2015 10:13am

Research: 74% of lawyers will push workplace boundaries at Christmas party

Snogging, sex and heavy boozing -- it's festive season for law firms

Dec 4 2015 9:22am

Gove scraps Grayling’s Criminal Courts Charge

Lord Chancellor's move gets thumbs-up from lawyers

Dec 3 2015 12:33pm

Judge Rinder speaks out against swingeing legal aid cuts

A lawyer that doesn’t like Grayling? Who'd have thought it?

Dec 3 2015 11:31am

Barrister fined £60 for using dead mother’s disabled blue badge to park outside court

Fraud specialist described it as a “moment of aberration”

Dec 2 2015 4:33pm

Supreme Court takes down Marks & Spencer in a momentous case set to impact LLB-ers

Sorry law students -- even more land law to learn

Dec 2 2015 2:39pm