Tag: Barristers

Research: Over 70% of top judges and barristers are privately educated or Oxbridge

Little progress on social mobility at Bar for quarter of a century

Feb 24 2016 12:06pm

Renegade lawyers at Slaughters and CMS lead campaign to get UK out of EU

Lawyers for Britain rallies support for Brexit crusade

Feb 24 2016 11:30am

Students may have to fork out as much as £127k to chase barrister dream

Bar Council chair warns of escalating cost to enter profession

Feb 23 2016 12:34pm

Family lawyers feel the strain as number of care cases skyrocket

More and more care applications are being made, meaning more and more work for family lawyers

Feb 23 2016 9:23am

Silk day: Boris takes Brexit break to celebrate wife’s QC appointment

Social media awash with full bottomed wigs and silver buckled shoes

Feb 22 2016 2:05pm

Lawyers with brilliant names you just couldn’t make up

From Cinderela and beyond

Feb 19 2016 11:01am

Social mobility initiative goes north as Bar Placement Week makes Liverpool debut

QCs of the future could come from under privileged families outside London, and the Bar Council wants to boost odds of finding them

Feb 19 2016 10:02am

Regulation that plagued family lawyers declared ‘invalid’ by Court of Appeal

Chris Grayling's changes to rules on domestic abuse sufferers getting legal aid don't stand up to scrutiny

Feb 18 2016 2:48pm

Criminal law syllabuses to get makeover as Supreme Court gives landmark joint enterprise judgment

Felicity Gerry QC and Adam Wagner victorious as court changes the law

Feb 18 2016 12:02pm

1,000-year-old tradition of recording laws on goat and calf skin hangs in balance

Peers say scrap tradition in favour of £80,000 a year savings

Feb 16 2016 9:21am

15 great photos of dogs dressed as lawyers

Dog lawyers is even more of a thing than cat lawyers

Feb 12 2016 10:34am

Pupillage interviews uncovered: law students filmed being grilled by top barristers

We spoke to a BPTC graduate who featured in a new interview project

Feb 11 2016 2:36pm

Ministry of Justice confirms 86 courts across England and Wales WILL close

Twenty-two that are set to close will be relocated to other sites

Feb 11 2016 1:54pm

How Jihadi John journalist used law degree and barrister training to kick-start his career

University of Westminster grad credits LLB and bar course with putting him on road to success

Feb 11 2016 9:34am

Proudman v Delilah?

Zero tolerance for Welsh rugby songs

Feb 9 2016 2:27pm

UKIP gay rights barrister quits party due to ‘vile homophobe’ in open Facebook letter

Strand Chambers’ Richard Hendron claims political party is “becoming even more small-minded"

Feb 9 2016 12:34pm

The bar launches first of its kind LGBT+ network

FreeBar aims to support sexuality and gender minority barristers through their career, and get heterosexual lawyers on board

Feb 8 2016 10:16am