Tag: Barristers

The hearings are “unexciting to the point of being soporifically leaden”

Is mitigation better advanced by counsel?

Miss out on Oxbridge and it's increasingly a first class degree or bust if you want to make it to the bar or the magic circle

Rookie criminal lawyer sent to slammer for over three years

She had quite a ride

The Citizenship Foundation's Bar National Mock Trial Competition helped launch Sophia Hurst's career

Man beats machine

Mr Madiba guarantees "quick results"

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

Session to take place between 6-7pm on Tuesday 19 April

Criminal barrister Desmond Rosario was jailed for four years last summer

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

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

#CCMSfail

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

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

And they drew some delightful pictures to demonstrate this

She now wants to become a barrister

All fun and games until someone loses an eye

From human rights to big money barristering

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