Tag: Barristers

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

Much-maligned Bar Course Aptitude Test put on hold while regulator conducts review

The 2016 BCAT won't open til March at the earliest

Dec 2 2015 9:11am

REVEALED: The BPTC providers with the highest chance of pupillage

Northumbria is the worst; BPP London is the best -- but overall rate is poor

Dec 1 2015 1:55pm

Goldsmith Chambers barrister in tears after being found NOT GUILTY of perverting course of justice in cricket Twitter libel case

Andrew Fitch-Holland was accused of asking a witness to give false evidence

Dec 1 2015 11:41am

Science is harder than law, says Lord Neuberger

Head of Supreme Court reveals that he became a barrister after failing to cut it as a chemist

Nov 30 2015 1:51pm

‘UK’s top barrister’ forced to defend accusations of being ‘wholly incompetent’

Convicted murderer unhappy with Michael Wolkind QC, whose incredible website seems to have raised expectations

Nov 30 2015 12:05pm

Criminology student troll commits career suicide as he is exposed by top QC

But leading solicitor backs student's right to tell anti-Semitic gags

Nov 27 2015 4:12pm

First female Asian High Court judge sworn in

Bobbie Cheema-Grubb QC is a state-school educated northerner who wanted to be an astronaut

Nov 26 2015 9:10am

Bar Council confirms Pupillage Gateway date change U-turn with consultation launch

Opinions of law students sought over on/off timetabling switch

Nov 25 2015 9:33am

Katie Hopkins seems to be styling herself as a legal commentator

Reality TV star loves writing about the law in her mad Mail Online columns

Nov 24 2015 4:01pm

Amal Clooney thinks £450,000 engagement ring is too fancy for legal London

A-lister's rock costs more than many of her Doughty Street colleagues' homes

Nov 24 2015 9:26am

Top lawyers are ten times more likely to be privately educated than anyone else

The legal profession just can’t seem to shake its ‘old boys’ club’ reputation -- for good reason

Nov 23 2015 1:48pm

Charlotte Proudman and top QC have huge Twitter row about who knows the law better

Spat about the Female Genital Mutilations Act shakes social media

Nov 23 2015 9:34am

The Freshfields ‘£1,000 an hour’ partner: row breaks out over how much top firm charges

Barrister MP reckons magic circle giant demands up to a grand for 60 minutes of its time

Nov 20 2015 1:47pm