Tag: Barristers

Banning things is ‘curse of our age’

Brits seem to want to ban everything nowadays

Jan 19 2016 2:09pm

Junior lawyers open up about stress

Challenges of the job becoming less of a taboo

Jan 19 2016 9:50am

We spoke to a London human rights lawyer about China locking up human rights lawyers

He describes the arrests as “obviously unjustified”

Jan 18 2016 12:34pm

Charlotte Proudman leaves Twitter after relentless abuse from trolls

Young sexism row barrister deactivates account

Jan 18 2016 10:22am

Pupillage Gateway will be moved to January from 2017

After previous false start the Bar Council finally gives date change the go-ahead

Jan 18 2016 7:28am

‘Making a Murderer’: could we see an English version?

Don’t hold your breath, says top criminal barrister

Jan 15 2016 12:01pm

Durham student rape acquittal sparks talk of criminal law reform

Should we bring back anonymity for accused rapists?

Jan 14 2016 12:33pm

Nosy bosses CANNOT read your private WhatsApp conversations due to ECHR ruling

Reporters can't resist getting a human rights story wrong

Jan 13 2016 4:22pm

The solicitors who quit the City to work in sexy areas of law

Get a TC, get some money and then get out to do crime and media work

Jan 13 2016 9:42am

Top criminal chambers boosts pupillage award from £16k to £40k

London set bucks downward pay trend

Jan 12 2016 9:27am

David Bowie used to be a paralegal based near Lincoln’s Inn

British music legend sadly passed away yesterday after 18-month battle with cancer

Jan 11 2016 5:28pm

Labour’s top lawyer quits citing ‘increasingly negative path’ under Jeremy Corbyn

Shadow attorney general Catherine McKinnell has resigned -- Karl Turner replaces her

Jan 11 2016 1:02pm

Just 23% of new QCs are women — but Boris’ wife is one of them

Ethnic minorities also under-represented as -- surprise, surprise -- white men dominate silk appointments

Jan 11 2016 12:33pm

Social mobility charity’s ‘Model Law Commission’ gets students thinking about what being a lawyer actually means

Big Voice London aims to bring people who see the world differently into the profession

Jan 8 2016 12:14pm

Junior barrister appears in court over supplying drugs in heart of legal London

Strand Chambers’ Henry Hendron was arrested earlier this year after boyfriend died of drug overdose at his Temple flat

Jan 8 2016 10:22am

Robots aren’t such a big threat to lawyers, say top academics

Predictions of solicitors and barristers' imminent demise are premature

Jan 8 2016 9:13am

Junior barrister, 33, made a Crown Court judge

Anna Midgley is the youngest recorder in recent history

Jan 7 2016 1:26pm

Floods force closure of three Magistrates Courts

Nature disrupts justice

Jan 5 2016 10:05am

The 15 most popular Legal Cheek stories of 2015

A look back on the posts that hauled in the most hits

Dec 29 2015 10:07am