Tag: Barristers

Number of bad-boy barristers drops as disbarments tumbled last year

Regulator’s annual figures show complaints rise, but 31% fewer lawyers were given red cards

Aug 6 2015 4:06pm

Fact check: Oxbridge-obsessed chambers claims to be a ‘varied and diverse place’

20 Essex Street Chambers gets carried away on Twitter

Aug 6 2015 1:53pm

Meet the ‘Humans of Law’

Inspired by global social media sensation “Humans of New York”, two Legal Cheek work experience students have set up a legal profession version

Aug 5 2015 11:37am

Your Presentation Feedback Translator

With the courts closed and the legal profession in holiday mode, what better opportunity to do lots of pointless presentations?

Aug 4 2015 1:48pm

Two silks and a regional law firm have best High Court ‘win rates’, says survey

Boffins invoke artificial intelligence to determine which are the best litigation horses to back

Jul 30 2015 9:28am

The mystery of the vertically-challenged barristers

Bar Council tweet highlights a new set of Hobbit-sized lawyers

Jul 29 2015 3:58pm

‘My Family’ actor with drugs record bids to be human rights barrister

Gabriel Thomson was busted for coke seven years ago, but that's not stopping him from going for philosophy first and then the GDL

Jul 29 2015 12:54pm

Full transcript of judge’s luggage rant at British Airways lawyers emerges

What appears to be court stenographer’s note appears online

Jul 29 2015 9:45am

Legal Cheek hit with take-down notice over barrister and sheep picture

Marketing managers -- donchya just love ‘em. Especially po-faced examples in the legal profession

Jul 28 2015 4:04pm

#LawyerSchmovies: 13 top movie titles improved by references to the law

The latest social media craze is all about law and films

Jul 28 2015 12:27pm

Top barrister and London mayor allegedly flout cycling laws together

Lawyer accepting a dangerous midnight “backie” last week also happens to be BoJo’s wife

Jul 28 2015 9:03am

Crime legal aid lawyers paying the price for years of fat cat fees, says top silk

Incendiary remarks could divide profession as barristers head to picket lines today in support of solicitors' battle against MoJ rate cuts

Jul 27 2015 1:02pm

Crime barrister slapped with £2,000 fine for dropping big ‘N-word’ bomb

Matthew Lawson’s profile no longer on Carmelite Chambers website after calling woman a "nigger bitch"

Jul 27 2015 11:07am

Comments of the week

The best below-the-line thoughts from the last five days

Jul 24 2015 4:01pm

Supervisor tells pupil she looks ‘quite f*ckable’ — report highlights sexism at bar

Two surveys this week illustrate just how much work bar leaders have to do to drive out the Fred Flintstone attitudes

Jul 24 2015 9:14am

Legal aid strike falling apart as big firms head back to work

Exclusive: Rumours suggest that core group has struck a deal on verge of Ministry of Justice meeting

Jul 23 2015 1:26pm

From wasps to car-hire — junior lawyers need to diversify

There are many ways to exhibit commercial awareness...

Jul 22 2015 4:17pm

Gove calls make-or-break meeting in bid to resolve crime legal aid dispute

Four lawyer lobbying groups will meet Justice Secretary -- but Law Society and Bar Council are in the cold

Jul 22 2015 12:27pm

War of words at Milton Keynes County Court

Kiss good-bye to lawyer civility

Jul 21 2015 3:34pm

Award-winning junior barrister Connor Johnston says lawyers can still make a go of legal aid

Housing law specialist and winner of Legal Aid Practitioners Group gong remains positive in face of cuts

Jul 21 2015 9:40am

Solicitors are rubbish at the ‘art’ of Crown Court advocacy, says top Tory QC

Silk who defended the Krays also aggrieved by modern law firm tendency to "tie papers with rubber bands instead of tape"

Jul 20 2015 3:43pm