Tag: Barristers

Illustrator turns iTunes’ terms & conditions into comic book art

Legalease has never looked so good

Nov 6 2015 4:03pm

Revealed: What barristers keep in their mysterious wheelie suitcases

If you thought it was all practitioners’ texts and robes, think again…

Nov 6 2015 1:18pm

Award law scholarships on need rather than merit, urges Lady Justice Hallett

Otherwise legal profession will contain only children of the rich

Nov 6 2015 9:55am

Solicitors Regulation Authority publishes its allegations against Lord Harley of Counsel

Colourful solicitor-advocate's titles questioned by the regulator

Nov 5 2015 12:44pm

Fish & chip shop owner who refused to accept parking fine changes contract law

Barry Beavis' honourable Supreme Court defeat today will impact university syllabuses

Nov 4 2015 3:57pm

The great Mansfield Chambers exodus: 50% of barristers quit the set

Exclusive: Half of the members of Michael Mansfield QC's set have just left

Nov 4 2015 12:06pm

City lawyers can’t agree if they should fill the legal aid gap

National Pro Bono week kicks off with a disagreement about Justice Secretary Michael Gove's grand plan

Nov 3 2015 10:14am

Inner Temple votes to cut library space by nearly 60% so it can build a lecture theatre

Move comes as rumours of not-for-profit BPTC continue to swirl

Nov 2 2015 4:07pm

Why is nobody talking about this Friday’s Inns of Court scholarship deadline?

£5 million in cash and rent-free flats in central London up for grabs, but publicity is minimal

Nov 2 2015 12:06pm

A practising barrister who failed to declare his old criminal convictions has been disbarred

Omissions come back to haunt forgery barrister 16 years later

Oct 30 2015 2:04pm

The unintentionally positive effects of the Witchcraft Act are still being felt today

Laws against witchcraft were pivotal in the creation of modern concepts of evidence; they also gave women a voice in court as witnesses

Oct 30 2015 10:00am

Not accepting students with 2:2s is ‘discriminatory’, argues top legal academic

Dr Steven Vaughan says degree class doesn’t tell the whole story

Oct 30 2015 9:09am

Top Blackstone Chambers QC rejects Oxford prof’s claim that technology will destroy legal profession

Lawyers survived email and Twitter -- and they'll survive everything else, predicts David Pannick QC

Oct 29 2015 1:59pm

Blogging ex-judge gives exclusive insight into one of most influential cases of past 150 years

Former Court of Appeal man reveals what it was like to decide Re A (conjoined twins)

Oct 29 2015 12:24pm

The top 15 law fair freebies of 2015

The stash creating the biggest stir on campus

Oct 29 2015 9:51am

Mysterious barrister lifts lid on cocaine-fuelled life at the bar

Courts are apparently full of coke-head lawyers ogling jury members

Oct 28 2015 11:47am

Supreme Court hears joint enterprise case that could shake up criminal law syllabuses

Key legal principle could be overhauled -- and the whole process is being charted live via video and social media

Oct 28 2015 9:53am

Author of criminal law bible profiled in Mail Online as relationship guru

Jonathan Herring -- of ‘Criminal Law: Texts, Cases and Materials’ fame -- has diversified

Oct 27 2015 2:25pm

Most Lists 2016: There are lots of junior women solicitors, but everywhere else in legal profession is dominated by men

Being a partner, a QC or even a rookie barrister is largely a man's game

Oct 27 2015 9:10am