Tag: Barristers
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
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
A practising barrister who failed to declare his old criminal convictions has been disbarred
Omissions come back to haunt forgery barrister 16 years later
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
Not accepting students with 2:2s is ‘discriminatory’, argues top legal academic
Dr Steven Vaughan says degree class doesn’t tell the whole story
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
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)
The top 15 law fair freebies of 2015
The stash creating the biggest stir on campus
Mysterious barrister lifts lid on cocaine-fuelled life at the bar
Courts are apparently full of coke-head lawyers ogling jury members
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
Author of criminal law bible profiled in Mail Online as relationship guru
Jonathan Herring -- of ‘Criminal Law: Texts, Cases and Materials’ fame -- has diversified
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
Charlotte Proudman blames uni drinking societies for lack of women lawyers
High profile junior barrister says boozey bonding blocks female influence -- but figures suggest other causes may be to blame
Why lawyers are so angry about the quiet change to the Ministerial Code
Government's continued disdain for the law raises temperature of human rights debate
Junior barrister becomes global hero after hopping off bike to challenge China supporters on human rights
Facebook goes wild for impromptu speech delivered by Ely Place rookie en route to work
Furnival Chambers barrister revealed as ‘crazy man who shouts at kids’ in viral YouTube video
Embarrassment as crime specialist recorded on camera phone
‘Beautiful’ human rights animation goes viral (well, viral for a law video)
But will it save the Human Rights Act?
White Book envy: ULaw students aghast as they get online version while BPP kids receive print edition
Exclusive: Part-time BPTC students want practitioner texts they can lug around
New official ‘online hub’ tells young barristers to lose weight and stop 5-day benders
Young Barristers' Committee venture does, however, contain some useful snippets of advice
Landlord issues owners of ‘Fuckoffee’ café with legal threat over ‘offensive’ sign
South London coffee shop told to remove sign from exterior of building immediately
A BPTC graduate who brought 30 failed employment tribunal claims has been disbarred
After accumulating plenty of valuable work experience, his pupillage dream is over