Tag: Barristers

The Legal Cheek 2014 end of year quiz

It has been a vintage year for legal news and gossip -- but how much of it do you remember?

Dec 24 2014 8:58am

Christmas sing-a-long: ‘Working in a Mitchell Wonderland’

Now for a Jackson reforms-themed Christmas sing-a-long

Dec 22 2014 9:31am

Former bar student blasts law schools for ‘profiteering’ from academically weak applicants

Providers are coining it from foreigners with woeful English language skills, while regulators stand by, argues star student

Dec 18 2014 4:34pm

There is an English court where gavels are actually used

Small wooden hammer is not restricted to the US, it emerges

Dec 16 2014 11:16am

A solution to the Band Aid lyrics controversy: apply them to lawyers

As the 'Do they know it's Christmas' single is criticised for its "cultural ignorance", WaitroseLaw wonders if its message would be better-suited to stressed-out lawyers

Dec 16 2014 9:03am

All bets are off for the best legal profession Christmas tree of 2014

Now this is a law-themed Christmas tree

Dec 15 2014 9:27am

Shadow Solicitor-General dismisses suggestions he made a ‘Thornberry-style’ tweet to train driver

“Please stick to driving trains” comment comes just weeks after “white van man” Twitter storm

Dec 12 2014 10:54am

Barristers extol delights of down-market shopping for Christmas booze

Lawyer wine experts recommend two German pile ‘em high supermarkets for deals on fizz and other fine wines

Dec 11 2014 2:00pm

Newbie Shadow Solicitor-General takes Twitter fire for getting cold feet over legal aid cuts opposition

When on the backbenches, barrister Karl Turner wouldn’t shut up about the disastrous demise of the system; now he’s a bit quieter

Dec 11 2014 9:15am

Law students bag first win for university pro bono projects as murder conviction is overturned

High judicial praise for Cardiff’s Innocence Project in a case that also sees a “hot” barrister in the limelight

Dec 10 2014 2:09pm

Law chiefs battle spooks over client privilege

Bar associations and law societies across the UK line up to wave two fingers at security services and rozzers over Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act

Dec 10 2014 9:14am

Sheffield criminal barrister arrested after successful Crimewatch appeal

Barrister Desmond Rosario was arrested last night and is set to appear before magistrates today on a serious sexual assault charge.

Dec 9 2014 3:27pm

Bristol chambers axes pupillage place for next year — after wannabes had applied

Queen Square set's application required a week’s worth of toil -- and then the pupillage was cancelled

Dec 9 2014 11:17am

Ex-St Johns Buildings barrister goes on the run after police seek to question him over sex attack on teen

Crimewatch appeal launched after Sheffield criminal barrister Desmond Rosario fails to turn up to Magistrates' Court

Dec 8 2014 3:18pm

Tory councillor pleads not guilty to faking law degree and bar course qualification

Monika Juneja — who claimed to be a barrister despite never having been called to the bar — to fight charges against her

Dec 8 2014 10:21am

Litigant-in-person surgeon wows Court of Appeal with ‘high quality’ advocacy

Doctor's performance "would have done credit to an experienced member of the bar"

Dec 3 2014 9:06am

Review: ‘The Dog’ — a lawyer howls for freedom in Dubai

A former London barrister has written a witty and entertaining tale of ex-pat life in the psychologically confusing emirate

Nov 28 2014 10:36am

Joshua Rozenberg photobombs Andrew Mitchell at the RCJ following ‘Plebgate’ trial

Days after bagging yet another honorary doctorate, BBC Law in Action presenter is in the news again

Nov 27 2014 4:44pm