Tag: Barristers

A prospective barrister explains how he felt when his mistake was highlighted first on Twitter and then on Legal Cheek.

As Chris Grayling sailed through last night's Question Time without being asked a single question about legal aid, Twitter found itself captivated by the justice secretary's face.

Today's ruling by the Court of Appeal at least offered a crumb of comfort to criminal lawyers. Although not everyone is buying it.

Not only did yesterday's London Legal Walk raise over £500,000 for legal advice charities, but it also produced a host of delightful visual moments.

Law graduate was originally cleared of wrongdoing for using ‘barrister’ title, but Legal Cheek‘s identification of huge Bar Council error in investigation leads to intervention by police.

Is law destined to go the way of the discount carpet industry? Viz thinks so.

The judgment on the case that threatens to derail the government's legal aid cuts has been "reserved", with the judges hoping to rule within a "short space of time". Here is what has happened so far.

Social media-loving barristers are increasingly turning to Twitter to share the tedium of graduate recruitment.

"My dad, a lawyer, gave this to me," writes Imgur user 'Swedishish'. "He had it for years but told me he never had the courage to wear it in court."

A Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) graduate has penned a blog about declining a top intellectual property set's pupillage offer in order to see the world.

Following the recent further spate of Mitchell-related decisions, it has been determined after careful study of the ratio in each ruling that judges are simply making this stuff up as they go along.

Positioning itself as cool, unfussy and cheap would have made the Kaplan Law School Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) less vulnerable to competition from bigger rivals.

Because it's important that other road users know you're a lawyer.

Kaplan Law School is to discontinue its Bar Professional Course (BPTC) from September 2014.

Yet more drastic action forced on criminal sets by the legal aid cuts.

First you get hit by the law schools selling their barrister dream, then the Tarot Card readers get you...

The advice by 11KBW barrister Sean Jones QC — delivered via the #MarriedtotheBar Twitter hashtag — is essential reading for the film star ahead of his wedding to Doughty Street's Amal Alamuddin.

Practising barrister faces bomb hoax charges under Section 51(2) of the Criminal Law Act 1977 for Olympics terrorist nuclear attack warning.

Did legal blog YourBarristerBoyfriend bring human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin and film star together?

An oldie but a goodie to exacerbate ease the pain of returning to work from the Easter bank holiday — or, in the case of revision-swamped law students, not having a bank holiday at all.

Hot arrogant scum: The British public's view of solicitors, barristers and law students is rather confused.