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Did ‘secret legal dispute’ prompt Bake Off’s exit from the BBC?

Producers reportedly engaged Lewis Silkin lawyer and threatened to sue TV broadcaster

Sep 14 2016 10:50am
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Stars of legal drama Silk can’t stop posting photos of the filming of Series 3 on Twitter

Recent sightings in the Inns of Court of the filming of the third series of…

Sep 9 2013 9:10am
Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 19 December

Posters of offensive messages on Twitter or Facebook less likely to face criminal charges, under…

Dec 19 2012 9:22am
End Of The Day Round-Up

Grayling sets out plan for culling judicial reviews [Law Society Gazette] Jon Robins follows the…

Dec 13 2012 7:07pm
End Of The Day Round-Up

Are magistrates and juries using Google to help them reach their verdicts? [The Telegraph] SNR…

Nov 28 2012 7:23pm
Morning Round-Up: Monday 26 November

“The newspapers will print nothing but Leveson Leveson Leveson this week” [Adam Wagner via Twitter]…

Nov 26 2012 9:07am

End Of The Day Round-Up

Full CPS charging statement for Andy Coulson, Rebecca Brooks and Clive Goodman [CPS Blog] Pyramid…

Nov 20 2012 6:45pm
Morning Round-Up: Monday 19 November

Judicial review ‘industry’ to be cut as right to challenge public bodies’ decisions curtailed, says…

Nov 19 2012 9:24am
Barrister Who Named Lord McAlpine On His Blog Removes Post And Braces Himself For Possible Legal Action

One of the bloggers who named Lord McAlpine in the wake of Newsnight’s report wrongly…

Nov 12 2012 2:19pm
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Morning Round-Up: Friday 9 November

Star of lawyer documentary The Briefs Franklin Sinclair cheats death in ‘freak waves’ horror on…

Nov 9 2012 9:12am
End Of The Day Round-Up

Leaving work on a Friday [#WhatShouldWeCallMe] What to do about trolls? [The Justice Gap] Twists…

Nov 2 2012 6:09pm
Morning Round-Up: Thursday 1 November

Solicitor aims to be UK Scrabble champion [BBC] Society of Black Lawyers’ Peter Herbert on…

Nov 1 2012 9:28am

Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 30 November

Legal aid cheats targeted by Ministry of Justice [BBC] Society of Black Lawyers calls on…

Oct 30 2012 9:07am
End Of The Day Round-Up

Berlusconi sentenced to four years in jail [Sky News] but quickly reduced to one [BBC]…

Oct 26 2012 6:23pm
‘The Chances You Don’t Take Are The Ones You Regret’

Ed note: This is the first in a series of posts where leading members of…

Oct 26 2012 10:20am
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End Of The Day Round-Up

How I was fooled by fake QC [Official statement of Mervyn Barrett OBE on his…

Oct 24 2012 5:32pm
End Of The Day Round-Up

Campaign team of PCC candidate Mervyn Barrett (who has rather a lot of Twitter followers)…

Oct 22 2012 6:14pm
End Of The Day Round-Up

Gay couple win Berkshire B&B refusal case [BBC] Nick Griffin tweets gay B&B couple’s home…

Oct 18 2012 5:45pm

Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 16 October

Jan Moir: Manchester Uni law graduate John Whaite is “unpredictable but with flashes of baking…

Oct 16 2012 7:03am
End Of the Day Round Up

Dechert’s Miriam Gonzalez v 39 Essex Street’s Justine Thornton [Mail Online] Manchester Metropolitan University law…

Oct 11 2012 5:35pm
End Of The Day Round-Up

The Who guitarist Pete Townshend “would have leapt out and killed” prosecuting QC [BBC] “I…

Oct 9 2012 5:23pm
End Of The Day Round-Up

DPP to tackle troll abuse with Twitter and Facebook chiefs [Evening Standard] Law student sent…

Oct 5 2012 5:39pm
Great British Bake Off Star John Whaite Rejected Eversheds To Pursue Baking Dream

This evening John Whaite will fight it out for a place in the semi-finals of…

Oct 2 2012 4:20pm

Chris Evans earns nine times as much as the Lord Chief Justice