Blackstone Chambers Archives - Legal Cheek

Exclusive: Government’s favourite silk Sir James Eadie QC pulls out of controversial work experience auction

Offer to sell work experience to the highest bidder in the name of social mobility pulled after Legal Cheek asks questions — but other lawyers stick with online auction

Jun 11 2018 9:45am
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Supreme Court rules Theresa May CANNOT trigger Article 50 without parliamentary approval

Most important constitutional law case of a generation concludes with an unexpected split decision

Jan 24 2017 11:01am
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There is now a Lord Pannick QC clothing range

No, seriously…

Dec 9 2016 11:52am
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Brexit bullying: Man arrested for abusing lead claimant as legal challenge reaches day three

The Supreme Court show must go on

Dec 7 2016 1:22pm
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Brexit challenge: Lord Neuberger reveals parties were asked if they want any of the justices to stand down

Proceedings kick off in suitably dramatic fashion

Dec 5 2016 1:24pm
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Brexit legal challenge: Claimants victorious in most important constitutional law case for a generation

Leapfrog appeal hangs in the balance as judges put significant roadblock in Article 50’s way

Nov 3 2016 10:33am
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‘There is no going back’: Lord Pannick QC kicks off Brexit legal challenge

There were protesters dressed as lawyers outside the High Court

Oct 13 2016 12:58pm
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Top judge scolded for ‘shocking and disgraceful’ behaviour ‘mentally unfit’ to face disciplinary inquiry

Mr Justice Peter Smith has been “signed off sick”

Aug 2 2016 10:45am
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Legal dream team fights to make Brexit conditional on parliamentary backing

Big guns from Mishcon de Reya, Blackstone, Matrix and Monckton take aim at referendum decision

Jul 4 2016 7:49am
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Mr Justice Peter Smith is BARRED from hearing Addleshaw Goddard cases

The battle continues as list of firms and lawyers over whom he can no longer adjudicate grows and grows

May 18 2016 1:54pm
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Blackstone boosts pupillage award from £60k to £65k to keep pace with elite sets

Big-money commercial and public law set throws an extra £5,000 at its baby barristers

Feb 5 2016 9:11am
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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
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Two silks and a regional law firm have best High Court ‘win rates’, says survey

Boffins invoke artificial intelligence to determine which are the best litigation horses to back

Jul 30 2015 9:28am
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