Tag: Court
Leaked CPS email details security breaches in robing room strewn with 999 tapes, confidential files and deodorant cans
Judging by an email leaked to us over the weekend, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)...
End of the day round-up
Girls Aloud’s Sarah Harding sentenced to six-month driving ban [Daily Mail] Met police planning dawn...
Lord Neuberger’s Judicial Assistant Lifts The Lid On Supreme Court Life
Amid the glow of the UK Supreme Court’s psychedelic carpets (the work of Sgt Pepper’s...
Court Of Appeal Dismisses Latest Case Of Litigant-In-Person Bar Graduate
The Court of Appeal has dismissed a libel case brought by a pupillage-less Bar graduate...
‘I’m Glad I Didn’t Know Some Things I Said In Court Were Prattish: Ignorance Gives You The Freedom To Experiment’
Ed note: This is the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I...
Court Reporter Suppresses Giggles As She Describes Martial Arts Shopping Trolley Fight That Led To Cowboy Hat Urination Incident
Irish court correspondent Ursula McCarthy has somehow managed to (just about) keep it together as...
How Bad Does Your Wide-Ranging Crime Spree Have To Be To Prevent You From Becoming A Solicitor?
Last week a Bradford solicitor was jailed for five years for paying off witnesses in...
‘A barrister’s rhetorical flourishes can be seductive, but eventually they become an irritating distraction’
Ed note: This is the latest post in the ‘If I knew then what I...
NOT GUILTY: Trainee Solicitor Cleared Of Racial Abuse At Lap Dancing Club
The trainee solicitor accused of racially abusing a bouncer at a Leeds lap dancing club...
‘Part The Crowds, Barrister Coming Through!’ – The Real Reasons Behind The Bar’s Love Of Wigs And Gowns
It is easy to scoff at barristers in our itchy wigs and fraying gowns. Horse...
Court Told Of Trainee’s Lap-Dance Club Nightmare
UPDATE: Friday 7 December 9am – Michael Peters found not guilty. The trial of a...
Day Of Reckoning Arrives For Court Interpreting Company Which Offered Jobs To Animals
Applied Language Solutions (ALS), the gaffe-prone interpreting service awarded the exclusive right to supply interpreters...
Barrister Who Was Rebuked For Impersonating Top QC Points Finger At BSB After He’s Fined For Working Illegally
Cardiff-based barrister David Leathley, who spent almost £50,000 unsuccessfully fighting claims he posed as Joel...
Lawyer Punched In The Face In Court – By His Client
Shocking footage from a crowded US courtroom, where a defendant in an assault case punched...
Lawyer Files a Cartoon To Get Round Five-Page Limit
After having the length of his brief limited to five pages by a judge, New...
No Wonder People Think Barristers Are Raking It In…
Spotted on a robing room noticeboard…
Hero Barrister Thwarts Drug Dealer’s Courtroom Escape Bid
It was just another morning in court. Peter Hampton, a barrister at Broadway House Chambers,...
Is It OK For Barristers To Call Their Client a ‘Slag’?
This morning, I tweeted a story about a barrister who’d described his client as a...
Law Grad Who Attempted To Pass Himself Off As a Barrister From His Pop Up Office In a Pub Is Jailed
Earlier this month, Legal Cheek brought you news of the strange case of Marious Pimm,...
‘I’m The MD Of Mangan Associates!’ Man Who Claimed He Was Solicitor Faces Jail
It seems that everyone is pretending – or at least allegedly pretending – to be...
Paperless Dream Is Over At Rolls Building As ‘Cutting Edge’ E-Filing System Is Axed
Much has been made of how modern the new “state-of-the-art” Rolls Building court complex is....