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Extension of police stop and search powers — radical or rhetoric?

It will further damage relations between communities and the police, argues Anonymous Rookie

Sep 26 2019 12:38pm
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What role does China play in the world’s fight against cyber crime?

A shelter mentality to cyber security

Aug 23 2017 10:26am
Future lawyer daughter of top QC in acid attack shame

Emily Bowen’s reported place to study law at Aberdeen Uni put on hold as she’s sent to prison

Aug 14 2017 12:25pm
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Diagnosis high risk: Why the NHS is a cyber criminal’s dream

Hackers are taking a more sinister approach than most people would care to imagine

Aug 10 2017 10:28am
Former Kent Uni criminology student robs robing room after posing as pupil barrister to get past Old Bailey security

He has previous for stealing law books from King’s College London library

Aug 8 2017 11:08am
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Where should the law’s nib land in drawing the divide between chasing hackers and enforcing businesses’ duties?

It’s a balancing act

Aug 4 2017 10:08am

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Cyber crime: A bigger threat than terrorism?

Cyber attacks given same UK security threat ranking as earthquakes

Jul 19 2017 11:44am
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Is cyber bullying a cyber crime?

The suicide of Amanda Todd shined a light on the issue, now we must act, says Andrew Chan in his shortlisted entry to the BARBRI International Cyber Crime Blogging Prize

Jul 4 2017 2:17pm
Dentons junior associate charged with extortion for trying to squeeze £160,000 from his OWN partners

Michael Potere threatened to leak confidential info, according to court papers

Jun 30 2017 11:17am
Police conducting drugs investigation search Herbert Smith Freehills’ Belfast office

Number of items taken from low cost support hub for further examination

Jun 13 2017 9:09am
Exclusive: There are 16,000 barristers currently practising, just 110 have criminal convictions

A third of these were for drink driving

May 24 2017 2:05pm
Boxing Day burglary: Bradford law student ‘decimates’ legal career hopes as he’s handed a suspended sentence

But SRA says otherwise

Apr 19 2017 11:35am

‘There is no incentive for junior lawyers to qualify into criminal law’, says Junior Lawyers Division

And there will be even less incentive after MoJ pay reforms

Mar 13 2017 2:23pm
Man convicted of spray-painting creepy graffiti on the side of the RCJ is banned from the building

Stay away! the court orders

Feb 23 2017 3:11pm
#TheAccused: Social media goes mad for ‘unprecedented’ Channel 5 criminal law documentary

We spoke to the lawyer involved in the case about his client’s trial by Twitter

Feb 7 2017 12:17pm
Thief handed suspended sentence for stealing Luton Crown Court roof

Silly season is finally here

Aug 8 2016 11:55am
Aspiring lawyer charged with murder does NOT attend BPP despite LinkedIn claims

Law school says Carl Langdell “has never been a student at BPP University”

Jan 15 2016 9:14am
BPP GDL student to appear in court charged with murder

Carl Langdell, who launched his own law firm in August, suspected of killing teacher Katie Locke

Jan 4 2016 9:29am

Criminal barristers are paid £2.40 an hour but I still see why people want to do their job

Legal Cheek‘s Katie King meets a bunch of broke bar rookies — and is charmed

Dec 15 2015 12:18pm
Rookie criminal barrister charged with conspiracy to supply cocaine

Junior who was called in 2009 to spend Christmas behind bars

Dec 10 2015 9:24am
Police investigate after sex attack on paralegal’s miniature Shetland pony

Tiny horse was found badly injured, with two separate internal injuries

Oct 30 2015 11:47am