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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…

Jan 8 2013 3:20pm
Court Told Of Trainee’s Lap-Dance Club Nightmare

UPDATE: Friday 7 December 9am – Michael Peters found not guilty. The trial of a…

Dec 5 2012 10:57am
At The Criminal Bar You ‘Learn To Deal With Misogyny, Inequality And A Progressive Lack Of Quality’

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

Nov 16 2012 10:50am
Lawyer Jailed After Allegedly Drawing Penis Graffiti All Over The Walls Of His Former Law Firm

A disbarred personal injury lawyer, who has been charged with stealing clients’ money, has been…

Nov 8 2012 3:45pm
Mystery As English Solicitor Found Dead In Yemen

Roger Stokes, an English solicitor with the Yemeni law firm Sheikh Tariq Abdullah, has died…

Oct 12 2012 1:04pm
London Office Of King & Wood Mallesons Evacuated After Solicitor Sent a Cheque Covered In Dog Sh*t

A court has heard today that the London office of King & Wood Mallesons legacy…

Sep 20 2012 3:55pm

At Last, Some Good News For Jobless LPC Graduates: If You’re Convicted Of a Crime, You’ll Get a Lighter Sentence Than Other People

Last month, BPP Law School Legal Practice Course (LPC) graduate Victoria Lawson admitted stealing more…

Sep 20 2012 9:25am
‘In The Years I Have Known Him, He Has Always Been An Arrogant Lawyer’: Is This The Worst Reference Letter Ever?

On Friday, a struck-off lawyer who used to work for the US law firm of…

Sep 17 2012 9:40am
DLA Piper Trainee Solicitor Convicted Of Making Homophobic Remarks And Attacking Two Students

A second-year trainee at the Edinburgh office of DLA Piper has been found guilty of…

Sep 10 2012 9:00am
Career May Be Over For City Lawyer Who Groped Woman On National Express Coach As He’s Put On Sex Offenders Register

Hugh Wotherspoon, the solicitor found guilty last month of groping a woman on the Edinburgh-London…

Sep 3 2012 9:35am
What Is It With Law Graduates And The Urge To Steal From John Lewis?

An LPC graduate has admitted stealing from John Lewis via a fake refund scam, just…

Aug 28 2012 10:12am
City Lawyer Admits To ‘Trying It On’ With Woman On Edinburgh-London National Express Coach

There was a time, before the financial crisis struck, when City lawyers travelled by plane….

Aug 8 2012 1:04pm

Dog Bite Judge Beatrice Bolton: ‘Judges Are Human And They Can Only Take So Much’

Former Crown Court judge Beatrice Bolton achieved fame when she stormed out of court after…

Jul 31 2012 9:45am
Criminal Justice Guru Mervyn Barrett OBE Certainly Has a Lot Of Twitter Followers…

Mervyn Barrett OBE, who is running to be police and crime commissioner in Lincolnshire, has…

Jul 18 2012 12:30pm
Hero Barrister Thwarts Drug Dealer’s Courtroom Escape Bid

It was just another morning in court. Peter Hampton, a barrister at Broadway House Chambers,…

Jul 17 2012 2:17pm
‘He Daubed The Word “Bitch” On Wall In My Garden, Which Doesn’t Seem Like Something The DPP Would Do’

The words of a former girlfriend of Paul Bint, the conman famous for posing as…

Jun 8 2012 12:08pm
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,…

May 28 2012 12:42pm
Amid “Heartache, Depression and Personal Bankruptcy”, Are We Finally Seeing The End Of The Criminal Bar?

Last night at the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) dinner at Middle Temple Hall, CBA chair…

May 18 2012 8:35am

‘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…

May 17 2012 2:12pm
‘Fake’ Barrister Used Pub As Office And Joked His Wig Was ‘Itchy’, Says Prosecution

Last week, the trial of a law graduate charged with fraud for attempting to pass…

May 3 2012 2:05pm
‘Prostitute’ Lawyer Jailed For Running Belfast Brothel

Natacha Pociana, a qualified lawyer from Brazil, has been jailed for two months after admitting…

Apr 16 2012 9:08am

How Bad Does Your Wide-Ranging Crime Spree Have To Be To Prevent You From Becoming A Solicitor?