People are poking fun at The Times after it described the Offences Against the Person Act as a ‘Victorian-era law’
‘They’ll have a fit when they discover where common law offences come from’
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#TheAccused: Sympathy runs dry for defendant at centre of new crime documentary
‘Sob stories worse than the X Factor’
Why it’s time to rename and reclaim ‘revenge porn’
We speak to the lawyers behind the third-wave feminist movement
Southampton law student imprisoned for manslaughter APPEALS conviction and sentence
He was given six years for killing a father-of-ten on Valentine’s Day
The sobering reality of being charged with a crime
Legal Cheek’s Katie King reviews new hard-hitting documentary The Accused: An Inside Job?
Criminal law exam 101: City lawyer guilty of battery after chasing girlfriend and spitting at her
Saga has similarities to classic R v Cotesworth case
Asylum seeker turned solicitor who only qualified in 2016 wins immigration lawyer of the year
Baroness Doreen Lawrence handed out gongs at yesterday’s legal aid awards
Voice-activated advertisements: Should we be worried or are they the next big marketing scheme?
Burger King PR genius or criminal actions? Ryan Gaskell speculates in his shortlisted entry to the BARBRI International Cyber Crime Blogging Prize Competition
It’s time to take the power away from cyber criminals
Most cyber crime victims don’t even know they’re cyber crime victims, says Marina Perry in her shortlisted entry to the BARBRI International Cyber Crime Blogging Prize Competition
IT illiteracy and government: how legislators never understood computers
Andras Kirkman-Kovacs, runner-up in the BARBRI International Cyber Crime Blogging Prize Competition, says the government has its work cut out
Hashtag hilarity as MoJ and CPS try, and fail, to launch serious social media campaigns
Legal Twitterati couldn’t help but take the p*ss
Trial of Southampton law student accused of Valentine’s Day manslaughter begins
Russell Group LLB-er alleged to have killed a father-of-ten with one punch
Backlash against tax QC who said the legal system allows men to ‘rape almost with impunity’
Criminal lawyers described the comment as ‘ill judged’, ‘unfair’ and ‘poor’
Is bribing public officials ever justified?
It’s a double-edged sword
Scanning a defendant’s brain can establish mens rea, claim neuroscientists
Will the results be used in the courtroom?
‘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
Why has the Bar Standards Board issued new guidance telling barristers to speak clearly and understand the law?
We spoke to the regulator about its new youth court competences handbook
Man convicted of spray-painting creepy graffiti on the side of the RCJ is banned from the building
Stay away! the court orders
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The life of a serious crime QC
From representing footballer John Terry to acting in the Hillsborough Inquests and the Child Sex Abuse Inquiry, there are few dull moments for Serjeants’ Inn’s Chris Daw QC
#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
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Lord Pannick QC suggests criminals should be sentenced by computer
King of Brexit legal challenge gives law tech the thumbs up
Legal Cheek talks… are trainees paid enough?
The haves and the have nots
MoJ’s criminal bar pay proposals under fire over fears baby barristers will lose out
Legal aid changes described as ‘a nasty whack for junior hacks’
Legal aid pay row: Doughty Street QC rounds on claims lawyers’ earnings have ‘rocketed’
Publicly funded barristers still broke, says publicly funded barrister
More criminal law cases to learn as Supreme Court makes landmark diminished responsibility ruling
Seven justices examined the law degree syllabus staple and chose not to allow the appeal
The invisible crime of female genital mutilation
“Abused unchecked” report reveals zero convictions in 16 years, but maybe that’s because the law is far too unclear
Jogee: Court of Appeal refuses to grant leave to appeal in swathe of joint enterprise cases
Mixed reaction from lawyers as 13 convictees’ applications dismissed
Lawyers react to ‘deeply concerning’ draft law that would keep alleged rapists in the dark about who accused them
One said this nonsense wasn’t doing his blood pressure any good
Lawyers split over Ched Evans rape acquittal debate
Charlotte Proudman even hung up phone in radio interview bust-up about the issue
Why soldiers deserve the legal right to refuse to fight
The lose-lose law of conscientious objection
Brexit: Man trying to prosecute ‘dishonest’ politicians for fraud crowdfunds a whole year’s salary for himself
Now he can focus full-time on bringing the criminal proceedings
Lawyer who ‘cracked under the strain’ of working for the CPS sentenced to six years in prison for trying to kill his wife
His increased workload led him to desperation
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A-level results day: Student spotted swigging booze from hip flask on live TV is off to study law at Liverpool Uni 
Solicitor who made anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist Facebook comments handed 12-month suspension 
Freshfields sends Manchester paralegals on mini-secondments to London, Dubai and Germany 
Linklaters keeps 47 of its 56 trainees upon qualification 
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