Tag: Judges

Legal Cheek talks… deferred training contracts and Supreme Court attacks

Katie King and Tom Connelly reflect on CMS Cameron McKenna's £8,000 gap year deal and the tabloids' campaign against top judges

Nov 28 2016 9:54am

Lawyers round on Birmingham City maths lecturer’s suggestion Supreme Court judges should be elected

He thinks it could improve diversity, lawyers think it’s a naff idea

Nov 24 2016 12:14pm

Judicial Office in embarrassing email gender gaffe

It also spelt Teesside wrong

Nov 24 2016 10:14am

Top journalist says Lady Hale is ‘not fit’ to be next head of the Supreme Court

Brexit comments “must surely rule her out” of presidency running

Nov 23 2016 11:38am

Could the European Court of Justice really rule on Brexit?

Legal Cheek speaks to some of the country’s top EU law experts to find out

Nov 23 2016 9:01am

The Telegraph and the Mail misguidely go after Lord Neuberger

Have they not read his speeches?

Nov 21 2016 8:56am

Girl power: 5 female Court of Appeal judges captured in historic group portrait

But the number women in top judicial stops remains

Nov 18 2016 9:40am

UK’s first ethnic minority judge dies aged 86

He wore a turban instead of a horsehair wig

Nov 14 2016 10:31am

Is it ‘judgment’ or ‘judgement’?

Row breaks out as two former Lord Chancellors keep the ‘e’

Nov 11 2016 12:11pm

Bar Council backs Truss’s calls for ‘wider pool of talent’ for judicial selection

Even though this means more non-barristers becoming judges

Nov 10 2016 4:20pm

Supreme Court success for families involved in bedroom tax battle

Seven-judge bench upholds the claims of Jacqueline Carmichael and Paul and Susan Rutherford

Nov 9 2016 11:37am

High Court judges take legal action against Liz Truss over pension discrimination

Lord Chancellor’s week goes from bad to worse

Nov 9 2016 10:22am

Cash-strapped young barristers feeling more ‘lost’ and ‘depressed’ than ever

Uncertainty not helped by coming online justice revolution

Oct 17 2016 10:33am

Lord Sumption tells aspiring lawyers not to do a law degree

Do a history degree instead, says the history graduate

Oct 11 2016 8:55am

Research: England and Wales has one of the most male-dominated judiciaries in Europe

But our Supreme Court judges are among the best paid

Oct 6 2016 2:06pm