Tag: Judges

Judge sacked for watching porn in his ‘private chambers’ reprimanded by SRA

Solicitor turned district judge was removed from judicial office in March 2015

May 25 2016 10:17am

Study slams BSB and chambers for failing to reveal diversity data

Damning study comes as top black judge launches campaign to address racism on the bench

May 23 2016 2:38pm

History to be made as gay judge looks set to swipe Lord Denning’s old job title

Sir Terence Etherton would be the first openly gay Master of the Rolls

May 20 2016 11:31am

Today’s controversial Supreme Court decision is tomorrow’s media law module

As lawyers scramble to offer insight into top court’s celebrity injunction decision, students brace themselves for new media law lecture content

May 19 2016 3:19pm

Judicial chill out lounges are the future says law reform group

Judges' private chambers could make way for "judicial hubs"

May 19 2016 10:01am

Mr Justice Peter Smith is BARRED from hearing Addleshaw Goddard cases

The battle continues as list of firms and lawyers over whom he can no longer adjudicate grows and grows

May 18 2016 1:54pm

Mr Justice Peter Smith v Blackstone — ‘shocking and indefensible’ letter annotated

Legal Cheek reads between the lines to try and discern what the combative Judge was really trying to say in trenchant missive

May 18 2016 9:49am

‘I will no longer support your Chambers’: Top judge’s incredible letter to elite set Blackstone emerges in bias row

The full letter by Mr Justice Peter Smith revealed, as he is barred from hearing Blackstone barristers' cases

May 17 2016 8:07am

For heaven’s sake! Man applies for restraining order against God

Official court documents noted that the Almighty failed to attend the hearing

May 6 2016 2:31pm

Judges, you need to catch up with parliament in your treatment of transgender people

Stop reminding litigants what used to be between their legs

May 6 2016 11:12am

One Direction? Judge halts trial because he has no idea who boyband is

“I am more of a Bach man myself”

Apr 26 2016 11:57am

Emotional triumph for Northern Irish state school in Bar National Mock Trial at the Old Bailey

Citizenship Foundation competition now in its 25th year, and is still fierce in its combat against the bar’s social mobility problem

Apr 25 2016 11:47pm

‘Divisive’ 3% pay boost for senior judges rejected by government watchdog

But how do our top judges' pay packets measure up against those of City lawyers?

Apr 25 2016 1:00pm

‘Cite you again’ – Law students’ musical eulogy to US Supreme Court judge Antonin Scalia

US website’s annual comp features ‘pitch perfect’ video praising outspoken judge

Apr 25 2016 12:06pm

The rise of WhatsApp, Snapchat and Facebook poses ‘very serious challenge’ for courts says Lord Chief Justice

Social media creates a “new and significant issue” for lawyers in rape and sex offences trials

Apr 20 2016 1:42pm

Lawyers vs Grayling: Supreme Court case concluded halfway through hearing in shocking legal first

Was the government’s policy so bad the court didn’t even wait until the end of the hearing to strike it down?

Apr 19 2016 11:35am

Official Solicitor to the Senior Courts appears as litigant-in-person in private dispute

Exclusive: Alastair Pitblado and his fiancée in High Court today -- acting for themselves in £150k planning row

Apr 11 2016 9:07am