Tag: Politics
‘If you can, stick at it’: Jeremy Corbyn tells students to reject commercial law and pursue legal aid dreams
Labour leader pledges to restore justice funding if elected
Justice minister in the clear following ‘unpaid’ £13.50 expenses error
"Absolutely furious" Caroline Dinenage MP hits back
Andy Burnham bids to battle Corbyn by being friend to legal aid lawyers
Leadership election manifesto of former health secretary calls for a review of recent cuts
Ex-Skadden trainee appointed parliamentary private secretary to Michael Gove
Hopefully Robert Jenrick MP will be able to remember the public law module from his GDL
‘You Wouldn’t Behave Like That In Court’: Barrister MP Told Off For Heckling Ed Miliband At PMQs
At yesterday’s Prime Minister’s Questions, criminal barrister-turned-MP Michael Ellis heckled Ed Miliband so loudly that...
39 Essex Street Barrister Justine Thornton Unveils Her Christmas Card
Pictured alongside hubby Ed, a politician, and her two young sons, the Thornton family’s main...
Top Ten Funniest #Leveson Tweets
Amid the Twitter storm of earnest pontification which greeted the publication of Lord Justice Leveson’s...
Barrister Who Accused Lord McAlpine Of Being a Paedophile Issues Grovelling Apology – As Peer’s Legal Team Confirms It’s Investigating Him
Earlier this month we revealed that one of the bloggers who wrongly named Lord McAlpine...
Lawyer’s Porn Star Past Returns To Haunt Him
A US lawyer has admitted that he starred in porn films in the 1970s then...
Barrister Who Named Lord McAlpine On His Blog Removes Post And Braces Himself For Possible Legal Action
One of the bloggers who named Lord McAlpine in the wake of Newsnight’s report wrongly...
Fake QC Who Offered Bogus Pupillages Was Campaign Manager Of PCC Candidate Mervyn Barrett, Claims Solicitor
This is one of those ‘Wow, just wow!’ stories. It has two strands, which come...
All 3 Previous Non-Lawyer Lord Chancellors Ended Up In Tower Of London, Lord Chief Justice Tells Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling, the new hard-line Lord Chancellor, isn’t the kind of guy who naturally elicits...
Michael Mansfield: Women ‘Seriously Underrepresented’ In Parliament (No. Of Female QCs In Mansfield’s Chambers: 0)
“The House of Commons is not representative of the electorate,” began a high-minded letter in...
Conservative MP Philip Davies Slams ‘Pompous’ ‘Out Of Touch’ Legal Profession In Anti-Lawyer Twitter Diatribe
It began last Thursday, when right-wing Tory MP Philip Davies labelled Judge Peter Bowers (of...
Weber Shandwick Head Of Public Affairs Alex Deane: ‘Why I Don’t Miss The Genteel Poverty Of The Criminal Bar’
Criminal barrister-turned-PR-guru Alex Deane loved the camaraderie and courtroom thrills of the Bar. But after...
Chris Grayling Appointment: Top Ten Horrified Reactions
News of the first non-lawyer appointment to the role of Lord Chancellor since the Archbishop...
British Law Firm* Is Obama’s Third Highest Campaign Funder
None of the ‘serious’ legal publications have reported the news that DLA Piper is the...
Don’t Fancy The BPTC? Well, You Could Try Nicknaming Yourself ‘Barrister’ Instead
My favourite character in the media storm that has embraced embattled Tory peer Baroness Warsi...
London Election Day: Full List of Lawyer Candidates, Including The Fisher Meredith Partner Standing For UKIP
Last week, I wrote a piece for The Guardian profiling three of the lawyers vying...
Linklaters Pays Alistair Darling £15,300 For Making a Speech
As you may have noted from the extract above – taken from the House of...
VIDEO: Jonathan Djanogly “Giggled and Grinned” Through Legal Aid Asbestos Victims Debate
Oh dear, Justice Minister Jonathan Djanogly has put his foot in it again… The extraordinary...