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Actors’ fury as mystery London QC pays £10,500 to appear as Broadway extra

“How would he feel if I offered him money to turn up as his clerk in a key trial?”

Jan 26 2016 9:52am
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Just 23% of new QCs are women — but Boris’ wife is one of them

Ethnic minorities also under-represented as — surprise, surprise — white men dominate silk appointments

Jan 11 2016 12:33pm
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Tooks QC Distances Himself From Colleagues’ ‘Ground Breaking’ How-To-Get-A-Pupillage Money Making Venture – But Mansfield Still Scheduled To Speak

On Friday we revealed that the directors of the company behind an event charging wannabe…

Feb 25 2013 4:11pm
Meet The ‘UK’s Top Barrister’…

The website TopCriminalQC.co.uk seems like a spoof. But Michael Wolkind QC’s chambers, 2 Bedford Row,…

Dec 13 2012 11:22am
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Meet The ‘UK’s Top Barrister’…

The website TopCriminalQC.co.uk seems like a spoof. But Michael Wolkind QC’s chambers, 2 Bedford Row,…

Dec 13 2012 11:22am
‘I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here’ Issues Challenge Based On The Life Of SJ Berwin’s Tim Taylor QC

Viewers of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here the other night heard Hugo…

Nov 27 2012 1:55pm

Battle Of The Top QCs: Kirsty Brimelow And John Cooper In Massive Twitter Bust-Up

It started with this proud tweet from John Cooper QC. Which was followed by this…

Nov 2 2012 9:50am
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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…

Oct 24 2012 8:32am
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VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Made In Chelsea, The Lawyers’ Version – Leaked Pilot Tape

Back in April, we reported that SJ Berwin’s Tim Taylor QC (pictured) had mentioned the…

Oct 3 2012 1:15pm
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…

Sep 27 2012 9:39am
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Edicts From The Ivory Tower: The Troubling Disconnect Between The SRA’s ‘Sophisticated’ Decision-Makers And Its ‘Over-Zealous’ Prosecutor Foot-Soldiers

A “wholly unjustified and unreasonable” decision to prosecute a small law firm for supposed failure…

Sep 11 2012 1:11pm
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Conflict Of Interest? Leveson Silk Robert Jay QC Is Ed Miliband’s Wife’s Head Of Chambers

As you may or may not know, Ed Miliband’s wife, Justine Thornton, is a barrister…

Jun 13 2012 8:00am
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Top Blackstone silk fined £18,000 for drink driving