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How to become a clinical negligence QC

Two Serjeants’ Inn barristers, who made it to the top via strikingly different routes, share their advice and reflections

Jan 9 2020 2:36pm
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Top barristers reveal what students need to know as they make pupillage applications

Practitioners from no less than 13 leading London sets share their insights as the Pupillage Gateway re-opens

Jan 7 2020 2:25pm
Twitter users adding ‘QC’ to their name could be committing a crime, junior barrister warns

‘I’m a barrista (sic) — the QC stands for Quality Coffee’

Oct 21 2019 1:12pm
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Top Blackstone silk fined £18,000 for drink driving

Details of hefty court penalty appear in recent BSB decision

Sep 12 2019 11:06am
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Social media fumes as female QC caught having rush hour romp with male solicitor has criminal record wiped, but his caution stands

The SRA has confirmed it will not bring disciplinary action against him

May 23 2017 12:37pm
International Women’s Day: Lack of confidence deterring women from applying for silk

Barristers urge female seniors to be an inspiration to their juniors

Mar 8 2017 9:39am
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Barristers struggle to suppress anger at Liz Truss’s silk day speech

Exclusive: Lord Chancellor’s speech was badly judged and has not gone down well with new QCs

Feb 16 2017 12:00pm
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‘UK’s top barrister’ fined by Bar Standards Board over website boasts

But legendary topcriminalqc.co.uk site lives on

Feb 1 2017 11:43am
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‘Highest ever’ proportion of female QC appointments, yet research commissioned into why so few women apply

73% of new silks are men

Jan 12 2017 12:03pm
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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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