Tag: QCs
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
‘UK’s top barrister’ fined by Bar Standards Board over website boasts
But legendary topcriminalqc.co.uk site lives on
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?"
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
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...
Meet The ‘UK’s Top Barrister’…
The website TopCriminalQC.co.uk seems like a spoof. But Michael Wolkind QC’s chambers, 2 Bedford Row,...
Meet The ‘UK’s Top Barrister’…
The website TopCriminalQC.co.uk seems like a spoof. But Michael Wolkind QC’s chambers, 2 Bedford Row,...
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Lawyer Etiquette: Is It OK To Be Photographed Barefoot?
On Monday, I ran a story about the dad of Hugo from Made in Chelsea,...
QC Dad of Made in Chelsea Star Hugo Discusses Lawyers’ Version of Show
E4 reality show Made in Chelsea is back tonight with its third series. This news...
QC’s ‘Joke’ Lands Him In Trouble – But He’s Cleared Of Misconduct
As a coroner struggled to work her new iPad at an inquest for a man...
The Times Mistakenly Features Barrister In Story – And 2 Days Later Still Hasn’t Removed Her Name
On Monday, Lucy Reed, a barrister at St John’s Chambers in Bristol, was surprised to...
David ‘Scrap The QC System’ Wolfe QC Is STILL Fuming
Rule one of PR: you can’t shut the stable door after the horse has bolted....
City Lawyers Go After David Wolfe QC
RollOnFriday’s story about newly appointed silk David Wolfe QC (pictured) signing a letter in 2003...