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‘Introduce quotas for state school educated barristers and judges,’ suggests Guardian journalist

Ellie Mae O’Hagan tells Legal Cheek she hopes column will help ‘address the problem of elitism’

Aug 8 2017 1:23pm
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Social media giggles as national newspaper describes lawyer as ‘a full QC’

The next ‘top barrister’?

May 19 2017 1:09pm
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Analysed: The Poor Posture And ‘Smug Smile’ Of Supreme Court President Lord Neuberger

Yesterday, hidden away at the bottom of Joshua Rozenberg’s article in The Guardian about judges’…

Feb 14 2013 10:12am
End Of The Day Round-Up

Baroness Scotland QC told by school careers adviser that best she could hope for was…

Jan 23 2013 6:10pm
Morning Round-Up: Monday 21 January

Threat to the courts system as barristers google jurors then alter speeches to win sympathy…

Jan 21 2013 9:18am
End Of The Day Round-Up

Thom Yorke threatens to “sue the living shit” out of David Cameron if the prime…

Jan 17 2013 6:22pm

Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 16 January

When I get that feeling, I want sexual billing [Above the Law] Judges’ respect for…

Jan 16 2013 9:20am
End Of The Day Round-Up

BT to offer legal services to businesses after new ‘BT Law’ trade mark is registered…

Jan 15 2013 6:30pm
End Of The Day Round-Up

The new Titan prison idea could be a bit of a rightwing smokescreen, designed to…

Jan 14 2013 6:34pm
Morning Round-Up: Friday 11 January

Law’s Mystic Meg: no future for high street firms, but window of opportunity for mid-sized…

Jan 11 2013 9:35am
End Of The Day Round-Up

President of the Law Society: “If career progression was based on pure merit, some male…

Jan 10 2013 6:45pm
End Of The Day Round-Up

Female solicitor told not to have a relationship or babies by boss, tribunal hears [The…

Jan 9 2013 6:48pm

Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 9 January

Chris Grayling: Using same old probation services to cut reoffending is madness [The Telegraph] Foreign…

Jan 9 2013 9:28am
End Of The Day Round-Up

Lawyers heckle fellow lawyers who have offered to defend men in India gang rape case…

Jan 8 2013 6:29pm
Morning Round-Up: Monday 7 January

Linklaters associate who died during triathlon may have suffered the same condition as Bolton Wanderers’…

Jan 7 2013 9:11am
End Of The Day Round-Up

BPP joins government initiative to create non-uni route to lawyer career [Legal Week] What can…

Jan 2 2013 6:57pm
Morning Round-Up: Friday 21 December

Julian Assange: “democracy is the sum of our resistance” [Head of Legal] ‘Julian Assange’s speech,…

Dec 21 2012 9:17am
Morning Round-Up: Thursday 20 December

Looks like we’re not the only country with social media issues… Law blogger questioned by…

Dec 20 2012 9:24am

‘Introduce quotas for state school educated barristers and judges,’ suggests Guardian journalist