TV Archives - Legal Cheek

LawCatz: New TV chat show aims to demystify the legal world with the help of lawyers

Pilot to air on Sky next month, according to programme’s creator

Sep 6 2018 8:53am
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New courtroom comedy where judge pokes fun at litigants to hit TV screens this week

It’s basically Judge Rinder with fewer legal qualifications

Aug 6 2018 11:59am
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New drama set in London divorce firm hits TV screens tomorrow

Could The Split be the new Silk?

Apr 23 2018 11:51am
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Air justice! Judge Rinder takes chopper to court in adrenaline-fuelled advert

Mission Impossible-esque promo also features a leather clad clerk and a high-powered motorbike

Aug 17 2017 10:02am
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#TheAccused: Sympathy runs dry for defendant at centre of new crime documentary

‘Sob stories worse than the X Factor’

Aug 1 2017 10:47am
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The sobering reality of being charged with a crime

Legal Cheek’s Katie King reviews new hard-hitting documentary The Accused: An Inside Job?

Jul 26 2017 9:08am
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This solicitor has one of the best LinkedIn profiles we’ve ever seen

Sham Uddin even hosts his own comedy show

May 16 2017 1:32pm
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New court drama hoping to show viewers the ‘inner workings of the justice system’ will star real QCs and an ex-Old Bailey judge

The Trial: A Murder in the Family will air on Channel 4 later this month

May 9 2017 2:15pm
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#TheAccused: Social media goes mad for ‘unprecedented’ Channel 5 criminal law documentary

We spoke to the lawyer involved in the case about his client’s trial by Twitter

Feb 7 2017 12:17pm
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Women on film ‘should not’ have powerful jobs apart from in law, says feminist icon Caitlin Moran

And only if they are “sexy lawyers” at that

Nov 28 2016 11:35am
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How a high street solicitor from Lancaster became the resident legal expert on BBC’s ‘Rip off Britain’

Could Gary Rycroft be the next Judge Rinder?

Oct 4 2016 8:59am
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Did ‘secret legal dispute’ prompt Bake Off’s exit from the BBC?

Producers reportedly engaged Lewis Silkin lawyer and threatened to sue TV broadcaster

Sep 14 2016 10:50am
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New BBC drama mapping the lives of London divorce lawyers gets the green light

New six-part series called “The Split”

Aug 26 2016 8:59am
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Britain’s most influential law student and University Challenge winner Ted Loveday suffers quiz show defeat

He just couldn’t match the brainpower of the eggheads

Jul 22 2016 12:04pm
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Eurovision advice bureau: How the globe’s greatest song contest can help you cope with law revision stress

Complete with photos of air hostesses and Latvian pirates

May 13 2016 2:24pm
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‘Drunk’ solicitor inadvertently becomes TV star after using work email to abuse comedian

“You’re sh*t”

Mar 30 2016 11:08am
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The world is going crazy for the lawyers from Netflix’s ‘Making a Murderer’

Dean Strang and Jerry Buting are the legal profession’s new poster boys (contains spoilers)

Jan 4 2016 3:21pm
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18% of lawyers would quit their job to go on The Apprentice

Figure is down from 25% in 2011

Oct 15 2015 1:23pm
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What, no lawyers on this year’s The Apprentice!?

Lawyer-loathing Lord Sugar snubs legal sector as new contestants are revealed

Oct 6 2015 1:55pm
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Toddler who is obsessed by personal injury lawyer has most bizarre birthday party ever

Lawyer overcomes cartoon characters in battle for kid’s affection

Jul 30 2015 10:52am
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Telly quiz show barrister allegedly ‘smelled of cannabis’ as he advised client

Exclusive: The Chase’s general knowledge genius denies improper behaviour following pasting in Court of Appeal hearing

Jul 15 2015 10:58am
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Breaking Bad lawyer Saul Goodman has a website

In anticipation of the launch of Breaking Bad spin-off ‘Better call Saul’ later this year,…

Jan 14 2014 9:15am
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Stars of legal drama Silk can’t stop posting photos of the filming of Series 3 on Twitter

Recent sightings in the Inns of Court of the filming of the third series of…

Sep 9 2013 9:10am
Spotted in the Temple: the filming of Silk series 3 — and Rupert Penry-Jones isn’t happy

The good news for actor Rupert Penry-Jones, who plays barrister Clive Reader in hit BBC…

Jul 8 2013 8:59am

Barrister gets question about the Bar wrong on ITV quiz show The Chase

Shaun Wallace of Great James Street Chambers has surprised viewers of ITV quiz show The…

Jun 24 2013 11:00am
Hopes of an all-solicitor Masterchef final are dashed

There was a moment in Friday’s night’s Masterchef quarter final when it looked like Morgan…

Apr 22 2013 10:30am
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Court Reporter Suppresses Giggles As She Describes Martial Arts Shopping Trolley Fight That Led To Cowboy Hat Urination Incident

Irish court correspondent Ursula McCarthy has somehow managed to (just about) keep it together as…

Jan 16 2013 3:35pm
‘Cocky’ Warwick Uni Law Student Fails In Bid To Become Countdown Supreme Champion – Then Jousts With Host

Yesterday Warwick Uni LLM student Mark Deeks narrowly lost his battle with a Cambridge maths…

Jan 10 2013 10:26am
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‘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
The London Legal World Is a Small One (Just Ask I’m a Celebrity’s Nads And Hugo)

Watching I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here the other night, I was unexpectedly…

Nov 14 2012 3:15pm

US Supreme Court Justice Tells Sesame Street’s Abby That ‘Being a Princess Is Not a Career’

“Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career,” explains…

Nov 13 2012 10:01am
How Never Having Done a Pupillage Needn’t Stop You Appearing On The Telly As a ‘Barrister’

Over the weekend, David Neita, a self-styled ‘People’s Lawyer and People’s Poet’, was interviewed on BBC…

Oct 31 2012 1:12pm
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Why Did The Criminal Bar Association Choose Judge John Deed To Deliver Its Annual Lecture?

Surreal scenes yesterday evening at the Criminal Bar Association’s (CBA) annual ‘Kalisher lecture’, which was…

Oct 17 2012 8:46am
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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
Great British Bake Off Star John Whaite Rejected Eversheds To Pursue Baking Dream

This evening John Whaite will fight it out for a place in the semi-finals of…

Oct 2 2012 4:20pm
Reality TV Star Gabilicious Swaps Made In Chelsea For London Law Firm

To date, one of the great tragedies of E4 reality show Made In Chelsea is…

Sep 4 2012 10:52am
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Jags And Unpaid Interns: The Two Faces Of Fly-On-The-Wall Documentary Law Firm Tuckers

‘The Briefs’, the two-part ITV criminal law firm documentary which concluded last night, sparked rage…

Aug 10 2012 10:29am
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Farewell Silk, Now Time To Come Up With a New Mythology For The Bar

The defining images in the second series of BBC legal drama Silk – which drew…

Jun 21 2012 1:01pm
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‘Inaccuracies About the Legal Profession Make Me Cross’: BBC Drama Silk Returns To Torment Lawyers

Silk returned for its second series last night, enraging the country’s more pedantic legal professionals…

May 16 2012 10:02am
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SJ Berwin’s Tim Taylor QC Makes Made in Chelsea Debut

There has been much excitement in the legal world about the fact that Made in…

May 8 2012 1:10pm
Made in Chelsea: Millie’s Boyfriend Reveals Barrister Dream As Monday Excitement Builds For Times Law Prof Gary Slapper

I’ve written previously of my love for E4’s Made in Chelsea. But it seems that…

Apr 30 2012 3:10pm
Russell Brand Becomes Engrossed By Legal Profession In Wake Of Katy Perry Split

Newly single Russell Brand has turned to Bloomberg Law, the legal TV channel, to take…

Apr 3 2012 8:12am
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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…

Apr 2 2012 12:24pm
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Lord Neuberger Slams Judges For Appearing on MasterChef

Never upstage the boss. And that rule applies double when your boss is Master of…

Mar 19 2012 11:23am
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Law Firms’ Attitude to Women Solicitors Is Like BBC’s To Its Female Presenters

For reasons I have never fully understood, I’m often given the ‘women in law’ articles…

Mar 8 2012 1:39pm
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