UK Human Rights Blog Archives

New Statesman Readers Slam ‘Insolent Bloody Human Rights Lawyers’ Following ‘Shyster’ Barrister’s Pro-Human Rights Blog

Yes, that’s New Statesman readers… 1 Crown Office Row barrister Adam Wagner, who also edits…

Mar 5 2013 1:36pm
Morning Round-Up: Friday 18 January

A lawyer’s amazingly detailed analysis of Bilbo’s contract in The Hobbit [Wired] Former Leeds University…

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

Law student pleads guilty to exotic bird’s beheading death at Vegas casino [Mail Online] “No…

Jan 11 2013 6:32pm
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

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: Friday 4 January

Court told that solicitor tried to get his wife to lie for him when he…

Jan 4 2013 9:21am
Morning Round-Up: Thursday 3 January

Allen and Overy warns of new year Christmas party hangover [Metro] Lawyer, 51, moves back…

Jan 3 2013 9:43am
Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 2 January

The real-life Legally Blonde: Law student who spent thousands on becoming a living Barbie doll…

Jan 2 2013 8:45am
End Of The Day Round-Up

Trainee retention figures hold up [Law Society Gazette] Solicitor faces up to 5 years in…

Dec 20 2012 6:34pm
DPP Slams Twitter Joke Trial QC For Making ‘Cheap Points’ And Failing To Grasp ‘Sophistication’ Of Social Media Issues

Having narrowly beaten Kirsty Brimelow in the last battle of the top QCs, Twitter Joke…

Dec 19 2012 1:50pm

End Of The Day Round-Up

DPP’s interim guidelines for social media prosecutions embargoed til midnight. But Twitter Joke Trial barrister…

Dec 18 2012 6:18pm
Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 18 December

Commission on a Bill of Rights BINGO [UK Human Rights Blog] Slaughter and May solicitor…

Dec 18 2012 9:29am
End Of The Day Round-Up

“The Bill of Rights Commission reports tomorrow. Please, please can we all try to be…

Dec 17 2012 6:58pm
Morning Round-Up: Friday 14 December

Law firms suffer worst quarter since 2010 [Financial Times (£)] Doubt over City law firm…

Dec 14 2012 9:32am
Morning Round-Up: Monday 10 December

Six fat cat lawyers get £½MILLION each a year legal aid [The Sun] A much-used…

Dec 10 2012 9:33am
Morning Round-Up: Thursday 6 December

Legal Cheek at the Google campus: in tweets via competing hashtags [#legalcheek #legalcheeklive] When Britain’s…

Dec 6 2012 9:41am

What Will Replace The Fading Dreams Of City Law Megabucks And Criminal Bar Glamour?

This is the central question that the panel will be discussing at Legal Cheek‘s Google…

Dec 5 2012 9:36am
End Of The Day Round-Up

“Today’s score on Twitter: @Pontifex 1 – 2 Royal Family. The Vatican easily out-newsed on…

Dec 3 2012 7:03pm
Leveson And The Internet: Would Regulation Be A Good Thing For Legal Bloggers?

There was a brilliant cartoon in The Sun over the weekend making light of the…

Dec 3 2012 11:43am

New Statesman Readers Slam ‘Insolent Bloody Human Rights Lawyers’ Following ‘Shyster’ Barrister’s Pro-Human Rights Blog