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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...

25 February 2013 16:11

North West Law Firm Records World’s First Solicitor Harlem Shake Video

Last week we detailed how several universities and law schools had recorded their own versions...

25 February 2013 10:54

Tooks Chambers Barristers Start Company That Charges Bar Hopefuls £186 Each For Pupillage Application Advice From Michael Mansfield QC

When criminal barristers talk of having to diversify in order to survive, it’s generally assumed...

22 February 2013 10:58

Bar Course Aptitude Test Will Cost More Than Double What Wannabe Barristers Had Been Told To Expect

Barrister hopefuls had been told that the new Bar Course Aptitude Test (BCAT) would cost...

20 February 2013 09:08

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’...

14 February 2013 10:12

Has There Ever Been A More Unlikely Legal Conference Attendee Than Busta Rhymes?

News came through overnight on Twitter that rapper Busta Rhymes closed yesterday’s American Association For...

13 February 2013 12:09

Goodbye Solicitor And Barrister, Hello ‘Legal Process Analyst’ – Review: ‘Tomorrow’s Lawyers’ By Richard Susskind

As you’d expect, the inquiries Professor Richard Susskind encourages legal hopefuls to make in the ‘Questions...

13 February 2013 10:22

‘You Wouldn’t Behave Like That In Court’: Barrister MP Told Off For Heckling Ed Miliband At PMQs

At yesterday’s Prime Minister’s Questions, criminal barrister-turned-MP Michael Ellis heckled Ed Miliband so loudly that...

31 January 2013 10:05

Lord Neuberger’s Judicial Assistant Lifts The Lid On Supreme Court Life

Amid the glow of the UK Supreme Court’s psychedelic carpets (the work of Sgt Pepper’s...

30 January 2013 13:17