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A Publicly Funded Christmas Carol

A Festive Fable PART ONE The legal profession was dead, to begin with. Christopher Scrooge...

11 December 2013 12:23

The roaring eBay trade in law school notes

Following our recent story about the Kennedys solicitor who’s flogging her old GDL and LPC...

11 December 2013 09:42

Morning round-up: Wednesday 11 December

Three murderers were sentenced to life imprisonment on one day. The minimum terms set were...

11 December 2013 08:09

The end of the day round-up

The Bar’s worst chambers profile pics [Your Barrister Boyfriend] The first same-sex weddings in England...

10 December 2013 16:04

Lawyers aren’t supposed to fall for Nigerian inheritance scams…

A US lawyer is at the centre of a storm of legal blogosphere ridicule after...

10 December 2013 13:52

Frontman of company seeking to ‘revolutionise’ criminal law makes grammatically incorrect bestiality slur against bemused barrister

Last night on Twitter the public face of a heavily-hyped new legal market entrant launched...

10 December 2013 10:29

Morning round-up: Tuesday 10 December

Are we in England too paternalistic to our juries? [David Allen Green on Facebook] The...

10 December 2013 08:23

The end of the day round-up

Boat race protester Trenton Oldfield saved by non-Oxbridge lawyer [The Independent] 1,000 crime solicitors to...

9 December 2013 16:35

Kingston Crown Court unveils a lunch deal of such complexity that even lawyers can’t understand it

Can anyone decipher the meaning of Kingston Crown Court’s incredibly complicated lunch deal?

9 December 2013 13:07

Is this the most whirlwind pupillage application schedule ever?

Several pupillage hopefuls have alerted us to the incredibly fast pupillage application schedule being operated...

9 December 2013 09:37