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‘There are moments in court when you wish the ground would swallow you up’
9-12 Bell Yard head of chambers Mukul Chawla QC wishes he’d been able to make...
Who in their right mind would wear a BPP baseball jacket?
BPP University has launched a branded clothing range, enabling proud law students at the institution...
Morning round-up: Friday 1 November
“We have issued warrants for their arrest. But they have evaded the short arm of...
Is it still worth being a legal aid lawyer?
Last night, at the launch of a report on social mobility in the legal profession...
Cease and desist letter sent to prevent ‘beardism’ that violates ‘Sexually Dynamic Lifestyle’ moustache trademark goes viral
A spoof cease and desist letter sent by the American Mustache Institute (AMI) to a...
Bar Standards Board chief: ‘There are too many people at the Bar’ and BPTC entry threshold ‘has to be higher’
The head of the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has suggested that the Bar is too...
9 Instagram photos that law firms wouldn’t use in their graduate recruitment brochures
Instagram — and the growing phenomenon of the law firm hashtag — is threatening to...
Have you seen missing BPTC graduate Gianni Sonvico?
23 year-old Kaplan Law School Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) graduate Gianni Sonvico has been...
Cash-strapped BPTC students turn to practitioners texts for fitness needs
A group of Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) students has shown how wannabe lawyers can...
Chris Grayling’s lone solicitor supporter is disqualified as a company director after failing to pay huge tax bill
A solicitor who broke ranks with his fellow professionals to back the government’s legal aid...