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This is how broke criminal barristers are
A divorce law barrister has posted a series of tweets laying bare just how broke...
Morning round-up: Tuesday 15 October
Attorney General: Britain’s “economic, physical and ethical well-being” depends on it playing an “active part”...
End of the day round-up
Baroness Hale to speak at (free) social mobility in legal aid event on Wednesday 30...
A guide to determining which type of fat cat lawyer the Daily Mail thinks you are
Blackfriars Chambers criminal barrister John Mack has created this useful cut-out-and-keep guide (click on image...
Three lawyers feature in The Independent’s ‘Pink List’ 2013
The legal profession is healthily represented in this year’s ‘Pink List’, with three of its...
Morning round-up: Monday 14 October
GCHQ accused of monitoring privileged emails between lawyers and clients [The Guardian] We need a...
Legal Cheek high five: the week’s most read stories
1. Top judge tells solicitor that his romantic emails to glamour model ‘would not necessarily...
End of the day round-up
Ban on Oxbridge hopefuls applying to both Oxford and Cambridge may breach EU competition law...
‘Although the choices you make in your twenties matter, they are rarely life threatening’
Barrister-turned-cartoonist Alex Williams feared expulsion when he cheated on a piece of work that his...
Why trying to persuade a judge that the authority of the law doesn’t apply to you isn’t such a good court tactic
Since enjoying a flurry of publicity after this memorable attempt to arrest a judge (see...