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The most warped employment tribunal arguments used by claimants to (generally unsuccessfully) hang onto their jobs

A recent tribunal which saw a teacher compare Jews to Star Trek’s Vulcans — and...

11 July 2013 14:05

Client-focused lawyer abandons submerged Ferrari to get to hearing on time

Earlier this week photos of a Ferrari submerged in a flooded Toronto underpass went viral...

11 July 2013 08:45

‘We don’t even want to know your grades’: Is this the future of hiring pupil barristers?

Exclusive: Outer Temple Chambers has launched a new approach to graduate recruitment, which it is...

10 July 2013 09:09

Top lawyers’ faces on other top lawyers

We tried to come up with a good reason for doing this, but there isn’t...

9 July 2013 13:47

Barbara Hewson’s defence of notorious age of consent article on Channel 4 news last night unlikely to win her pals

Human rights barrister Barbara Hewson’s decision to write an article for Spiked magazine arguing, amongst...

9 July 2013 09:48

Charmaines and Kylies in law: a full statistical breakdown

On Friday we reported that reality TV star Katie Hopkins had used the legal profession...

8 July 2013 12:28

Spotted in the Temple: the filming of Silk series 3 — and Rupert Penry-Jones isn’t happy

The good news for actor Rupert Penry-Jones, who plays barrister Clive Reader in hit BBC...

8 July 2013 08:59

‘Would I really be happy being told what to do by a 25 year-old?’

After quitting his job as an art history lecturer to retrain as a lawyer ten...

5 July 2013 12:25

Are there really no lawyers called Charmaine or Kylie?

Ex-Apprentice contestant Katie Hopkins reckons that the legal profession is an area of life that...

5 July 2013 10:22

Law Society ditches ‘legal executive of the year’ prize as new path emerges to rival training contract

For the first time since 2008 there will be no ‘legal executive of the year’...

4 July 2013 14:42