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Podcast: Why Wannabe Barristers Should Do Their Time As Paralegals Before...

The path from the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) to paralegal purgatory is a well trodden one. Sadly, most of those purgatory-dwellers never make it to pupillage heaven. But what if you were...

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End Of The Day Round-Up

David Wolfe QC has defended QASA, but Simon Myerson QC doesn't rate what he had to say [Pupillage And How To Get It] Podcast with Gary Slapper and Frances Gibb: Do you really want your lawyer to...

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Should A Third Class LLB From Kent Uni Not Count As A Degree?

A Kent University LLB graduate has been denied access to the Canadian Bar – which normally recognises UK law degrees – because he got a third. The Canadian authorities have told Juron Grant-Kinnear...

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10 Reasons To Be Kind To Lawyers

It's Tuesday 9 April, which is of course Be Kind To Lawyers Day. At a time of change for the legal profession, this 24 hour window of goodwill towards solicitors and barristers has never been more...

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Top lawyers’ faces on other top lawyers

We tried to come up with a good reason for doing this, but there isn't one, really — other than to participate in the trend for face swaps sweeping the internet. For the last few weeks, the Inns of...

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Lawyers prove they can pull off a demo – as Britain discusses...

They got all dressed up, posed for clever pictures and were joined in such numbers that they halted traffic outside the MoJ – filling Twitter with their tweets and photos. Surely, then, this was the...

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10 of the best Lord Justice Ward lines

Last month, retiring Court of Appeal judge Sir Alan Ward (pictured) used his penultimate judgment to deliver a wistful nautical-themed allegory about departing the Royal Courts of Justice. It wasn't...

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Run Grayling Run

As a gesture of goodwill, we've included* Chris Grayling in our team for the London Legal Walk... Whatever pace you plan to cover the six miles at, be it a justice secretary sprint or a journalist...

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Five terrible comedy law student videos

As is traditional at this time of year on the other side of the pond, law students have been plastering their "law revue" comedy vids all over YouTube. Some are good, others less so. Below, beginning...

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Podcast: Dispatches from the exam frontline

Exam season is upon us: students up and down the country are frantically highlighting, cultivating coffee addictions, weeping and – if urban legend is to be believed – tearing key pages out of library...

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Court Of Appeal Judge’s Determination To Get His Best Lines In Before Retirement

Fresh from coming up with perhaps the most tortuous equine metaphor ever, soon-to-retire judge Sir Alan Ward has used his penultimate judgment to deliver a wistful nautical-themed allegory about...

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You Have To Go All The Way With The GDL – But An LLB Gives You Options

When I was 16, I received my GCSE results and discovered that I had got a B in maths. I was absolutely delighted, given that I was expecting something more like an F. But it still represented a...

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End of the day round-up

Girls Aloud's Sarah Harding sentenced to six-month driving ban [Daily Mail] Met police planning dawn raids tomorrow ahead of Thatcher funeral [Mirror] Brian Inkster writes of his "true Twitter friend"...

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Sir Edward Garnier MP, ex-Solicitor General, tries to amend out key sections of the Defamation Bill... [Daily Mail] ...and David Allen Green asks: should companies be allowed to sue for libel? [Jack of...

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Top lawyers’ faces on other top lawyers

We tried to come up with a good reason for doing this, but there isn't one, really — other than to participate in the trend for face swaps sweeping the internet. For the last few weeks, the Inns of...

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End of the day round-up

Britain's 'most lenient judge' has three sentences extended by Court of Appeal in a year [Mail Online] HowardKennedyFsi lawyers strike wild poses (pictured) as start-up venture HoneyHive launches...

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End of the day round-up

US Supreme Court rules anti-gay marriage law unconstitutional [Huffington Post] Twitter users might have broken the law during the Jeremy Forrest case [The Guardian] Inns of Court closures, Google...

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End of the day round-up

Baroness Hale becomes deputy president of the Supreme Court — British history's most senior female judge [The Guardian] Berlusconi guilty of paying for sex with underaged prostitute, gets seven year...

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Lawyers prove they can pull off a demo – as Britain discusses...

They got all dressed up, posed for clever pictures and were joined in such numbers that they halted traffic outside the MoJ – filling Twitter with their tweets and photos. Surely, then, this was the...

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10 of the best Lord Justice Ward lines

Last month, retiring Court of Appeal judge Sir Alan Ward (pictured) used his penultimate judgment to deliver a wistful nautical-themed allegory about departing the Royal Courts of Justice. It wasn't...

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