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  • Memory lane
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    Memory lane

    2026-05-20T14:33:00Z

    EU court referrals, a solicitor in cabinet, PI trial juries and rights of audience: a stroll down Gazette memory lane. 

  • Harper Beckham
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    Harper’s brush with the law

    2026-05-20T08:00:00Z

    Harper Beckham has reportedly been refused initial trade mark approval in the US for her planned beauty brand, Hiku By Harper. 

  • Legal Walk 25_17
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    Sights and sounds of 10,000 walkers

    2026-05-20T00:01:00Z

    More than 1,000 teams and 10,000 walkers have already signed up for the 2026 London Legal Walk on 9 June. 

  • Zanderx
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    A legal scholar ahead of his time

    2026-05-19T14:06:00Z

    It is 50 years ago this month since campaigner Michael Zander published an article entitled ‘Should solicitors profit from their client accounts?’

  • District of Columbia Court of Appeals Building
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    Judicial top trumps

    2026-05-19T11:29:00Z

    The US Court of Appeal is hearing an appeal by the US government in Jenner v Department of Justice. 

  • Nick De Marco KC
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    Football soap opera means legal work never dries up

    2026-05-14T10:49:00Z

    The evolution of football from sporting contest to melodrama continues apace, to the extent that the actual 90 minutes of action increasingly seems like an unwelcome distraction from the off-field theatre. Take this week’s Championship play-off semi-final between Southampton and Middlesbrough. It culminated in a narrow win for the Saints, ...

  • Law Rocks drum
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    See you later, litigator

    2026-05-13T00:01:00Z

    Global phenomenon Law Rocks! is just one highlight of this year’s London International Disputes Week.

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    Textbook example of penny-pinching

    2026-05-12T00:01:00Z

    The latest squeeze on judicial expenses: the allowance for textbooks.

  • James Morton
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    Never make fun of a witness

    2026-05-11T15:00:00Z

    Cheap gibes are both unkind and unlikely to benefit you. 

  • Jolyon Maugham
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    Good law goes offshore

    2026-05-11T14:34:00Z

    Founder announces transfer of ownership to a Jersey 'purpose' trust. 

  • Leapart
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    Great Leap forward

    2026-05-11T14:27:00Z

    Law Society Art Group’s annual exhibition of members’ work kicks off ‘The Season’.

  • Memory lane
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    Memory lane

    2026-05-07T00:01:00Z

    PI reforms battle, Dibbs' steps to incorporate and a leap into the light for conveyancing: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.

  • Specialconstabulary
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    Devil’s advocates who took on the strikers

    2026-05-06T14:04:00Z

    A century ago last week, Chancery Lane witnessed ‘a number of young men’ emerging from the headquarters of the ‘Devil’s Own’ Territorial regiment, bearing truncheons.

  • Statue of Justice, Old Bailey
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    Only 1 Old Bailey

    2026-05-05T14:16:00Z

    While MPs clash over the plans to restrict jury trials during the public bill committee stage, they agree on one thing: there is only one ‘Central Criminal Court’. 

  • Garden Court’s Keir Monteith KC (pictured, right), Doughty Street’s Garry Green KC (left) and aspiring barrister Fidel Bonnah (centre)
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    Goalscorer's art

    2026-05-01T14:39:00Z

    Art Not Evidence, which has been campaigning to restrict the use of creative expression as evidence in criminal trials, takes part in an important football tournament.

  • Baroness Chakrabarti and Baroness Hale1
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    Baronesses love-in takes a turn as Hale talks jury reform

    2026-05-01T10:25:00Z

    Obiter was in the audience for the JUSTICE North event in Liverpool on Thursday, which culminated in a fireside (minus the fire) chat in the resplendent town hall between Baronesses Hale and Chakrabarti. We expected the interview would consist of a few pleasantries, plenty of mutual admiration and the odd ...

  • Batman costume
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    What Not to Wear? Court bars bikinis and Batman costumes

    2026-04-28T10:48:00Z

    New HMCTS guidance released on dressing appropriately in court. 

  • Memory lane
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    Memory lane

    2026-04-21T14:46:00Z

    Co-op Group move into legal services, an education shake-up, and a legal electronic network: a stroll down Gazette memory lane. 

  • Robot holds justice scales
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    Expect a junior minister to take the (white) heat

    2026-04-18T00:01:00Z

    HMCTS will test the ability of its home-grown AI software to generate transcripts of Crown court proceedings.

  • Commons commitee
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    Empty seats in the Commons

    2026-04-17T09:26:00Z

    Just four MPs bothered to show up to interrogate leaders of the LSB and SRA – and one left halfway through.