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  • Banksy after erasure
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    Banking on damage limitation

    2025-09-12T10:32:00Z

    When HMCTS really wants to fix a bit of damage to its estate, it moves at a blazing pace.

  • James Morton
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    'The best ****ing night of our lives'

    2025-09-11T15:10:00Z

    Following on from the park baseball boys (1 August), I did defend other brothers who were a bit more venal. They lived near the old cinema in the Caledonian Road, which seemed to show endless Randolph Scott double bills. It was also conveniently near Pentonville Prison, from which another client, ...

  • Evelyne Berezovsky
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    All the right notes

    2025-09-11T14:59:00Z

    Solicitor-composer brings a series of concerts to London.

  • Jeevan Singh Dhothar
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    Learning the lingo

    2025-09-10T15:29:00Z

    Newly qualified solicitor Jeevan Singh Dhothar has obtained a GCSE in Punjabi. 

  • Neidle and Sikka
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    Neidle match

    2025-09-09T15:17:00Z

    Neither Dan Neidle nor Prem Sikka is publicity shy, nor found wanting when it comes to a dissenting opinion. All similarities end there.

  • Banksy, RCJ September 2025
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    Banksy comes to court

    2025-09-08T15:27:00Z

    Work featuring a judge with gavel is promptly covered up. 

  • Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
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    Protecting Taylor Swift's Love Story from Bad Blood

    2025-08-27T10:09:00Z

    Family lawyers say a well-crafted nuptial agreement sets clear foundations and protects both parties.

  • Hill Dickinson stadium
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    Hill Dickinson kicks off at Everton

    2025-08-22T10:27:00Z

    New stadium hosts its first Premier League game on Sunday when the Toffees take on Brighton and Hove Albion.

  • Krishangi Meshram
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    Lawyers are definitely getting younger

    2025-08-19T11:30:00Z

    Congratulations to Krishangi Meshram who has qualified as a solicitor at the age of 21 years and three months. 

  • Memory lane
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    Memory lane

    2025-08-13T00:01:00Z

    Embracing agile working and a Law Society president from Manchester: a stroll down Gazette memory lane. 

  • Bay City Rollers
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    Bye bye, baby? Not for Andrew…

    2025-08-12T00:47:00Z

    A former Law Society president is celebrating 50 years with the same Merseyside firm.

  • Ozzy: not always one for the small print
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    Rose from the dead

    2025-08-11T09:53:00Z

    Kent firm Furley Page spots a legal angle to the death of heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne.

  • Gavel1
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    Never snows but it pours

    2025-08-09T00:01:00Z

    What could be more uplifting for debt-laden students than a prominent Conservative denouncing them as ‘snowflakes’ in a national newspaper.

  • Braverman article
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    Braverman's bombast straight from playbook

    2025-08-06T15:49:00Z

    We asked ChatGPT for a 400-word Telegraph article on the demise of the legal profession...

  • Memory lane
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    Memory lane

    2025-07-30T10:36:00Z

    The abolishment of the year-and-a-day rule for murder, calls for less prescription on ABSs, and the Valley Parade fire disaster. 

  • Todner Hayes
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    Keep on keeping on

    2025-07-28T00:01:00Z

    Veteran defence solicitor Karen Todner had cause for celebration last week.

  • Bayesian yacht
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    Judge’s poignant postscript

    2025-07-27T00:01:00Z

    ‘In the course of finalising this judgment, three extraordinary events occurred.’

  • SWLLC group pic
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    Centre stage at the semicentennial

    2025-07-26T00:30:00Z

    South West London Law Centres hosts ‘thank you’ event, reuniting over 100 people who have helped shape group over past five decades.

  • James Morton
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    Thinking with your eyes shut

    2025-07-22T00:01:00Z

    Barristers used to pile across the road to a restaurant opposite the Old Bailey for a couple of glasses of wine at lunch. And what about judges?

  • Death star
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    Rising (death) star

    2025-07-21T00:01:00Z

    A secret passion from a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...