New challenge for Hickinbottom LJ
Solicitor judge appointed to tackle allegations of corruption in the British Virgin Islands.
Driving change in murder mystery
1902: the year Australia first saw journalists use a car to get their copy filed before competitors on a particularly sensational case.
Meeting Sir Geoffrey Vos
Lord Burnett recalls the first time he encountered the newly appointed master of the rolls.
Kids’ stuff
Kids Law is a new podcast series answering children’s questions about how the law works.
Local heroes
Crosby firm scores marketing coup of year in minnows v giants FA Cup clash.
Memory lane 11 January 2021
A stroll down Gazette memory lane.
Romeo hits the right note
New MoJ permanent secretary is also president of a London amateur choir.
What ales the noble lord?
Jonathan Sumption QC’s withering denunciations of lockdown are pinned up outside the local Wetherspoons.
Assessing complaints about the ombudsman? Yours for £20k
Office for Legal Complaints is hiring a new adjudicator.
You don’t have to own a dog to work here, but it helps
Is an office pet helping you through these trying times?
Pretty in pink
A wintery scene from a Christmas card? No, it's the offices of Holley & Steer Solicitors.
The Life and Strange Adventures of Bishopsgate Crusoe, Solicitor
Who was marooned all alone in a City office during the first great LOCKDOWN.
Holding the key to £1.3m justice savings
Now, where did I put those keys to D Wing?
Lawyers not impressed with dreaded marketing strategy
'What would you like people to have in mind when they face you in litigation?' City firm asks.
Risqué business taints law officers
It is sobering to look back at history to see how some of the ‘great and good’ behaved.
Flowers and friars
20 White Friars is definitely a contender for our most aesthetically pleasing law firm premises.
Lord chief justice throws journalists a virtual bone
A 'new normal' online press conference attracts Fleet Street's finest.
Memory lane 30 November 2020
A stroll down Gazette memory lane.
Zoom boom gloom
Conference goers have been known to skip sessions for a round of golf, but this year’s truants had to come up with an alternative.
If 'law is a game', why does it need the LSB to ref?
'Law is a game' is cynicism worthy of Machiavelli.
