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  • Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce engagement
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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...

  • Illustration of man thinking
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    Missing in pre-action

    2025-07-20T00:02:00Z

    Never give a lawyer the job of naming something.

  • Win Lose sign
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    Third time, er, lucky?

    2025-07-19T00:01:00Z

    A record of played two, lost two would normally be a cause for some introspection. But not for the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

  • Memory lane
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    Memory lane

    2025-07-14T13:02:00Z

    'Murder by Lord Lucan', barristers' direct access push and a body on the steps of the Law Society: a stroll down Gazette memory lane. 

  • Portrait of Richard Hermer KC
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    Badly executed

    2025-07-13T00:01:00Z

    Phrase ‘execution of judgments’ has to go, Lord Hermer tells Council of Europe’s summer school in Liverpool.

  • Faxmachine
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    Fax for the memories

    2025-07-12T00:01:00Z

    Civil Procedure Rule Committee delivers the coup de grâce for the ‘outdated’ fax machine.

  • Lorry
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    Dashcam evidence sends claim down the toilet

    2025-07-11T09:40:00Z

    Clyde & Co released details this week about how it had thwarted the £81,000 claim of a driver