All Obiter articles – Page 105

  • Edinburgh
    News

    Masters and moaners

    1 December 2014

    Edinburgh uni to offer masters in complaint-handling.

  • Memory Lane
    News

    Memory lane

    1 December 2014

    Stories from yesteryear.

  • Dictionary
    News

    Words apart

    1 December 2014

    Obiter’s appeal for legal neologisms showed a definite logophiliac tendency in the profession.

  • James Morton
    News

    Masquerading solicitors

    24 November 2014

    A tale of a fake solicitor, with highly Brilliantined black hair.

  • Mohammed Wakil
    News

    Learning on the job

    24 November 2014

    Chris Grayling could follow the example of a Nigerian minister – by getting a law degree.

  • Gorilla
    News

    Dressing the part

    24 November 2014

    If you were applying to be a judge, what would you wear at the interview?

  • Madam Butterfly
    News

    Come up with a bravo brief to win tickets

    24 November 2014

    Create a plot twist involving the intervention of a family solicitor.

  • Margaret Thatcher
    News

    Memory lane

    17 November 2014

    Sufficient publicity has to be created so that Margaret Thatcher is forced to make forcible demands of other governments over the Ehiopian famine.

  • Monty Python ‘Yorkshire men’ sketch
    News

    Nah then lad

    17 November 2014

    Bar Council chair went to Queen Elizabeth Grammar, Wakefield – as did someone else you might be familiar with.

  • Dictionary
    News

    Find your language

    17 November 2014

    Fancy preloading al desko tonight before going out twerking? Or how about a free dictionary?

  • Lord Sugar
    News

    Sugar coated

    17 November 2014

    The lawyers on TV show The Apprentice survive another week.

  • Carry on Matron
    News

    What a carry on

    17 November 2014

    Awards season has already provided a very ironic moment.

  • Gareth Beynon
    News

    Man with a van

    10 November 2014

    A jury liked the idea of a 56-year-old portly solicitor breaking into a vehicle.

  • Sadiq Khan
    News

    Labour pains

    10 November 2014

    It was a mixed week for the legal team of Her Majesty’s loyal opposition.

  • Sir Edward Eveleigh
    News

    Memories of Eveleigh trials

    10 November 2014

    News of the death of Sir Edward Eveleigh evokes stories involving the urbane judge.

  • Lucy Worsley
    News

    Storm in a pre-nup

    3 November 2014

    Unusual pre-nuptial agreements.

  • red wine
    News

    Naked lunch

    3 November 2014

    The wine is there. Why not drink it?

  • Memory Lane
    News

    Memory Lane

    3 November 2014

    Clementi: consumers back single regulatory body.

  • Julian Barnes
    News

    Novel approach

    3 November 2014

    Reluctant speaker Julian Barnes was called to the bar.

  • Dentists
    News

    Nightmare on PR street

    2014-10-31T12:44:00Z

    It's Halloween. And, it seems, dentists are more scared than you.