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Gunners ‘n’ Rosen
Premier League champs Manchester City were this week charged with breaches of financial fair play rules, leading to a glorious conflation of sports and legal reporting. Not to mention the resurrection of a familiar meme – a phalanx of suited and booted blokes held to represent City’s legal team. City, ...
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Magistrate with a literary bent
Pre-war chief magistrate Sir Chartres Biron, a stickler for the King’s English, fancied himself as something of a belle-lettrist.
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Madison Square Garden bans lawyers - if they are suing it
Adverse Attorney Policy could deprive lawyers of Billy Joel or the New York Knicks.
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Dwindling media pack and LCJ make for awkward union
Press officers outnumbered reporters at annual press conference.
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Tate expectations
Lord Leggatt puts the right context around the observation ‘What would be a nuisance in Belgrave Square would not necessarily be so in Bermondsey’.
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Royal family way
Members of the royal family used in hypothetical scenario to explain how schedule 1 to the Children Act works in practice.
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Here be dragons
Court hears complaint by children’s author over 2019 John Lewis/Waitrose Christmas TV advertisement and spin-off book.
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Scales of justice
What is as long as a novel and weighs around as much as a cat? Answer: skeletons in an eight-week trial at the Business and Property Courts.
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I was never good at the SACS race
Morton finds himself appointed sports secretary at the Solicitors Articled Clerks Society.
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SRA SLAPPed around by peers
Solicitors Regulation Authority chief walks into a bit of a lions’ den.
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Happy Valley has its eventful day in court
We can’t imagine HMCTS will be altogether happy with the latest instalment of the BBC1 drama.
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Quiz master: Ken takes greatest hit to Greatest Hits
Veteran DJ has a decent legal mind as well as a soothing voice.
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Bar chief looks over his shoulder
If you want to get the government off the ‘lefty lawyer’ agenda, the best way is perhaps not to quote the late Tony Benn to ministers.
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SRA lauds Legal Choices - but chooses not to reveal cost
Legal information site received more than 1.3m page views last year.