All Obiter articles – Page 27
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NewsTorn off a stipe
In the 1960s, to be assigned legal aid cases it was necessary to write to the court asking to be put on the register of firms willing to undertake this ill-paid work.
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NewsPays your money, takes your Choices
Back in January, the SRA published a breezy annual report about its pet project Legal Choices, a consumer service providing information on legal issues and the lawyers who can sort them. The report gave plenty of facts about the number of people who visited the site in ...
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NewsBuckland heads for Beach
Specialist company Electoral Calculus last year gave Sir Robert Buckland just a 3% chance of hanging on to his Swindon South seat at the next election.
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NewsAll the world’s a stage for Gazette scribe
‘The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers’ (Henry VI, Part 2), is among the Bard’s most famous lines, and one of his most controversial.
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NewsAn inspiration in the middle of disaster
Junior solicitor from Lancashire lends support to humanitarian efforts in wake of Turkey/Syria earthquake disaster.
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NewsLawyer goes viral over email typo
Media lawyer's appearance on Sunday on GB News emphasises benefits of checking for typos.
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NewsRaab keeps his own counsel as judges sweat
Dominic Raab doesn’t appear to like lawyers much, despite being one himself. But has this seemingly reflex hostility degenerated into outright provocation? Gazette columnist and legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg reported last month that more than 11,000 serving or former part-time judges in England and Wales stand to lose pension benefits ...
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NewsTomorrow’s - plus a few of yesterday’s - lawyers
Futurologist Richard Susskind identifies 15 new jobs for human lawyers alongside the robots.
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NewsSunak turns up in acquisition announcement
Prime minister makes a special appearance in law firm press release.
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NewsCash and curry
Data on Whitehall spending included £909 at Westminster curry house The Cinnamon Club.
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NewsBear necessities as Supreme Court moves to Manchester
UK's highest court asks Twitter to name a jumper-wearing teddy.
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NewsGunners ‘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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NewsMagistrate 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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NewsMadison 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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NewsDwindling media pack and LCJ make for awkward union
Press officers outnumbered reporters at annual press conference.
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NewsTate 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’.