OBITER – Page 4

  • Businesswoman carrying files
    News

    Wrong numbers

    2025-05-27T14:12:00Z

    Misnumbering of court bundles is ‘only too common’, an unimpressed Court of Appeal judge tells litigants.

  • Everton's new stadium at Bramley Moore dock in Liverpool
    News

    Hill treats blues

    2025-05-24T00:01:00Z

    Everton Football Club has unveiled an exclusive sponsor for its new Bramley Moor Dock home, but will it stick?

  • James Morton
    News

    Trial by TV: You be the Judge

    2025-05-20T00:01:00Z

    Channel 5 programme presented by Anne Robinson is designed to show the flaws of our sentencing system.

  • A robot's hand emerges from a laptop screen
    News

    First AI law firm? Er, not quite

    2025-05-19T00:01:00Z

    The regulator has authorised a start-up firm to provide legal advice generated by AI. But did the excitement go a little too far?

  • Edith Piaf
    News

    Edith Piaf back at the Cube

    2025-05-18T00:01:00Z

    Your regulator continues to accept criticism with all the humility of a toddler denying they drew on the walls while holding a crayon.

  • Yes Minister
    News

    Truth stranger than Whitehall fiction

    2025-05-17T00:01:00Z

    Is government policy being modelled on classic Whitehall sitcom Yes Minister?

  • Memory lane
    News

    Memory lane

    2025-05-10T00:01:00Z

    LAA's denial over an online billing system and lawyers' election triumph: a stroll down Gazette memory lane. 

  • Gig rowing
    News

    Solicitor gets the ideal bank holiday gig

    2025-05-07T15:44:00Z

    World Gig Rowing Championships attracts at least one legal competitor.

  • Boyband Blue
    News

    Goodbye to 'all rise'

    2025-05-06T09:26:00Z

    HMCTS says addition of 'if able' will create a more inclusive and accessible justice system for all. 

  • Morton landscape
    News

    Nothing to report on sentencing?

    2025-05-06T00:01:00Z

    James Morton on the Sentencing Council's recent proposals. 

  • Natural History Museum
    News

    You’ve been quangoed

    2025-05-05T00:01:00Z

    Lobby group TaxPayers’ Alliance comes up with interesting data on Britain’s ever-growing menagerie of quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations.

  • A male office worker falls asleep in front of his laptop
    News

    Battle of the banal blurbs

    2025-05-04T00:01:00Z

    It’s about time City law firms did something to pep up the boilerplate trotted out in press releases announcing partner promotions.

  • Paul Owen and the Big Purple Challenge Group
    News

    What has 20 legs and runs marathons?

    2025-05-03T00:01:00Z

    Solicitor Paul Owen and his fellow runners deserve special praise for breaking a world record in last weekend’s London Marathon.

  • St Michael’s Mount– Richard Davidson
    News

    Law - where the art is

    2025-05-02T14:57:00Z

    Obiter found plenty of light and imagination in this year’s Law Society Art Group members’ exhibition.

  • Holland Park Reimagined
    News

    Lawyers brighten up north London

    2025-04-29T10:19:00Z

    Law Society Art Group's annual show of members’ work returns to Lauderdale House, Highgate.

  • Steve Clarke, in-house lawyer at Virgin Media O2, ran for The Brain Tumour Charity
    News

    Gallery: Lawyers who ran the London Marathon 2025

    2025-04-28T11:03:00Z

    Did you take part in Sunday's race? Send in your snaps!

  • Memory lane
    News

    Memory lane

    2025-04-28T00:01:00Z

    Rising number of practitioners, single civil court fears, the need for a family court and extradition and the Stonehouse case: a stroll down Gazette memory lane. 

  • decibelbbastudents2
    News

    Going the extra nautical mile to fulfil a dying wish

    2025-04-27T00:42:00Z

    Adventurous seafaring lawyer's enduring wish was that his beloved yacht should not end up at the back of a boatyard. 

  • Royal Courts of Justice
    News

    RCJ hydrates hacks at last

    2025-04-26T00:01:00Z

    Royal Courts of Justice press room has a makeover that means journalists don't need to rinse out their mugs in the toilet sinks.

  • Mark Evans
    News

    A (vice) presidential run

    2025-04-25T10:16:00Z

    When Mark Evans ascends from Law Society VP to president later this year, could he be the society’s fastest president yet?