OBITER – Page 40
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NewsKnitting kits and Kintsugi, anyone?
PR departments of top firms are giving us a glimpse of what office life will be like after the much-heralded demise of lockdown.
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NewsProse and cons
We’ve spotted a trend of judges adding a touch of stylistic vim to the opening sentences of their rulings.
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NewsA magic circle mindset
Linklaters lawyers given £300 to spend via their 'personal wellbeing concierge'.
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NewsSociety goes Round the Island
Solicitor crew takes on one of the biggest events in the yachting calendar.
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NewsWhen cat killers end up in court
Steven Bouquet, convicted in June of cat killing in Brighton, seems to have been something of a throwback to the New York of the 1890s.
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NewsGood Law Project’s reality check
Barrister Jolyon Maugham’s Good Law Project – ‘Our mission is to achieve change through the law’ – specialises in catching the government out on alleged legal breaches in the way contracts appear to be awarded to chums of people in high places.
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NewsBuckland celebrates the double
Lord Mayor's annual dinner hears from the lord chancellor and lord chief justice.
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NewsNo laughing matter: Bob Mortimer returns to the law
Comedian is making a BBC Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of pro bono charity LawWorks.
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NewsSomething for nothing
Retired partner and district judge Stephen Gold remembers his time as an articled clerk.
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NewsSupreme Court gets social
£400,000 investment on IT and broadcasting pays off in viewing figures.
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NewsDirty deeds
Housing minister was speaking from experience when he told conference 'old and dusty' documents have to be located in the homebuying and selling process.
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NewsCriminal lawyers checking account
What steps should we take or have taken to save a client (and probably others) from themselves?
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NewsFake whiplash claimant not boxing too clever
Boxer made professional debut five days after soft-tissue injury.
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NewsLawyers take the blows as Sir Geoffrey throws haymakers
A tip for future hearings: think first, write later - and avoid extreme adjectives.
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NewsMinister wades into a Grey area
As many a rising politician has discovered, the road from saloon bar pundit to world statesman is littered with potholes.