OBITER – Page 52
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NewsBlonde ambition still burns
Nearly two decades after first wowing audiences with her legal skills, Elle Woods is returning to the big screen (lockdown permitting) in Legally Blonde 3.
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NewsPharmacist dispenses with legal career (for now)
A trainee solicitor has put her legal career on hold to return to full-time work in the fight against coronavirus. Thorrun Govind was less than a year into her training contract with healthcare firm Hempsons when the pandemic began. Her firm has selflessly allowed her to go back to her ...
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NewsVexing case of law’s serial suer
While there is doubtless fierce competition for the title of most annoying lawyer, the winner – by a margin – must be one-time Bedford Row solicitor Alexander Chaffers.
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News10,000 reasons to walk in the park
Alas, the London Legal Walk, the biggest meet-up of the legal year, was an early casualty of the pandemic.
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NewsHow do you plead – interesting or boring?
A judge's blunt observational style is under scrutiny in Australia.
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NewsBeacon of gratitude in Chancery Lane
Law Society headquarters turns blue for the NHS on Thursdays.
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NewsOut of Africa and back for a coup
I arrived on an overnight plane to observe trials in a country where a coup had been thwarted.
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NewsFury’s ringside seat at new office
Lancashire firm Alexander Grace Law marks opening of new office with message from world heavyweight champion.
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NewsA strong signal of the problems with remote hearings
Virtual hearing of the justice committee gains first-hand experience of gremlins.
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NewsVirtual tribunal lives up to reality
Lots of fingers were crossed last week when the disciplinary case against Baker McKenzie resumed in a virtual courtroom after a four-month adjournment.
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NewsFitness to practise
A virtual fitness challenge to raise money for charities affected by Covid-19 has raised a blood-pumping question: which lawyers are fitter – those in-house or in private practice?
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NewsArt of the matter
As we hit week seven of lockdown, art lovers are running out of options for feeding their addiction.
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NewsBar’s jimmer in the box seat
Jimmering – to get a free or better seat than that paid for – seems to have begun in the 1930s.
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NewsTaking isolation on the chin
Several staff members at Slater and Gordon have participated in an ‘isolation beards’ group.
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NewsSupreme Court ceremony is intimate - but distant
Lord Justice Leggatt was sworn in personally by the president, but behind closed doors.