OBITER – Page 6

  • Gambia
    News

    Walking with kings, down the mall

    2023-11-01T14:48:00Z

    When it comes to career advice, there is a lot of talk these days about networking and the power of your network.

  • Peter Cook
    News

    Cui bono? We all do

    2023-10-31T14:40:00Z

    Which Latin terms should be preserved?

  • Poland’s former president Lech Wałęsa
    News

    Walesa wows the IBA

    2023-10-30T11:59:00Z

    Poland’s former president Lech Wałęsa was on characteristically impassioned form at this morning’s IBA conference in Paris. 

  • Memory lane
    News

    Memory lane

    2023-10-26T00:01:00Z

    A property portal set to go live, David Clementi's five-step plan and a barber at the Society's Hall: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.

  • Carey Street filming 2023
    News

    Heavyweight drama

    2023-10-25T00:01:00Z

    Legal London’s Carey Street once again ‘dressed’ for the purposes of period drama.

  • Secret Barrister
    News

    Secret barrister builds the brand

    2023-10-23T13:48:00Z

    Prolific social media poster and author’s latest announcement includes a new ‘identity’. 

  • Dr Craig Wright
    News

    Wright on the money

    20 October 2023

    Dr Craig Wright features in at least 17 High Court judgments over the past couple of years, generating work for specialists in everything from cryptography to defamation.

  • Jonathan Sumption KC
    News

    Jonathan Sumption, a significant monument

    2023-10-20T10:38:00Z

    National Trust Council’s candidate election manifestos include one from the former Supreme Court justice.

  • Clive Myrie, BBC news
    News

    Raising a red flag to the SRA

    2023-10-19T15:52:00Z

    BBC anchor Clive Myrie was not, as advertised, chairing the compliance event.

  • Freedom of Information Act
    News

    The brick wall of judicial conduct decisions

    2023-10-17T15:51:00Z

    JCIO is not defined as a public authority, freedom of information request reveals. 

  • Morton landscape
    News

    Barrister jailed for NZ kidnap plot

    2023-10-13T19:32:00Z

    In 1992, 46-year-old barrister John Burrett had not long opened chambers in Canterbury, Kent.

  • News

    Cutlery etiquette baffles Inn interlopers

    2023-10-13T19:31:00Z

    Treasury solicitor Susanna McGibbon and outgoing Law Society president Lubna Shuja chatted candidly about their careers at an event last Friday attended by more than 200 people. Turns out both had attended Inns of Court ‘dining sessions’ for would-be barristers – and neither knew why there were so many knives ...

  • arena-leeds-awards-2023
    News

    Arena gig for Yorkshire hordes

    2023-10-13T16:27:00Z

    Last week’s Yorkshire Legal Awards at New Dock Hall in Leeds was predictably glam, though never gaudy.

  • Labour-conference-2023
    News

    Labour of love

    2023-10-13T11:23:00Z

    This week’s Labour conference was so carefully stage-managed that sketch-writing was more difficult than finding a funded justice policy.

  • Memory lane
    News

    Memory lane

    2023-10-11T00:01:00Z

    A moment of crisis for legal education and wigs win as court dress remains formal: a stroll down Gazette memory lane. 

  • Justice secretary Alex Chalk and lady chief justice Dame Sue Carr, opening of the legal year 2023
    News

    Opening of the legal year goes woke as King James is shunned

    2023-10-10T00:01:00Z

    Readings by the lord chancellor and lady chief justice came from the trendy New International Bible at the annual service. 

  • Anna Bradley, SRA
    News

    SRA woos Tories in Manchester

    2023-10-09T13:36:00Z

    Solicitors Regulation Authority board chair included in line-up at Conservative party conference fringe event.

  • RCJ open day
    News

    Open day at the RCJ

    2023-10-09T13:09:00Z

    Royal Courts of Justice puts on a splendid show for this year’s Open House Festival.

  • Anna Comerford Jonathan Warren
    News

    Working in partnership

    2023-10-06T11:36:00Z

    Partners Anna Comerford and Jonathan Warren become business partners too with the advent of a new law firm.

  • Alice Kinder
    News

    Society elects youngest ever president

    2023-10-06T09:57:00Z

    Birmingham Law Society swears in 31-year-old Alice Kinder.