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NewsChilli con carnage for novice lawyer
Alison Fitch brings Obiter’s series on first days in the law up to 1988, when she started as an office junior. Her duties were, ahem, varied: ‘Everything was delivered by hand in those days so I’d walk miles, added to that picking Chelsea buns up for the office from the ...
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NewsEh? Permission to approach the bench...
On the subject of contempt of court, Obiterventures to correct Mrs Justice Lang DBE over a stinging put-down in a judgment pub-lished last week.
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NewsDog's life for articled clerk
A bumper response this week for tales of first days in the law. His Honour Eric Stockdale contributes a story about the late Jim Seeman. ‘Jim was articled to a solicitor in Ruislip and usually spent the week there, returning to his home only at weekends. ‘Not long after he ...
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NewsWindies legend bowls 'em over
I can’t think in my pantheon of sporting lawyers how I came to omit the great West Indian cricketer Sir Learie Constantine. Mea culpa. He played for the Windies from 1923 until 1939, during which time he also played in Lancashire League cricket. Morton landscape Wisden described ...
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NewsJudicial diversity? Jury’s still out for LCJ
Criticising the slow progress made in broadening judicial diversity, human rights group Justice acknowledged that a number of the recommendations in its latest report will be unpopular with some.
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NewsMoni does justice to her marathon effort
‘Thank goodness for the Ministry of Justice!’ Not a phrase Obiter hears that often (or indeed at all) among lawyers.
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NewsMemory lane
The Law Society Gazette, 6 May 1997: Lord Irvine of Lairg QC, mentor to the new prime minister Tony Blair, was last week confirmed as the new lord chancellor after a general election that produced 68 lawyer MPs.
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NewsBar’s verdant shortcut gets the chop
A bridge too far – waxing lyrical about garden crossing gives way to outcry over public money.
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NewsCharles Russell Speechlys - a firm that knows its apples
Making 'leather' clothes from fruit? City firm gets that pop-up feeling.
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NewsWho’s next for the black and gold?
With election fever gripping the country (stay with us) the question on everyone’s lips is: who will be lord chancellor in the new government?
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NewsDestroyer of Victorian vice
Sometimes I worry about solicitors becoming too involved in their cases. A case in point, admittedly a century ago, is that of C H Collette, solicitor for the Society of the Suppression of Vice.
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NewsSnap poll could mean yet another new face at the MoJ
The lord chancellor’s robes are in and out of the dry-cleaners every fortnight. Or so it seems.
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News'A farrago of delusional nonsense.' So that's a no then?
There are some cases so finely balanced on the finer nuances of law that a judgment could genuinely swing either way.
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NewsAnd the Bafta goes to.. the CPS?
BBC three-part series is up for a prestigious television gong.