Obiter

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    I'll get my coat: insecure items

    2025-11-04T10:53:00Z

    The dangers of leaving belongings unattended. 

  • Kirkland & Ellis LLP office sign
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    Kirkland gets the message

    2025-11-04T00:01:00Z

    Chicago-headquartered firm allegedly gained a reputation for uncooperative behaviour when negotiating contracts. 

  • Newcastle upon Tyne
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    Toon balmy

    2025-11-03T10:42:00Z

    Research reveals the best and worst places in England to start a career in the law.

  • A Toronto Blue Jays fan reacts in a bar after the LA Dodgers defeated the Blue Jays in Game 7 of baseball's World Series. Vancouver, British Columbia, 1 November 2025
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    Terrible timing for turning up in Toronto

    2025-11-03T10:33:00Z

    Fate dealt the International Bar Association a bad hand as delegates flocked to a city still in mourning from the night before.

  • Memory lane
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    Memory lane

    2025-10-30T14:53:00Z

    Lifting ban on lawyer adverts and celebrating 25 years of legal aid: a stroll down Gazette memory lane. 

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    Week link

    2025-10-30T14:42:00Z

    Gird your loins for London Arbitration Week, five days and nights of brainstorming and networking. 

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    Name dropping

    2025-10-29T14:33:00Z

    Lawyer cuts through the flummery of stripping titles. 

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    SRA sorrows come not in single (s)pies

    2025-10-28T14:26:00Z

    History repeated itself at the SRA’s compliance conference. As tragedy or farce. You be the judge. 

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    Tube passengers hammered

    2025-10-27T11:04:00Z

    Latest sighting of an inappropriate gavel. 

  • James Morton
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    Stray barrister’s day at the races

    2025-10-22T00:01:00Z

    I still think of barrister Billy Rees-Davies QC, rogue that he was, with great affection.

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    Fast worker

    2025-10-21T00:01:00Z

    Alexander Morgan, partner at national firm Knights, races classic cars competitively.

  • Spotlight on hot seat
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    SRA leaders face the music at annual conference

    2025-10-20T11:20:00Z

    More than 1,000 compliance officers will be in Birmingham tomorrow. 

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    Of mice and ministers

    2025-10-15T15:56:00Z

    One-time junior barrister recalls days before digital evidence. 

  • Lady chief justice, lord chancellor and master of the rolls
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    Judicious advice on chancellor churn

    2025-10-02T10:41:00Z

    The loudest laughs at David Lammy's swearing-in as lord chancellor yesterday went to quips by the lady chief justice, Lammy himself and attorney general Richard Hermer - though not necessarily in that order. Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill prompted chuckles with a recollection about Lammy’s predecessor Shabana Mahmood. ’It was only ...

  • LCJ Carr with portrait
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    Here’s looking at you, lady chief justice

    2025-10-01T10:16:00Z

    Portrait of Baroness Carr to hang in Inner Temple. 

  • Memory lane
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    Memory lane

    26 September 2025

    Law Society Gazette, 28 September 2015 VW emissions scandal Revelations that motor giant Volkswagen fitted diesel cars with software that would manipulate the results of US emissions tests are set to prompt a global wave of litigation and possible criminal charges in Germany. In the UK, national firm Slater and ...

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    In case of an emergency

    26 September 2025

    Regular Gazette readers will recall that the SRA went all ‘Edith Piaf’ over Axiom Ince and the missing millions.

  • Lucy Letby Conviction stage
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    Emotions run high over Letby documentary

    2025-09-26T09:08:00Z

    Invited to a preview screening of the new documentary Conviction: The Case of Lucy Letby, Obiter expected to watch in an environment of sombre silence. In fact, it was not long before screen 1 of the Curzon Soho cinema heard the first shout of ‘nonsense’.

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    Lawyer set for small screen portrayal

    2025-09-24T11:41:00Z

    ITV’s latest blockbuster drama The Hack, which premiers tonight, will have one particularly avid lawyer viewer amongst the millions tuning in.

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    When legal aid boosted divorce

    2025-09-24T00:01:00Z

    Back when legal aid became readily available for divorce cases, discontented wives who had married young realised they no longer had to put up with disagreeable husbands.