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NewsRaab keeps his own counsel as judges sweat
Dominic Raab doesn’t appear to like lawyers much, despite being one himself. But has this seemingly reflex hostility degenerated into outright provocation? Gazette columnist and legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg reported last month that more than 11,000 serving or former part-time judges in England and Wales stand to lose pension benefits ...
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NewsTomorrow’s - plus a few of yesterday’s - lawyers
Futurologist Richard Susskind identifies 15 new jobs for human lawyers alongside the robots.
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NewsSunak turns up in acquisition announcement
Prime minister makes a special appearance in law firm press release.
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NewsCash and curry
Data on Whitehall spending included £909 at Westminster curry house The Cinnamon Club.
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NewsBear necessities as Supreme Court moves to Manchester
UK's highest court asks Twitter to name a jumper-wearing teddy.
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NewsGunners ‘n’ Rosen
Premier League champs Manchester City were this week charged with breaches of financial fair play rules, leading to a glorious conflation of sports and legal reporting. Not to mention the resurrection of a familiar meme – a phalanx of suited and booted blokes held to represent City’s legal team. City, ...
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NewsMagistrate with a literary bent
Pre-war chief magistrate Sir Chartres Biron, a stickler for the King’s English, fancied himself as something of a belle-lettrist.
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NewsMadison Square Garden bans lawyers - if they are suing it
Adverse Attorney Policy could deprive lawyers of Billy Joel or the New York Knicks.
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NewsDwindling media pack and LCJ make for awkward union
Press officers outnumbered reporters at annual press conference.
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NewsTate expectations
Lord Leggatt puts the right context around the observation ‘What would be a nuisance in Belgrave Square would not necessarily be so in Bermondsey’.
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NewsRoyal family way
Members of the royal family used in hypothetical scenario to explain how schedule 1 to the Children Act works in practice.
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NewsHere be dragons
Court hears complaint by children’s author over 2019 John Lewis/Waitrose Christmas TV advertisement and spin-off book.
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NewsI was never good at the SACS race
Morton finds himself appointed sports secretary at the Solicitors Articled Clerks Society.
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NewsScales of justice
What is as long as a novel and weighs around as much as a cat? Answer: skeletons in an eight-week trial at the Business and Property Courts.
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NewsSRA SLAPPed around by peers
Solicitors Regulation Authority chief walks into a bit of a lions’ den.