Obiter – Page 38
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NewsThe perils of unmuting during a video hearing
Highly unprofessional language halts proceedings at the Supreme Court of Victoria.
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NewsRock and roll (the classical way)
Mr Justice Stewart’s working group on hourly rates gets in an early boost for Roman and Greek mythology.
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NewsCourt in a heatwave
Obiter is grateful to the reader who got in touch to lament the ‘intolerable’ conditions at Westminster Magistrates’ Court during last month’s heatwave.
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NewsPutin's People press pack come in from the cold
Press covering the opening of the oligarchs' libel claim are told to keep their distance.
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NewsDamning with faint praise?
Hats off to Mr Justice Chamberlain for a (backhanded) endorsement of the profession’s standing.
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NewsMaking space for the arts – The Rolls Building
Even in times of national crisis, space should never be wasted. Everyone gains when the arts have a shot at filling it.
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NewsBuckland's portfolio career
Lord chancellor apparently sees himself as a plumber and admiral of the fleet.
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NewsKnitting kits and Kintsugi, anyone?
PR departments of top firms are giving us a glimpse of what office life will be like after the much-heralded demise of lockdown.
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NewsProse and cons
We’ve spotted a trend of judges adding a touch of stylistic vim to the opening sentences of their rulings.
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NewsA magic circle mindset
Linklaters lawyers given £300 to spend via their 'personal wellbeing concierge'.
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NewsSociety goes Round the Island
Solicitor crew takes on one of the biggest events in the yachting calendar.
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NewsWhen cat killers end up in court
Steven Bouquet, convicted in June of cat killing in Brighton, seems to have been something of a throwback to the New York of the 1890s.
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NewsGood Law Project’s reality check
Barrister Jolyon Maugham’s Good Law Project – ‘Our mission is to achieve change through the law’ – specialises in catching the government out on alleged legal breaches in the way contracts appear to be awarded to chums of people in high places.
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NewsBuckland celebrates the double
Lord Mayor's annual dinner hears from the lord chancellor and lord chief justice.
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NewsNo laughing matter: Bob Mortimer returns to the law
Comedian is making a BBC Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of pro bono charity LawWorks.
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