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NewsQuestion time
It’s the annual press conference of the individual known by sub-editors throughout the realm as ‘Top Judge’.
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NewsThe day Sid stood up for women’s rights
The Law Society librarians challenged Obiter to identify a connection between the Society and the comedian Sid James.
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NewsApocalypse now
One innovator showed what can be done simply by hitting the return key of a well-wired computer.
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NewsHigh achievers
Solicitors from national law firm Kennedys scaled the summit of Mount Toubkal, raising more than £40,000.
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NewsTowers of Babel?
In an attempt to emerge from its long, sorry history of computer projects, the MoJ has begun breaking up its procurements into so-called ‘towers’.
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NewsSome mothers do ’ave ’em
What do a 15-year-old Liverpool boy and celebrity ex-criminal Mark ‘Chopper’ Read have in common?
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NewsMemory Lane
Football: a game in which ethical standards consciously pervade disciplinary control.
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NewsThe chief justice who didn’t know he’d resigned
Lord Trevethin learned of his departure via a newspaper.
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NewsYorkshire competition winner takes the cake
AWB Charlesworth runs Bake Off in aid of local charity.
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NewsPink pedal power
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer won the coveted pink jersey at this year’s Tour de Law.
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NewsBoston raises a glass to the world
Lawyers excitedly taking selfies like teenagers, a naked Brad Pitt and more bow ties than the Bullingdon Club – such is life at the International Bar Association conference.
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NewsCeltic confusion
One seminar was attended by the president of the Law Society of Scotland, splendid in national dress with kilt, sporran and sgian dubh.
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NewsCounsel collective
The spectacle of so many lawyers all in one place set many minds thinking alike.