Lawyers

Tim Crosland is being hauled back before top justices for his calculated act of protest Eco-barrister Tim Crosland will face contempt of court proceedings for leaking a Supreme Court judgment in protest at the result. The Solicitor General, Michael Ellis, ...

Academics warn against ‘worshipping freedom of expression’ in an age of digital disinformation Governments should consider making fake news a crime, Exeter Law School boffins say. A new paper by academics at the top uni concludes that other methods of ...

Cheeky bit of Liversidge v Anderson It’s one of English law’s most notorious decisions — and Lord Sumption thinks it has lessons for how the courts should tackle coronavirus rules. Liversidge v Anderson was the 1941 ruling by the House ...

Scores consistent with previous years, says regulator — if you don’t count students who encountered IT issues The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has released the pass rates for two of the three August bar exams that were marred by technical ...

PwC partner Ed Stacey reckons it’s getting harder to justify regional pay differences If everyone in a firm is mostly lawyering from their living room, what’s the point of paying people massive salaries to live in London? That’s the question ...

An ‘unedifying and really rather sad dispute’ A baffled judge has rejected a 41-year-old solicitor’s attempt to sue his parents for financial support. The man known only as FS, who has mental health problems and has been unemployed since 2011, ...

Top lawyer handed £55,000 fine for trying to kiss junior colleague and influence subsequent investigation The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) has published a judgment giving its reasons for fining ex-Baker McKenzie London boss Gary Senior £55,000 over a drunken attempt ...

Post had been condemned by the department’s top civil servant The Home Office The Home Office has deleted a tweet attacking “activist lawyers” after it was condemned by the department’s top civil servant. Matthew Rycroft, permanent secretary at the under-fire ...

Just grade us on the rest of the BPTC, students urge Law students are calling for the bar exams to be scrapped after candidates faced problems sitting the tests online. A Change.org petition argues that the Bar Standards Board (BSB) ...

Approached by mystery man on behalf of wealthy law student A University of Edinburgh law grad was offered £1,000 yesterday to sit someone else’s online exam. Hannah Smethurst received the approach via an online tutoring platform by a man offering ...