Unforeseen critic Judge Judy US courtroom star Judge Judy has waded into Britain’s row over controversial new sentencing guidelines — branding the changes “a mistake” and declaring the justice system “broken”. Appearing on Good Morning Britain last week, the famously…
Ruth Ellis was executed in 1955 Ruth Ellis London law firm Mishcon de Reya is pursuing a posthumous pardon for Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK. Ellis, aged just 28, was convicted in 1955 of…
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend The young lawyers shunning £180,000 salaries for an easier life [The Telegraph] (£) Surge in solicitor complaints makes regulator double response times [The Times] (£) Social media platforms…
Human rights specialist awaits sentencing A law PhD student at the University of Oxford has been found guilty of offences related to modern slavery. Lydia Mugambe, 49, joined Pembroke College, Oxford, in 2020 for a DPhil. In 2021, she was…
Law Society research Law firms’ earnings are on the rise but they’re waiting longer to get paid, new research produced by the Law Society has found. The Law Society’s 2025 Financial Benchmarking Survey reports a 6.1% increase in firm earnings…
SQE student seeks advice In our latest Career Conundrum, an SQE student wants to know if anyone else is in the same pickle, and for your advice on what their next steps should be. “I sat SQE1 in January and, unfortunately,…
A round-up of online musings, memes and more Opening statements don’t get the same attention as closing arguments. Too bad. A good opening is a map for the jury… [Miller Leonard on LinkedIn] Well this didn’t age well… [Emma Geale…
Addresses House of Commons Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has corrected the parliamentary record after scrutiny over a speech in which he described himself as having worked as a solicitor. In a point of order raised in…
‘POV: you just opened your SQE1 results and…’ Earlier this week, aspiring solicitors across the country received their results for the first stage of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE). But this year, checking results wasn’t the only thing on their…
The idea that 25 year-old rookie solicitors earning nearly £200,000 are ripe for replacement by tech is appealing, but likely to be wrong In 2017 I remember a partner at a large City of London law firm telling me confidently…