All Obiter articles – Page 18
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NewsAccess denied
Photo ID and staff card did not suffice for one Gazette reporter trying to enter court.
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NewsMemory lane: 21 April 2023
Barristers strike and solicitors are blasted on costs: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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NewsSaying farewell to a retiring Manchester legend
Joy Kingsley retires from day-to-day management at JMW Solicitors, where she turned a primarily local clin neg and PI practice into a full-service firm.
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NewsSolicitors make it through the Manchester marathon
Solicitors were among the 28,000 runners running the UK's flattest marathon.
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NewsFinding homes for 200 years of history
What do you do with a surplus 18th century Polish sword?
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NewsThe peer who couldn't quit
The indefatigable campaigner Andrew Phillips tried to make way for 'younger blood' in 2006.
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NewsFirm's TikTok success brings in a new audience
East Anglia practice has more than 4,100 followers - and its videos have 1 million 'likes'.
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NewsEx-BSB chief takes potshot at lawyers
Baroness Deech ends tweet on Law Commission review announcement with a sting.
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NewsMoJ stays on TikTok - for security purposes
Ministry of Justice has zero followers, follows zero accounts and has zero likes.
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Memory Lane
A prime minister visits the Law Society and estate agents are muzzled. A stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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NewsThe Oscar winner v the retired optometrist
Jury awards Gwyneth Paltrow $1 - plus costs - for ski collision after a memorable trial.
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NewsNew lease of life for Legal London's watering hole
The former Knights Templar is to continue as a pub rather than a coffee shop - or lawyers' office.
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On the attack
Over the years mercifully little in the way of violence has broken out in English courts. Perhaps the most famous example is from the time when a sort of franglais was the lingua franca. In 1631 it was recorded that a prisoner ‘puis son condemnation ject un brickbat a le ...
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NewsJudgment does justice to intrepid couple's tale of holiday woe
Ice conditions making the North West Passage unnavigable were not ‘unforeseeable circumstances’, judge finds.
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NewsA blast from the past
High Court settles issue over damage caused by one tonne Luftwaffe bomb detonated by bomb disposal experts at University of Exeter.
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NewsResponse by 6am: US lawyers pull ultimate all-nighter
Appellants in Trump privilege case had been given until midnight to file, with response deadline six hours later.
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NewsA season is a long time in politics
The victims’ commissioner role has been vacant since Vera Baird KC’s tenure came to an end last September.
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NewsPlacing the viewer in the dock
Artist Carey Young’s video work ‘Appearance’ presents UK women judges ‘diverse in their seniority, age and ethnicity’.