We’ll keep it short and sweet this week and let you know that the below news stories are essential reading for anyone heading off to a law firm assessment centre or interview soon, or for those just looking to top up their commercial awareness over the summer months.

Some 36 BBC employees are working toward CILEx qualifications through an in-house scheme at the corporation.

The BBC has opened applications for its 2023 solicitor graduate apprenticeship scheme which will enable four graduates to work in the BBC’s legal team to qualify as a solicitor through the Solicitors Qualifying Exam route.

Three legal apprentices have just started at the BBC, joining its in-house legal team on a two-year advanced apprenticeship course that will lead to a Level 3 CILEx Certificate in Law and Practice.

The BBC is to continue its trainee solicitor recruitment programme following a successful first two years. 

Has anyone else reached the point of the university year where your workload is so unmanageable that the only thing you do instead of facing it is watching TV? No? Just me? If you are looking for a way to salve your conscious as you turn your back on the hundreds of pages of reading you haven’t done yet (and which you promise yourself you will catch up on over Christmas), I would recommend watching something that is (however loosely) based around the law in some way. 

The world is unfair - 85% of global household wealth is in the hands of 10% of the population.

What do a Russian cellist, the prime minister's father and the perpetrators of the 1983 Brink's Mat gold bullion robbery all have in common? 

Steve Lewis, an undergraduate law student at Birkbeck University, has won the inaugural Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholarship, which aims to address the under-representation of black men from low-income households in large commercial law firms.

The BLD Foundation (BLD) recently held a reception at the House of Commons to raise awareness of the need to increase diversity in, and access to, the legal profession.

BPP University College of Professional Studies became BPP University on 6 August 2013.

Read this week’s commercial news round-up for some of the latest news relating to the business and legal worlds.

What could Brexit mean for the UK energy sector, including Hinkley Point C, the oil and gas industries, and skilled EU workers in Britain? 

Baker McKenzie partner Nick O’Donnell gives his predictions on the potential impact of Brexit on City law firms.

Keeping up with news affecting the business and legal world can be daunting on an ‘ordinary’ day or week, so this week’s commercial round-up is designed to pick out some of the most relevant, important and pressing issues that are facing the business and legal world as we speak.

Following Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s admittance into hospital, in a government briefing earlier this week Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab claimed it is too early to consider how the UK will exit the current coronavirus lockdown. As the UK heads into the Easter bank holiday weekend and nears the end of its third week in lockdown, here are the top news stories from the business and legal world.

Why did the government scrap the OST?