Students revising for exams in criminal law have a new tool to aid their studies: a YouTube series recreating some of the main cases and topics with Lego characters.

The College of Law’s degree congregation has awarded four of the most eminent lawyers in the United Kingdom honorary doctorates in law, in a ceremony which also marked the graduation of 439 former college LLB students and bestowed master’s qualifications on a further 12.

A free online resource to help lawyers adopt more mentally healthy ways of working has been launched by legal mental health charity LawCare, with expertise provided by the University of Sheffield and the Open University.

LawCare has extended its online chat service for legal professionals to four days a week from today, Tuesday 10 May 2022. 

Law Society president Linda Lee has become the first female head of the society to admit her daughter to the roll of solicitors.

The National Legal Alliance has launched a wellbeing service – métier legal lifestyle protect – to support lawyers who are struggling with burnout and poor mental health. 

This blog post will debate whether companies have a legal obligation to reduce their emissions in line with domestic agreements as well as broader climate agreements such as the Paris Agreement. I will talk about a recent legal case involving the multinational oil and gas company Shell.

How do you navigate the Legal Ombudsman Scheme?

The LPC is the vocational stage of training that follows either a law degree or postgraduate law conversion course. Anyone who falls within the SRA's transitional arrangements will have until 31 December 2032 to qualify this way.  

The Bach Commission has today published its report, The Right to Justice, including recommendations for a statutory right to justice, reforms to legal aid, and better public legal education. All three branches of the profession have responded to its publication, vociferously in support of its recommendations. 

Solicitors in England and Wales will celebrate Black History Month by embracing the ‘Proud to Be’ theme.

Solicitors in England and Wales celebrate Ramadan, wishing Muslim employees well as they balance fasting with working.

The Social Mobility Foundation revealed its top 75 UK employers for social mobility earlier in the week, with law firms making up 30% of the listed employers.

The government is in consultations to cut a further £220 million from criminal legal aid despite widespread opposition across the legal profession.

As UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham establishes his government and sets out his legislative agenda, the legal profession has been reacting to the appointment of Alex Norris as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice.

Despite talking a good game on diversity issues, the legal profession needs to “be brave and walk our talk” by making diverse workplaces an individual responsibility, according to the findings of the Miranda Brawn Annual Diversity Leadership Conference hosted by The University of Law earlier in October. 

As reported in the Law Gazette, the Legal Services Board Consumer Panel (LSBCP) has received a huge response from the legal profession and members of the public to its recent call for evidence on whether regulating the will-writing industry would be in the best interests of consumers.

The legal profession had its biggest turnout yet at the London Legal Walk earlier in May.

Solicitors should refuse clients’ instructions if they are discriminatory, the Law Society has said after an Afghan-born woman barrister was asked to return her instructions because the client wanted “a white male barrister”.

Barristers, solicitors, charity workers and law centre volunteers will congregate outside the Ministry of Justice tonight (18 April) in protest at the crisis in the justice system.