Over 1,000 small and medium-sized firms have gone under in the last 12 months, a recently published research paper has revealed.

The 2015 Bar National Mock Trial Competition saw over 2,000 students from state schools compete in a series of mock trials.

Dozens of barristers’ chambers are refusing to take on new defence work in protest at the crisis in the justice system created by the government’s cuts and reforms, the latest being changes to the Advocates Graduated Fee Scheme.

The majority of corporate legal departments will be using artificial intelligent systems in a year’s time, a survey of global businesses has predicted.

Tens of thousands of pounds have been spent on improving the security of top judges’ homes due to fears for their safety, a freedom of information request has revealed. 

Over half of all training contracts nationwide in 2016-17 were based in London, research by the Law Society has revealed.

Over 100 people have now qualified as solicitors through working as paralegals, instead of a traditional training contract.

A recent study has revealed that 37% of legal professionals worked on their days off last year, a figure predicted to rise to 50% in 2023.  

The first barristers’ set to address elitist discrimination at the Bar by adopting contextual recruitment practices has been accused of “virtue signalling,” according to its head of chambers.

A large proportion (53%) of future barristers are Oxbridge graduates, according to new research by Chambers and Partners, which also found that only 11% of pupils come from non-Russell Group universities. 

A UK charity that is involved in the provision of aid and development projects internationally, with the goal of ending poverty.

Oxford Brookes University announced earlier this week that it intends to stop offering the LPC in summer this year.

Oxford Brookes University has joined forces with corporate technology-focused law firm Moorcrofts to create an app that can read contracts to identify the sections that require human attention.

In contrast to The Guardian's recent league table revealing Cambridge University to be the UK's top law faculty, a Legal Week poll of 3,700 university law students has put Oxford University ahead of its rival.