For those who will be entering your first year of university in just a little under a month, here are some of the things you can do to prepare for it.

In this video I discuss how networking can help you prepare for your pupillage applications. Networking is essential for the aspiring barrister so make sure you’re getting the most out of it by watching this video!

The Association of Graduate Recruiters has recently published its bi-annual survey, suggesting graduate job vacancies will rise by 17% this summer.

Will localism bring together our neighbourhoods?

Students never stop asking us what they can do to improve their commercial awareness, and aside from reading the weekly Commercial Questions written by top firms, the next best thing you can do is to learn about the business news stories being reported each week. Read on for a short summary of just that.

This blog will give a brief summary of how poverty is a major issue in relation to capital punishment in the US. 

So, you've got no training contract, you've just graduated with a non-law degree and you're faced with the decision of whether you want to self-fund the first part of your solicitor’s journey.

This week all eyes were on the "meeting of the century" (so described by North Korea’s official state newspaper), which was "tremendous" (so described by Trump). 

The UK government has been restricting international students from coming over to continue their studies in the UK for the past number of years.

Earlier this year, a review was commissioned to revaluate 50-year-old legislation regarding how financial assets are split, with calls for less generous financial awards expected to be requested for financially weaker spouses.

This blog centres around ‘Gillick competency’ – the standard that children must meet in order to be able to make decisions about their health and medical treatment.

Irrespective of the different covid-19 summative assessments styles that are implemented across universities, the overarching gist for all ‘timed open book assessments’ is that it sounds easy, but in fact it is quite challenging. Accordingly, here are three tips to help first-year students begin their preparations anew. 

If home ownership is not for everyone, how realistic a fix for the chronically undersupplied housing market is a new focus on delivering affordable rental homes – can the private rented sector really help the housing crisis?

Just as the media frenzy surrounding Andrew Marr's confession that he took out a superinjunction to supress news of an extramarital affair died down, another storm erupted over a premiership footballer's injunction to supress reports of his alleged extramarital affair with a reality TV star.

The Bar Council’s Wellbeing at the Bar Working Group has announced a series of new wellbeing podcasts, which are the latest in its efforts to provide online resources that aim to support the wellbeing and mental health of barristers, chambers staff and those who aspire to join the Bar.

Can freedom of expression be used as a defence to copyright offences?