A host of new lawyers have entered Parliament as a result of the Conservative Party’s decisive victory last night. In Stroud, Conservative Siobhan Baillie gained the marginal seat from Labour. Baillie, a non-practising family solicitor, worked her way up from legal secretary to qualify. Peter Gibson gained another marginal seat for the Tories: Darlington. Gibson […]
All the latest updates from the legal world as the UK goes to the polls.
Our housing crisis is a long-running, festering wound in the UK’s body politic, says Eversheds Sutherland’s Bruce Dear.
Police were called after a City lawyer burst into the office of the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Finchley & Golders Green and abused her, the Jewish Chronicle is reporting. It is claimed that on Friday afternoon Jonathan Metliss stormed into the office of Luciana Berger, who defected from the Labour Party and is now […]
Despair was the order of the day in The Lawyer’s survey of voting intention for the upcoming general election. More than 1,700 lawyers responded, with the solicitor who employed the phrase “God help us all” summing up the mood of those who left comments. The majority of commercial lawyers are now expressing an intention to […]
Two former Slaughter and May solicitors go head to head in Middlesbrough; Clydes’ former COO and an ex-Latham lawyer stand for the Brexit Party; a Macfarlanes alum aims to win for the Lib Dems; and all the other lawyers hoping for your vote.
Questions are being raised over why a newly-qualified barrister, who is not listed on any of the Attorney General’s panels, was drafted into the government’s legal team for the historic Brexit case against Gina Miller. The most junior member of the Prime Minister’s counsel and a former associate of Dominic Cummings at Vote Leave, Richard […]
The Lord Chancellor, Robert Buckland QC, has moved to speak up for Scotland’s judges after sources in government appeared to imply they were politically biased. This morning, the Scottish Court of Session ruled that this week’s prorogation of Parliament by Prime Minister Boris Johnson is unlawful. An appeal begins in the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The […]
Former Skadden lawyer also gets big Government job.
Here’s The Lawyer’s highly-sophisticated take on some of the options available.
Solicitor Mark Field, the Conservative Member of Parliament for London and Westminster, is under fire after footage emerged of him manhandling a female environmental protester at a formal dinner. Field can be seen pushing the woman against a pillar before grabbing her by the back of her neck. In this longer version of the video, […]
Boris Johnson may be the hot favourite to replace Theresa May as Conservative leader – and Prime Minister – in the party’s leadership race, but he has so far failed to attract the initial support of Parliament’s lawyers. Initial indications suggest that Johnson has 42 supporters among the Tory MPs who will whittle down the […]