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.

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? 

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

New measures to improve the quality of advocacy in youth courts have been announced by the Bar Standards Board.

The Criminal Bar Association has struck a highly controversial deal with the government to suspend the planned legal aid cuts to Graduated Fee cases until after next year's general election.

It was one crisp January morning that I decided I needed to sit down with a cup of coffee and hammer out our Student Law Society Awards entry. The King’s College London Bar & Mooting Society (KCLBMS) was nominated for four awards this year and we finished the evening with the trophies for Best society for aspiring barristers and Best society for mooting.

The Bar Standards Board will work with CILEx Law School to offer training on the English legal system to its support staff.

With people in the Midlands and the North of England in “dire need of early legal advice”, the Bar Council has called for the government to invest in local court systems ahead of today’s spending review.

Social mobility advocates, a new group of barristers from across England and Wales, have joined the Bar Council’s award-winning social mobility campaign – #IAmTheBar.

The Bar Council represents almost 18,000 barristers in England and Wales.

Bar chairman Alistair MacDonald QC has said that there should be a complete ban on all fees paid by barristers to instructing solicitors to prevent attempts to disguise referral fees as administration fees.