• Criminal justice? A string of hopeless clichés

    Carl Gardner
    July 3, 2008

    You don’t often get TV criticism at Head of Legal, but last night’s episode of Criminal Justice, the BBC’s new five-part drama about a murder trial, requires comment. Lindsay Duncan played Alison Slaughter, leading counsel […]

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  • Man bites dog! (legal version) 2

    Carl Gardner
    April 10, 2008

    The remaining lawyer was, strangely enough, not fired from The Apprentice last night; Sara led her team slightly dicily to Bollywood Night victory, and lives to fight another day. You don’t think she could win it, do […]

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  • The curse of legal qualifications

    Carl Gardner
    April 3, 2008

    It’s two lawyers down, one to go after Shazia got herself fired from The Apprentice last night. Quite wrongly, to be fair: the awful Jenny or the wet Lucinda shoulda got the boot. Then again, shouldn’t these […]

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  • The image of young lawyers: an expression of genuine concern

    Carl Gardner
    March 31, 2008

    It’s been brought to my attention by someone who has time for things other than blogging that BBC TV’s Sir Alan Sugar, in his search for yet another Apprentice, has been landed with three lawyers in this year’s […]

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