Bullying and sexual harassment of women in the legal profession is greatly exaggerated, the Lord Chief Justice has said. Lord Burnett of Maldon told the Lords Constitution Committee that a small minority of judges behaved badly towards female barristers and that there was no evidence of a wider prob
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A woman has been convicted of fraud in what is believed to be the first private prosecution in the UK by an insurance company against a so-called "slip-and-trip" fraudster. Former law student Farida Ashraf, 41, was given a 21-month suspended sentence in Bradford Crown Court yesterday after pretendin
A man who convinced his colleagues he was a barrister so he could pursue his “obsession” with a career in law has been jailed. Scott Willey, 27, pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud by false representation, one count of making/supplying an article for the use of fraud, one count of fa