Staffordshire University law students Shula Hickey and Eddy Bainbridge have won the 2005 national Negotiation Competition held between law schools across the UK. The competition, now in its eighth year, demonstrates the skill of negotiation in the UK’s future lawyers. This year the competition was supported by the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution, whose judges were impressed by the Staffordshire winners’ consistent ability to achieve successful
Bar’s pupil numbers plummet by 20 per cent
The number of pupils at the bar crashed by 20 per cent between 2003 and 2004, statistics published in the Bar Council Annual Report reveal. The figures show that there were just 572 pupils in 2004, with 51 per cent of those being male, compared with 711 in 2003. The 2003 figure is itself an […]