Friday Face: Stephen Lue -LGBTQ life and the law
Stephen Lue, barrister at Garden Court chambers talks to us about his life as a gay man, his career at
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Friday – Rehna Recommends : Lindsey Buckingham ‘Out of the Cradle’
As a child, late one night, when I should have been in bed, I stumbled across a music show on
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Friday – Rehna Recommends : The Shadow of the Wind
You know that book which a friend recommends to you, you read and then end up buying copies of for
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Friday Film: Rehna Recommends – LA Confidential
Pitch perfect performances from every single member of the cast. A storyline that keeps you gripped from beginning to end
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Friday Feeling: Kitchen Clubbing! By Rina
Friday Feeling: Dancing through Lockdown! Where to begin with the things I’ve learned about myself during lockdown? Well, I can
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Weekend women: Rehna Recommends – Memoirs of a Geisha
I first read Memoirs of a geisha around the time it was published in 1997. It was one of those
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Friday Fan:Rehna Recommends – The Collected Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker I usually have a good selection of books by my bedside, both fiction and non-fiction. But there are
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Weekend Vibes: 5 uplifting Instagram accounts to follow, by Lisa
5 Instagram Accounts That Have Helped Me Through Lockdown by Lisa (solicitor) 1. @SpaceMasks Harriet the founder of Spacemasks
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Tuesday Tips : Rehna recommends: Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Wild Swans by Jung Chang is as enthralling and emotionally devastating a memoir/biography as you will ever read. It is,
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Monday Man: A tribute to the tributes! By Jeremy Hall
All Hail the Copycats! A Tribute to the Tributes Family Law Barrister Jeremy Hall has seen Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie,
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Weekend Women: Endgame review by Tina Cook QC
Endgame – Samuel Beckett (1957) at The Old Vic ‘Can there be misery lovelier than mine?’ asks Hamm rhetorically
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Friday Film : Cannes I get a witness!
You need to stock up on the energy levels to survive the Cannes film festival because it’s probably the
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Friday Film : The Lost City of Z by Sara Hemrajani
THE LOST CITY OF Z REVIEW The thrill of discovery, the obsession with adventure and the dangers lurking in the
Read moreFriday Film : 10 things I learnt at the Baftas 2017
10 THINGS I LEARNT AT THE BAFTAS 2017 1. Glamour is best served hot. Ok, we didn’t get the usual
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Tuesday Talent : Ink portrait of George Michael
After I posted our tribute to George Michael featuring an oil painting my brother had made of him years ago,
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Friday Film : Silence : film review by Sara Hemrajani
FILM REVIEW – SILENCE (2016) No other filmmaker conjures images of gangsters and criminal excess as vividly as Martin Scorsese.
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Monday Mourning : Carrie Fisher RIP
(Montage created by Q) There are those who think we would better serve a ‘feminist’ version of the late Carrie
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Monday Music Mourning : George Michael RIP
‘If you’re gonna do it right, do it right’ And he did. Time after time George Michael wrote the right
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Tuesday Talent: Iconic wreaths by BoomBlooms
2016 has been a horrendous year for losing real talent and icons of the screen, pop world, comedy and sport.
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Tuesday Television : To Walk Invisible: The Brontes BBC drama
Wuthering Heights is my all time favourite book. There are others that are better plotted, more crisply written, ‘nicer’ but
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Friday Fun: The Greatest Fictional Lawyer Debate
Two years ago when we started itsalawyerslife, we ran a feature asking Who is the Greatest Fictional Lawyer. Even then
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Monday Mirth :The Archers guide to Family Law: Archer v Titchener
Archer v Titchener By Jennifer Kotilaine, Pauline Troy, Emma Romer and EilidhGardner; all barristers at 42 Bedford Row After the
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Friday Fun : Greatest fictional lawyer debate: best quotes
Elle Woods from Legally Blonde Vivian: Nice outfit. Elle: Oh, I like your outfit too, except when I dress up
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Thursday Theatre : Aladdin: theatre review
The audience goodwill was there even before the opulent red curtain went up. ‘A whole new world’ seemed already to
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Thursday Theatre : Breakfast at Tiffany’s: theatre review
I seem to be one of the few people in the Western Hemisphere who hasn’t seen the film version of
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