Silk…

...is a new six-part BBC drama about life at the Bar starring Maxine Peak and Rupert-Penry-Jones. First episode here. Doubtless full of useful stimulus material for teaching the legal profession.

The series’ author, Peter Moffatt talks about it here.

Leave a comment - did you rate it or not, and why? Any useful bits for students?

Tesco Law, John Lewis-style ads and ABSs [2 Apr 2012]
Jury trial under threat…again! [17 Jan 2012]
Quality problems for the judiciary? [8 Dec 2011]
Do we need more pupillages? [25 Oct 2011]
Self-Defence [7 Oct 2011]
Modern Legal Apprenticeships [27 Sep 2011]
On Duty [7 Sep 2011]
A landmark case for the jury [20 Jul 2011]
Sentencing Reform Podcast [8 Jul 2011]
Jury trial and the internet [16 Jun 2011]
Government set to axe sentencing reforms? [8 Jun 2011]
The Inns of Court [16 May 2011]
Less places and more competition [6 Apr 2011]
Solicitors: more of them, and more diverse. [4 Apr 2011]
No Bar to The Bar [22 Mar 2011]
Inequality in the profession - “more needs to be done” [8 Mar 2011]
The two-year LLB [2 Feb 2011]
Free interactive resource! [25 Jan 2011]
A career in legal advice work? [24 Jan 2011]
Twitter Joke Trial [22 Nov 2010]
Important changes to homicide law [24 Sep 2010]
How to be a city solicitor - and a podcast… [25 Aug 2010]
Judicial diversity [5 Jul 2010]
Pupillage…. getting fairer or wishful thinking? [21 May 2010]
Guardian Law [13 May 2010]
The beginning of the end for Tesco Law? [31 Mar 2010]
Magna Carta [22 Mar 2010]
The Angola 3 [10 Mar 2010]
Are juries fair? [21 Feb 2010]
Juries and the web [26 Jan 2010]
Coroner’s Courts [24 Jan 2010]
Juries and mental illness [11 Jan 2010]
First criminal trial without a jury for 400 years to go ahead next week [8 Jan 2010]
Are law students being taken for a ride? [11 Dec 2009]
Great story for English Legal System revision generally… [7 Dec 2009]
Reform of libel law [22 Nov 2009]
Tesco Law here we come? [19 Nov 2009]
Simon Myerson QC on life at the bar and advice on getting pupillage [26 Oct 2009]
Revision Presentation - Introduction to Criminal and Civil Law [21 Oct 2009]