Ecclesiastical law. I always wonder how people get into that when it seems so few (if any?) law schools teach it. Are the practitioners church people who happen to be lawyers and then combine the two? A role like Dean of Arches would be really cool.
Or maybe an expert on the law of bottomery - just for the lolz.
There's a firm in Wells that does Ecclesiastical. Forget their name but they're lovely people. Think most of the churchy stuff these days just falls under the remit if charity law.
Art is an extremely difficult sector to break into. Sewn up by a small number of niche firms. There was someone at TLT who spent 2 years tying to get into it and failed.
I onced looked at a copy of the Ecclesiastical Law Journal. It seems to be mostly about the rules of churchyards, church buildings and how they can be changed, and then things to do with the employment of clergy and how to deal with them when they misbehave. Then there is the never ending child abuse and child protection stuff. I imagine that overal it would be a very interesting area covering lots of aspects of law such as negligence, employment, etc.
I have a soft spot for firms that know they are a bit rubbish, but have a Chambers Band 1 ranking for some obscure niche, that they then flog to death on all their marketing materials.
As a trainee, I sat with the 'doyen' of [niche area of practice with only 2 competitors redacted to avoid 'outing']. He had virtually no work, but still managed to maintain his 'leading individual' ranking year after year, and the firm duly milked the band 1 ranking for far more than it was worth.
Ecclesiastical law is the only volume of Halsbury that’s properly standalone without much reference to other volumes / areas of law.
i used to look after the c of e - forget the actual formal name for it now, but used to enjoy going to their buildings in Westminster for meetings as so beautiful. Ditto the royal household who were also my clients at the time and meetings at buck house.
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Ecclesiastical law. I always wonder how people get into that when it seems so few (if any?) law schools teach it. Are the practitioners church people who happen to be lawyers and then combine the two? A role like Dean of Arches would be really cool.
Or maybe an expert on the law of bottomery - just for the lolz.
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Bloodstock law is pretty niche, but most practitioners are general commercial/family business lawyers with good contacts in the racing world.
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I think Ecclesiastical Lawyers tend to be churchy people who also qualify as lawyers.
that firm in the chancery at Westminster do all that don’t they - Lee Bolton?
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Must be a load of CofE land to manage tbf
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Isn’t there something weird like the Archbishop of Canterbury is technically head of the notary profession?
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I once saw a barrister list “Church tasting” in his outside interests. I’ve been intrigued about that for around 15 years.
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I'm getting into art law, or at least, I have done one art finance deal, which counts.
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next big thing in litigation is going to be "pets lit" - owners fighting each other on behalf of their pets
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There's a firm in Wells that does Ecclesiastical. Forget their name but they're lovely people. Think most of the churchy stuff these days just falls under the remit if charity law.
Art is an extremely difficult sector to break into. Sewn up by a small number of niche firms. There was someone at TLT who spent 2 years tying to get into it and failed.
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Many of these things like "football law" seem to be generalists who combines things like employment, contracts/companies, tax, etc.
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Space law sounds fun. Also Antarctic law, I imagine they're similar (both dealing with terra nullius sort of thing).
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The Church Commissioners look after the property stuff. They use the big City property firms.
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I onced looked at a copy of the Ecclesiastical Law Journal. It seems to be mostly about the rules of churchyards, church buildings and how they can be changed, and then things to do with the employment of clergy and how to deal with them when they misbehave. Then there is the never ending child abuse and child protection stuff. I imagine that overal it would be a very interesting area covering lots of aspects of law such as negligence, employment, etc.
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I have a soft spot for firms that know they are a bit rubbish, but have a Chambers Band 1 ranking for some obscure niche, that they then flog to death on all their marketing materials.
As a trainee, I sat with the 'doyen' of [niche area of practice with only 2 competitors redacted to avoid 'outing']. He had virtually no work, but still managed to maintain his 'leading individual' ranking year after year, and the firm duly milked the band 1 ranking for far more than it was worth.
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Law, custom and practice of the wholesale diamond trade. Former boss used do this. Seemed v cool to me.
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Really? My experience is they use the big charity law firms' property wonks.
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Bona vacantia is a small but growing niche
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did a bit of BV too, recently
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Wine litigation is a thing.
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Ecclesiastical law is the only volume of Halsbury that’s properly standalone without much reference to other volumes / areas of law.
i used to look after the c of e - forget the actual formal name for it now, but used to enjoy going to their buildings in Westminster for meetings as so beautiful. Ditto the royal household who were also my clients at the time and meetings at buck house.
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I've actually done some space law and it is interesting.
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Heritage Property law can be an interesting sub-sector of Private Client work.
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