Morning round-up: Tuesday 25 August

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By Alex Aldridge on

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts

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Bride is arrested after her solicitor husband, 51, is found stabbed to death in their home just weeks after returning from their Vegas honeymoon [Mail Online]

Why I’m quitting as a magistrate [The Guardian]

Law firm Leigh Day says it receives several calls a week from interpreters desperate to flee Afghanistan and escape death threats for being “infidel spies” [The Telegraph]

Train death lawyer was tortured by guilt she was not a good mother: Millionaire suffered ‘personal problems’ and turned to drink after telling GP she had “ruined her life” [Mail Online]

What does a one nation justice policy mean in a global legal marketplace? [Huffington Post]

Bob Hepple dead: Legendary human rights lawyer dies aged 81 [The Mirror]

Home Office presses ahead with Afghan deportations as country unravels [Politics.co.uk]

Brian May threatens legal action over badger culls [ITV News]

“My wife thinks I’m crazy”: Lawyer and former Apprentice star buys his own fire truck and battles Washington State wildfires with just four hours training [Mail Online]

Australian woman wrongfully jailed for a decade wins £1m in damages [The Telegraph]

“There is a wider point about well-stocked and spacious law libraries; they are effectively a public good, not just a private good for the lawyers involved, and their value is easy to understate.” [Legal Cheek Comments]