The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Secret court case application numbers more than double in a year [The Guardian]
Laws rushed through in the wake of the Leveson Inquiry pose the biggest threat to press freedom in modern times [Mail Online]
Wikileaks Julian Assange refused safe passage for MRI scan [The Telegraph]
A Bridge too far as card games bid to become a sport is rejected [The Express]
“Don’t interfere”: Chinese ambassador warns UK not to raise human rights when Xi Jinping visits [South China Morning Post]
D-day for criminal legal aid — as it happened [Law Society Gazette]
Operation Elveden: how Murdoch, the CPS and the police got it so wrong [The Guardian]
UK schoolgirl given non-custodial sentence after admitting terror offences [The Guardian]
Oscar Pistorius “to be released from prison and placed on house arrest next week” [Evening Standard]
Italian court directs employer to allow worker to watch porn during lunch hours [The News Minute]
Applications being accepted for King & Wood Mallesons’ open days [Legal Cheek Hub]
“Often the best advocates are those who get the heart of a matter quickly, and confidently, remaining on the right side of deference whilst politely but firmly fighting their client’s corner despite any resistance from the bench.” [Legal Cheek Comments]