The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Fitness-to-plead court test out of date, says Law Commission [BBC News]
CPS lacks empathy with crime victims and witnesses, report finds [The Guardian]
Chinese officials have held a Swedish human rights worker for over a week, and won’t let his government visit him [Quartz]
The G4S-run Medway youth jail must be closed [The Guardian]
Mia talks about her “Borders” video, and why she’s getting legal threats for a football shirt [Noisey]
Sian Blake murder suspect appears in court in Ghana [The Guardian]
Refugees in Denmark face seizure of valuables [Financial Times]
PC David Rathband’s family go to High Court [Sky News]
Poland’s controversial new media law could get it booted off Eurovision [Washington Post]
‘Making a Murderer’ top defense lawyer explains what his life has been like since the show exploded and made him internet famous [Business Insider]
Training contract applications now being accepted at Bond Dickinson [Legal Cheek Hub]
“What rubbish. Guaranteed earnings are incredibly common. In this case, if a pupil doesn’t receive £3,300 (net of VAT) in any given month then chambers will give top-up the difference. It isn’t ‘guaranteed billings’ (for obvious reasons that would create cashflow problems), it means actual cash in the bank…” [Legal Cheek Comments]