The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Trump on torture laws: I want to expand them [Politico]
Prisoners have been handed a massive £9million in taxpayers’ cash in compensation claims for accidents that happen behind bars [Mail Online]
A UK conflict tribunal would end the current legal mess [The Guardian]
Lawyers get £246m from NHS in a year for medical blunders [The Mirror]
Justice secretary Michael Gove warns EU risks making it harder to identify terrorists and accuses Brussels of fuelling “Hitler worshippers” [The Independent]
Disgraced former judge Constance Briscoe caught speeding in her BMW sports car [The Telegraph]
Jon Robins: Outraged by the £400,000 given to Becky Watts’ killers in legal aid? You shouldn’t be [The Independent]
Amal Clooney has been sent death threats after representing jailed Maldivian president [Metro]
Home Office plays the long — and costly — game to deport 70-year-old widow [Al’s Law]
How to become a Law Lord: Baroness Hale is speaking at City Law School on Tuesday 15 March. Sign up to attend here [City University]
Last few places for ‘Commercial Awareness Question Time — with Hardwicke and RPC’ [Legal Cheek Hub]
“The great irony is that the plum corporate jobs these students ultimately long for are the modern equivalent of plantation-owning. The only difference is that the (very real) slaves of finance capitalism are kept far away from the air-conditioned offices of the Harvard elite.” [Legal Cheek Comments]