The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Old Bailey’s first non-white judge was mistaken for defendant [BBC News]
Judge rules ‘paedophile hunters’ can continue posing as children online [The Guardian]
David Gest’s family vows to fight over will after lawyer inherits most of £10million fortune [The Mirror]
A lawyer-turned-campaigner’s life story shows why he’s blowing up the internet [The Canary]
How tobacco firms flout UK law on plain packaging [The Guardian]
Man accused of murder banned from own trial after punching lawyer [Metro]
Fee setback adds to lord chancellor’s woes [Law Society Gazette]
The Conservative pipeline to the Supreme Court [The New Yorker]
Event this evening — Is it OK to talk about race? [NOTICED]
How to keep clients [Future of Law Blog]
Future trainee sought to join international law firm as a paralegal on a 12 month FTC [Legal Cheek Hub]
“So clearly people who earn upwards of £40,000 a year have to house share in London. What a farce. We’re all doomed.” [Legal Cheek Comments]