The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Supreme court rules UK system for deporting foreign criminals unlawful [The Guardian]
Council ‘threatened blogger with legal action’ over Grenfell Tower warnings [Metro]
I battled to stop it happening again… no one listened: Solicitor who represented bereaved families after the 2009 Camberwell fire on how this tragedy should have been prevented [Mail Online]
Remains of Quindell hit with £637m legal claim over law division sale [The Telegraph]
Fake law firm fined for unlawfully obtaining personal information [The Global Legal Post]
Former Barclays lawyer named U.K. Treasury’s Economic Secretary [Bloomberg Politics]
Money Diary: 22-year-old student on 6k living in Sheffield [Refinery 29]
How good was your GDL? Take the Legal Cheek 60 second survey [Legal Cheek]
Apply at attend: Commercial Awareness Question Time: Inside the acquisition of Visa Europe — with Macfarlanes [Legal Cheek Hub]
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