The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Boris Johnson called out by statistics boss on ‘£350 million for the NHS’ claim [Twitter]
Charlie Falconer: Will the Lord Chancellor condemn Amber Rudd for her failure to comply with two court orders to return Samim Bigzad to UK? [Twitter]
Schools break law on religious education, research suggests [BBC News]
CMS has announced its long-awaited retention rate, keeps 43 NQs [Legal Cheek]
UK legal claims grow over exposure at work to toxic diesel fumes [The Guardian]
The curious rise of Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met Team Trump [CNN]
Tributes paid to “unconventional” St Albans judge [Hertfordshire Mercury]
AI can make justice truly blind — but not just yet [TNW]
Joshua Rozenberg: Does Facebook prejudice juries? [Facebook]
Woman thrown out of court for asking judge why he wasn’t wearing a wig [Huddersfield Examiner]
Reed Smith is still recruiting campus ambassadors for Birmingham and Cambridge Universities [Legal Cheek Hub]
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