The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Oxford educated Freshfields lawyer was shot dead with a sawn-off shotgun outside a Berlin bar by a German neo-Nazi in a cowboy hat who ‘hated foreigners’, inquest hears [Mail Online]
Two-year-old girl gives evidence in UK abuse case [The Guardian]
Asda equal pay case: The landmark legal battle that could stop women in the UK being paid less than men [Independent]
Torture survivors were wrongly imprisoned, High Court rules [Huffington Post]
Condom-detecting fingerprint test ‘to be used in court’ [BBC News]
Harvey Weinstein could face serious legal trouble over sexual assault allegations [BuzzFeed News]
Law student receives brutal beatdown before being robbed [Above The Law]
Insurtech Jargon 101: What does it all mean? [Trainees Take on Business Blog]
Bristol student event: Infrastructure: the next growth area for lawyers — with Burges Salmon [Legal Cheek Hub]
“Excellent. Lots of taxpayer money for some nice swanky new courts for economic crime, fraud, chancery and commercial stuff. Rather less taxpayer money for a functioning court system to deal with all the less commercially exciting stuff. And as little taxpayer money for a basic legal aid system…” [Legal Cheek comments]