The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Lady Hale: courts and judiciary should reflect diversity of UK [The Guardian]
First video courts to be used in the UK within weeks [The Telegraph]
Lawyers and bankers asked by UK MPs to detail relationship with Carillion [Financial Times]
UKIP in financial disaster as it faces £200,000 legal bill [Mirror]
Spotify entrepreneur loses legal battle to stop brother sending emails about his past [The Telegraph]
Cry freedom: SRA wants to become separate legal entity from Law Society [Legal Futures]
New Zealand legal profession shocked by sexual harassment scandal [The Guardian]
German lawyer cheesed off with endless pizza deliveries [BBC News]
I’ve been to Mars and it’s full of alien bodies claims lawyer in bid to be US President [Express]
Legal research assistant to Philip Rainey QC and Michael Walsh [Legal Cheek Hub]
“I went to a state school, but even I think this diversity push is now becoming a joke.” [Legal Cheek comments]
