The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
Raising salaries may be rational, but law firm leaders need to show longer-term vision too [Financial Times] (£)
Pressure grows on UK ministers to outlaw ‘no jab, no job’ policies [The Guardian]
Anti-5G campaigners vow to fight on after legal setback [BBC News]
Channel migrants will be barred from making spurious legal claims [The Telegraph]
UK ‘first in line’ to own Mars land as leading space lawyer ‘validates’ 12-year claim [Express]
Ex-barrister lost his job as a volunteer counsellor with the charity after raising fears over the way children confused about their gender are rushed into changing sex [Mail Online]
Councils send out more than 2,500 court summonses in error [BBC News]
Sexual violence allegations brought by disabled women ‘not going to court’, charity says [Sky News]
Credit Suisse prepares legal action against Archegos [Financial Times] (£)
High court hears opening salvos in libel case brought by Roman Abramovich [The Guardian]
“Correct. The problem is that the BPTC/BTC providers vastly oversupply prospective pupils. The profession has been pointing this out for years; when ICSL had a monopoly on the Bar course it trained broadly enough people that you’d have a good shot of getting pupillage once you’d done it.” [Legal Cheek comments]
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