The top legal affairs news stories from the long weekend
Striking barristers to meet new Justice Secretary [Independent]
Policing anti-monarchy protestors properly ‘not a hard job’, insists barrister behind blank-placard experiment [LBC News]
Santander hired law firm to investigate bankers’ strip club trip [Financial Times]
What did the public really think about lockdown law? [Prospect Magazine]
Greenpeace takes legal action over EU’s ‘green’ label for gas and nuclear [Reuters]
Veteran, lawyer and teacher among nearly 200 recipients of Queen’s Birthday Honours to be invited to state funeral [Sky News]
King Charles III set to change law to stop non-working royals from acting as official stand-in [iNews]
Truss plan to axe sugar tax runs into legal and parliamentary hitches [The Guardian]
The lawless world of crypto scams [Financial Times]
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