The top legal affairs news stories from the New Year period
This year, lawyers need to learn their place [spiked]
Unions expected to take legal action against Rishi Sunak’s anti-strike laws [The Guardian]
All the new laws coming in 2023 that will affect workers, landlords, voters and more [Mirror]
Bonfire of EU laws is now ‘unlikely to take place in 2023’: Government’s pledge to remove up to 4,000 pieces of Brussels-linked legislation faces ‘a three-year delay’ [Daily Mail]
‘Overwhelmed’ justice system failing victims of crime, CPS chief warns [The Independent]
British voters want foreign human rights court to stop interfering with UK laws [Express]
Female voters want the legal ‘right to know’ what their male colleagues are paid [The Telegraph] (free, but registration required)
London law firms face a reckoning in 2023 after this year’s ‘pay scale mess’ [Bloomberg] (free, but registration required)
Will OpenAI’s ChatGPT change law firm SEO? [Forbes]
The raw truth about legal crowdfunding [The Critic]
Ukraine war: Putin should face trial this year, says top lawyer [BBC]
Jimmy Lai won’t get his lawyer: Beijing says Hong Kong can deny foreign lawyers for the first time [Wall Street Journal]
Amber Heard’s avengers: her team in Britain fight back against online hatred [The Times] (£)
U.S. News & World Report, facing backlash, revamps its law school rankings [Reuters]
BAD JUDGE-MENT: Judge who conducted court case on phone while driving ticked off for bad behaviour [The Sun]
12 New Year’s resolutions for aspiring lawyers [Legal Cheek]
“The biggest lie of law school surfaces again: reading cases. Why waste your precious time reading hundreds of pages of cases when there are perfectly good summaries available online and in textbooks, written by professors and/or top students?” [Legal Cheek comments]
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