The top legal affairs news stories from the coronation weekend 👑
Laws limiting protest must be repealed, campaigner says after coronation arrest [Evening Standard]
Government’s £4m legal bill for post-Brexit bonfire of EU laws [Independent]
City law firm tells junior partners to cough up £20,000-£42,000 each [City A.M.]
Brexiters’ dream of divergence from EU laws risks backfiring [Financial Times] (£)
Aberdeen lawyers join Glasgow and Edinburgh in boycott of juryless rape trials pilot [Sky News]
Ed Sheeran’s court victory reveals the paradox of putting creativity on trial [The Guardian]
Microsoft hires EU-beating lawyer to revive blocked mega-merger [The Telegraph] (£)
Merseyside defies odds and will finally achieve his dream of becoming a barrister [Liverpool Echo]
Number of Russians using London Commercial Court reaches new record despite sanctions [City A.M.]
High court rejects claim UK government ‘secretly’ ditched animal testing ban [The Guardian]
I’m the barrister who saved Anthony Joshua’s boxing career – he thanked me with Klitschko tickets but I turned him down [The Sun]
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