The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
City law firms brace for pay and job cuts [The Times] (£)
Lesbian couple drop NHS fertility treatment legal challenge [BBC News]
Female Afghan judge wins legal battle to come to UK [The Guardian]
Cabinet Office spent £180,000 of taxpayer cash to keep Mountbatten’s diaries secret [The Telegraph]
Unilever to comply with Russian conscription law if staff called up [Mirror]
Gove to relax planning laws in England to allow more shops to be converted into homes [The Guardian]
Black lesbian Harvard law grad is CENSORED by blogging site Medium for ‘hateful’ post saying transgender women should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports [Mail Online]
Dublin man who made 12 injury claims tells judge to f**k off after being caught lying [Sunday World]
Matty Healy: Malaysia festival cancelled after The 1975 singer attacks anti-LGBT law [BBC News]
“If I was the groom, I would call off the wedding now and save years of pain” [Legal Cheek comments]
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