The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
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Rishi Sunak urged to close legal loophole on deepfake pornography [Independent]
Taxpayer spends £4m on Government lawyers’ home working equipment [Telegraph] (£)
‘Mass surveillance’ fears over law change plans [BBC News]
Shamima Begum’s lawyer fined after posting series of hateful and ‘abusive’ tweets [The Sun]
Preston men jailed for trainee barrister’s one-punch death [BBC News]
Law change to increase organ donations actually led to FEWER patients receiving transplants [Mail Online]
Parents in legal action against clinic’s gender treatment regime [The Times] (£)
Scotland’s law chief urged to consider plan to quash bad postmaster convictions ‘overnight’ [Daily Record]
Hong Kong official warns online criticism could breach new national security law [The Guardian]
‘Friendly Leicester’ turn after being bitten by the law — but they agreed to all this [The Telegraph] (£)
Lawyers issued warning over Steve Barclay incinerator decision [BBC News]
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