The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
Criminal courts risk crisis as barristers lured away by huge corporate pay [The Telegraph] (£)
British barrister advised Bangladesh regime on gagging journalists [The Times] (£)
Prince Harry versus newspapers: This is the one that matters [BBC News]
TikTok is restoring service, thanks Trump [Reuters]
Clean water campaigners claim victory in Windermere sewage case [The Guardian]
Court allows JLL to manage Evergrande-linked luxury London flats [Financial Times] (£)
The world’s richest lawyer worth an incredible £1.6bn – 40 times richer than Amal Clooney [Express]
Two judges shot dead in Iran’s supreme court building [The Guardian]
“Very sad case. When I was a pupil we were positively encouraged to look at other practitioner’s work as precedents when formulating skeleton arguments as part
of the learning process…” [Legal Cheek comments]
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