The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Oasis singer Liam Gallagher arrives with celebrity divorce lawyer Fiona Shackleton for court battle over money with ex-wife Nicole Appleton [Mail Online]
Simpson & Marwick announces merger with Clyde & Co [BBC News]
Nestle has failed to convince European judges that it has the right to trademark the shape of its four-finger KitKat bar in the UK [BBC News]
Lawyers at war: Top barristers up in arms over plans to build “iceberg basement” and rip out library shelves in medieval headquarters of the legal world [Mail Online]
Soaring civil court fees price small businesses and people on low incomes out of justice [The Independent]
Cherie Blair launches “sanctions attack” on Amal Clooney in Maldives showdown [The Telegraph]
Pinsent Masons partner dies at 47 [Law Society Gazette]
The privy council has no place in our democracy. Corbyn must challenge it [The Guardian]
Sniper of Nuremberg case: German lawyer “shot at cars out of his apartment window” [The Telegraph]
Russian Mafia boss caught on camera having sex with “human rights lawyer” in jail cell [The Mirror]
Paralegal required by Norton Rose Fulbright for its corporate advisory team [Legal Cheek Jobs]
“Has she committed a necessary evil here? If she hadn’t named/shamed that old fella, there would be no fear. No fear may mean nothing changes?” [Legal Cheek Comments]