The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
“Going into legal aid work now is career suicide” [The Guardian]
Barack Obama takes action over US gun laws [BBC News]
Britain’s leading human rights law firm is facing a disciplinary inquiry over the shredding of a document which could have halted a £31m inquiry into false allegations of murder and torture by British troops [The Telegraph]
Joshua Rozenberg: The Lord Janner case is dogged by the CPS’s confusion [The Guardian]
Tories slammed for “appalling” decision to push through crucial housing law at 3am [The Mirror]
Government declares war on soft justice by allowing more barristers to challenge lenient sentences [The Telegraph]
Foreign Office minister claims it’s better to work with Saudi Arabia “privately” to encourage reform rather than criticise the kingdom’s human rights record “from the sidelines” [The Independent]
Parliament will debate banning Donald Trump from the UK [BuzzFeed]
A law professor tricked his students into lying, which shows why you should never talk to police [Business Insider]
The application deadline for Norton Rose Fulbright’s summer vac scheme is this Friday [Legal Cheek Hub]
“Once I was watching and I don’t think Lord Neuberger knew the camera was on and he was singing a little tune to himself, I think Tove Lo’s ‘Stay High’.” [Legal Cheek Comments]