The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
My brother got 19 years’ jail on a joint enterprise conviction. Now we want him home [The Guardian]
MPs call for probe into Cherie Blair’s law firm and HSBC over alleged money laundering after Mail revelations [Mail Online]
Nigel Knowles announces retirement from DLA Piper [The Lawyer]
The tables have turned on a US-based hoverboard maker that sued a Chinese competitor for patent infringement [BBC News]
The wheels of justice grind slow — especially in southern Europe [The Economist]
George Clooney wants to grow old and grey in England with glamorous lawyer wife Amal [The Mirror]
Christian couple sentenced to death for sending ‘blasphemous’ texts to an Islamic cleric in Pakistan say they were tortured into confessing to the crime [Mail Online]
Sadiq Khan: I represented ‘unsavoury individuals’ when I was a human rights lawyer [Evening Standard]
Germany bestiality law: challenge to ban on sex with animals thrown out of court [International Business Times]
Applications for Littleton Chambers’ mini-pupillage are currently being accepted [Legal Cheek Hub]
“How — if at all — does this outcome affect those cases in which a person dies at the hands of a group but the evidence can’t reveal which member of the group inflicted the fatal stab wound, kick, blow etc? Might murder charges be impossible in those circumstances?” [Legal Cheek Comments]