The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Apple employs Freshfields to help fight its legal war with EU over €13bn tax bill [Irish Independent]
Uber wins right to legal challenge over TfL English test for drivers [Evening Standard]
Melania Trump proceeds with Daily Mail lawsuit [Financial Times]
Look away, legal eagles: Revenue and staff numbers slipped at the UK’s 100 largest law firms in 2016 [City A.M.]
‘Dick… err I mean Dirk!’ [Twitter]
Clerk calls defendant named Dirk 'Dick' for the fourth time. Very disgruntled looking man in the dock.
— CourtNewsUK (@CourtNewsUK) September 1, 2016
Lawyer jailed after he was convicted of attempting to pervert the course of justice [News North Wales]
Death row British gran Linda Carty loses latest appeal against execution [Mirror]
Turkey coup attempt: 543 more court officials sacked [BBC News]
Trump campaign sued by kids dance troupe over broken deal [Bloomberg]
Event: Brexit and the future: how global law firms deal with political uncertainty — with Norton Rose Fulbright [Legal Cheek Hub]
“And 52% of the UK doesn’t understand economics” [Legal Cheek comments]