The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Top lawyer says Britain owes just £1billion to EU for exit bill despite Eurocrats’ grandstanding [The Sun]
Alabama executes man on eighth attempt during 35-year legal battle [The Guardian]
Paedophiles can be banned from using Snapchat, judge rules [The Telegraph]
Here’s all the evidence you didn’t see in The Trial [Radio Times]
Former government solicitor banned for backdating court document [Law Gazette]
Celebrity lawyer kidnapped in broad daylight and only freed — badly injured — when his family paid ransom [Mirror]
Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner ‘now a focus in Russia investigation’ [Independent]
Apply to attend: The Legal Cheek and Shearman & Sterling General Election debate [Legal Cheek Hub]
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