Morning round-up: Wednesday 7 January

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By Thomas Connelly on

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts

newspapers4US lawyer takes legal action in Prince Andrew sex claim case [BBC News]

Innocent or guilty, if you’re accused of rape then you should not be granted anonymity [The Independent]

Clifford Chance partner threatens legal action against “closed shop” of English professional rugby [The Telegraph]

The legal issues in the Ched Evans case [BBC News]

Amal Clooney disputes Egypt arrest warning story [The Telegraph]

Increasing profits is the biggest challenge of 2015, say 55% of UK lawyers [The Lawyer]

Mark Pritchard MP calls for rape anonymity to be reviewed after “vindicative and outrageous” allegation against him [The Independent]

Belgian rapist Van Den Bleeken refused “right to die” by European Court of Human Rights [BBC News]

Acting Premier League chairman says solicitors need to be multi-skilled [Yorkshire Post]

To mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta we are holding a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition at the British Library [British Library]

Commercial property legal assistant/paralegal at well established Somerset based law firm [Legal Cheek Jobs]

Heard in court [Facebook]

“What really needs to change is the deluded attitude of the students/graduates who believe that even having attended a poor or mediocre University that they have a god given right to a training contract.” [Legal Cheek Comments]