Morning round-up: Friday 22 April

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By Legal Cheek Reporter on

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

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Asylum and immigration court fees set to rise by over 500% [The Guardian]

Barack Obama: As your friend, let me say that the EU makes Britain even greater [The Telegraph]

Britain’s top human rights lawyer who represented Julian Assange and worked alongside George Clooney’s wife Amal dies in apparent suicide [The Sun]

Ched Evans has rape conviction quashed by Court of Appeal but will face a retrial [Evening Standard]

Celebrity injunction case: Supreme Court delays decision [BBC News]

The Sun’s celebrity threesome injunction: The triumph of power over the law [International Business Times]

Breivik survivor says killer should not be denied his human rights [BBC News]

Surviving your corporate headshot [The Lawyer]

Lunch with Judge Rinder [Legal Hackette]

Newly Qualified Property Solicitor sought to join London law firm [Legal Cheek Hub]

“How about policies/process that impact the thousands of staff at the firms mentioned in this article who are not even lawyers and whose demographic usually has a higher proportion of women to men?” [Legal Cheek Comments]