Morning round-up: Thursday 26 May

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By Legal Cheek Reporter on

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

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Julian Assange: Swedish court upholds arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder after ‘arbitrary detention’ finding [The Independent]

Tory MP accuses Osborne of ‘planning to break law’ over EU referendum [The Guardian]

Couple who cut wealthy neighbour’s grass verge for 12 years given land in ‘squatters’ rights’ ruling [The Telegraph]

Azerbaijan court frees journalist backed by Amal Clooney [BBC News]

Kanye West sued by Hungarian over song sample [Yahoo News]

Mum cleared of killing two-year-old daughter ‘paid her lawyer with sex’ [Mirror]

Judge denies Gawker’s motion for a new trial in the Hulk Hogan sex-video case and won’t reduce the whopping $140 million verdict [Mail Online]

Applications are currently being accepted for mini-pupillage at Devereux Chambers [Legal Cheek Hub]

“Well done. I think the question everyone is dying to ask is which textbook was it?” [Legal Cheek comments]