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End Of The Day Round-Up

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Man crushed by a falling William Hill shop sign in Camden was a lawyer with Minter Ellison [Evening Standard]

"There goes my knighthood": District Judge pays thief's £1 debt from his own pocket in protest against compensation rules [Mail Online]

Cobbetts' administration: full coverage [Google]

SRA "doesn't have responsibility for trainees" at Cobbetts [Lawyer2B]

Bob Dylan and Michael Jackson's pioneering lawyer dead at 81 [Female First]

Devil's Advocate Giovanni di Stefano was "not a lawyer at all", court hears [The Independent]

Judge rejects Apple demand for MORE money from arch-rival Samsung in $1bn patent war [Mail Online]

Morning Round-Up: Wednesday 30 January

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Lawyers for 9/11 suspects ask to be locked up at Guantánamo for two nights in order to understand conditions in which accused are held [The Guardian]

Hugh Bonneville lined up to play barrister with Tourette's Syndrome in new film [The Mirror]

Judge says £420,000 racism claim can stand, after 13 years of 'Dickensian' wrangling [The Telegraph]

First woman to be put to death in two years receives last minute stay of execution as judge postpones her lethal injection by 60-days [Mail Online]

The Cab Rank Rule – what is it good for? (absolutely nothing?) [NotABarrister]

Grandson of law lord appointed deputy leader of North Norfolk District Council at age 22 [EDP24]

End Of The Day Round-Up

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"QC says you can't say what was going on in man's mind when he cut his mum's head off. Get away!" [Court News on Twitter]

Continuing reaction to the news that former Dawson Creek star Katie Holmes is apparently becoming a lawyer [Bros At The Bar]

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Huhne trial reporting restrictions will be lifted [Guido Fawkes]

Thief really spoils his lawyers by giving them 5 (stolen) boxes of Ferrero Rocher [Daily Record]

The trial of the lawyer who died three years ago [Foreign Policy]

Court of Appeal declares criminal records regime incompatible with Article 8 [Panopticon]

Tomorrow's Lawyers: a virtual judiciary – extract [The Guardian]

Defendant 'could become paralegal' after getting so much experience during trial for her two-year-old daughter’s murder [Mail Online]

Morning Round-Up: Tuesday 29 January

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Lawyers in Glasgow and Edinburgh threaten split from Law Society of Scotland in legal aid row [The Herald]

Lawyer claims he was victim of honey-trap after "paralegal from other side bought him drinks and asked him to move her car" [Mail Online]

Legal bid to find who posted Facebook threats against Catholic [BBC News]

Cab rank rules or bar room brawls? [Lawyer Watch]

A trickle not a flood… [Pink Tape]

Mark Duggan inquest could be shown live over the internet [The Guardian]

No point attending Guantánamo terror trial, says accused 9/11 plotter [The Guardian]

Accused silk points finger at 39 Essex Street over VAT fraud charge [The Lawyer]

End Of The Day Round-Up

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Secret court bill 'threatens centuries of open justice and will erode Britain's moral standing in the world' [Mail Online]

The secret courts bill won’t enhance justice or make us more secure [The Spectator]

How does the British Constitution work? [Reddit]

Lawyer reveals truth of 'royal assent' Cabinet tried to block [This Is Cornwall]

Citizenship test quiz [Home Office]

Trainee solicitor fined after dog is found roaming Brierfield without ID tag [Lancashire Telegraph]

Mischon de Reya solicitor jailed for Swiss bank fraud has sentence cut [Get Surrey]

Pinsent Mason's move to boost confidence in the property market [Belfast Telegraph]

Morning Round-Up: Monday 28 January

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Robert Jay QC’s comments on the liability of internet service providers (ISPs) are startling [Inforrm]

Google facing legal battle from British internet users who complain firm has breached their privacy [Mail Online]

Google, privacy and a new kind of lawsuit [Paul Bernal's Blog]

Lance Armstrong seeks legal route to comeback [The Times]

46 women feature in The Lawyer 'Hot 100' [The Lawyer]

Royal interference, CourtTube and religious freedom – the Human Rights Roundup [UK Human Rights Blog]

Morning Round-Up: Thursday 24 January

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Cambridge law student: Julian Assange should not be given a voice by the Oxford Union [The Independent]

A QC's reply to Chris Grayling [Mark Harries on Twitter]

Selfridges Faces legal action over selling raw milk; court case will also see farmer prosecuted [Huffington Post UK]

Judge blasts 'sexist laws' that left woman destitute after split from partner: She lost her home when 30-year relationship ended [Mail Online]

Recorder removed for "bringing judiciary into disrepute" [The Lawyer]

Career alternatives for lawyers: lego brick artist [Bloomberg Law via YouTube]