Morning Round-Up: Friday 21 December

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By Legal Cheek on

Julian Assange: “democracy is the sum of our resistance” [Head of Legal]

‘Julian Assange’s speech, as it sounded in the street outside taxis, hecklers and all. (It gets better after a minute)’ [Sound Cloud via Carl Gardner]

How the UK Border Agency nearly blew Robin Hood Airport “sky high” – a calamity at the “Twitter Joke Trial” airport of which you will not have heard [New Statesman]

5 people guaranteed to be at your office party [Bitter Lawyer]

MoD pays out millions to Iraqi torture victims [The Guardian]

How gossip transformed the legal industry [Details]