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Morning Round-Up: Monday 21 January

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Threat to the courts system as barristers google jurors then alter speeches to win sympathy [The Times (£)]

Barristers google jurors to find out their likes, jobs and interests then tailor courtroom speeches to help win trials [Mail Online]

Business leaders have grown ‘diversity weary’ [Law Society Gazette]

Judge reminisces about his Cambridge days in punt dispute [Buxton Advertiser]

Tomorrow’s Lawyers: access to justice in the online future – extract [The Guardian]

Barrister: “You have to play New Order; you have to take back what is rightfully yours” [Evening Standard]

US law school to become UK-style two year course? [National Law Journal]

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