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Morning round-up: Friday 24 January

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The morning’s top legal news stories.

justin_bieber_mugshot_0Justin Bieber on Miami drink-drive charge after “road racing” [BBC News]

Meet the lawyer who is representing Justin Bieber [Mail Online]

Lawyers seek re-trial of boy executed for murder 70 years ago [Yorkshire Post]

Judges to be asked to decide whether murderers can continue to be sentenced to life imprisonment without any prospect of ever being released [The Guardian]

Judge leaked details of Huhne/Pryce investigation to press, court hears [Evening Standard]

Courtney Love has taken to the stand in the first ever case of an alleged libel on Twitter going to trial [Mail Online]

Porn scandal at Bristol university: UWE says it will take legal action [Bristol Post]

City firms mull new graduate recruitment methods [The Lawyer]

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