Freshfields to remove criminal record box from applications [Law Society Gazette]
West Brom won’t give Anelka legal help to fight FA charge over “quenelle” gesture [Mail Online]
Lord Rennard: injustice all round [Head of Legal]
Solicitor’s stab wounds may have been self-inflicted, coroner hears [The Northern Echo]
Hacking trial QC’s “This is not Carry On Policing, is it?” quip [Evening Standard]
Herbert Smith Freehills advocacy chief Murray Rosen quits in order to return to the Bar [The Lawyer]
Lawyer “made himself the beneficiary of vulnerable clients’ wills in plan to steal £210,000 from their estates” [Mail Online]
Sikh lawyer’s turban was “kicked off his head as he was beaten to the ground in a racist attack in City of London” [Mail Online]
Open justice [Learned Friend]
