Morning round-up: Tuesday 1 July

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By Thomas Connelly on

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.

newspapers3Rolf Harris found guilty of 12 indecent assaults [Evening Standard]

How Rolf’s bullying lawyers cited Leveson inquiry to hide his arrest for four months and nearly jeopardised his conviction [Mail Online]

Andy Coulson and Clive Goodman to face retrial over bribery plot charges [The Independent]

Oscar Pistorius was not suffering from mental illness when he shot dead girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, psychiatric tests conclude as murder trial resumes [Mail Online]

Strange start to the week outside the Old Bailey [Twitter]

Judge who ‘punched’ defence solicitor after heated confrontation returns to court [The Mirror]

London, after two years [Above the Law]

Legal aid child residence tests breach international rights, say MPs and peers [The Guardian]

Flexible working extended to all employees in UK [The Guardian]

Legal journalism work experience with Legal Cheek [Legal Cheek]

Heard in court [Facebook]

“Paralegals are to solicitors what solicitors are to barristers” [Legal Cheek Comments]