The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
IMF chief Lagarde to stand negligence trial in France [BBC News]
The Sun uses Human Rights Act, which it hates, to win case against Metropolitan Police over phone intercepts [Huffington Post]
Slater & Gordon shares fall after law firm pulls earnings guidance [The Guardian]
British marriage laws are “hopelessly out of date”, government told [The Telegraph]
Joshua Rozenberg: UK marriage law is out of step with the times [The Guardian]
#LawStudentProblems [Twitter]
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Japan upholds a century-old law that requires spouses to take the same surname [Time]
British Government threatened with legal action to stop it exporting weapons to the Saudi Arabian regime [The Independent]
Technology in the legal sector: How IT can help lawyers provide gold-plated service at bronze level prices [City A.M.]
Apply now: King & Wood Mallesons spring and summer vacation schemes [Legal Cheek Hub]
“We have a similar system here. People are randomly given a colour (by accident of birth) and ‘whether they are searched depends on the colour they are allocated’. Simples!” [Legal Cheek Comments]