The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
‘This is my job’: Amal Clooney fights back tears speaking about risking her life to take on ISIS and how George feels about her dangerous new case [Mail Online]
Jeremy Hunt acted illegally over junior doctors, court hears [The Guardian]
CEOs can now be tried under international law at The Hague for environmental crimes [The Independent]
Tut-tut [Twitter]
Reporter sees barrister walk out of toilets without washing hands. What manners do they teach in law school these days?
— CourtNewsUK (@CourtNewsUK) September 19, 2016
Leading law firm to represent man who had windscreen smashed by police [ITV News]
MI5 lawyer to be grilled by MPs over UK’s role in Guantanamo ‘torture’ [RT]
Slater & Gordon plans to sue Watchstone Group [Australasian Lawyer]
Hammersmith Magistrates’ Court to close under Ministry of Justice proposals [GetWestLondon]
Michael Schumacher ‘cannot walk’, a court is told by family lawyer [Sky Sports News]
Free event: presentation by Shearman & Sterling at the University of St Andrew’s [Legal Cheek Hub]
“I always thought Darcy was based on Keir Starmer?” [Legal Cheek comments]