Morning round-up: Wednesday 31 May

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By Legal Cheek Reporter on

The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Lawyers warn May against scrapping Serious Fraud Office [Financial Times]

UK wrong to deny residency rights in test case, EU’s legal adviser says [The Guardian]

Lawyer ‘stalked by ex-she met on dating app Happn who camped outside her office with beer cans’ [The Sun]

England: Planned night courts prompt anger from women barristers [Scottish Legal News]

Dick Turpin’s conduct before execution praised by judge in court ruling [Aberdeen Evening Express]

China’s cyber security law rattles multinationals [Financial Times]

Russia inquiry expands to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen [BBC News]

Facebook claims Germany’s new law to tackle fake news will cause tech companies to delete legal content [Independent]

Apply to attend: Commercial Awareness Question Time: Inside the acquisition of Visa Europe — with Macfarlanes [Legal Cheek Hub]

“Such a bad question to give in an EU paper. Full of speculation and hypotheticals and hardly anything tangible involved which they learnt in class.” [Legal Cheek comments]

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