The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Tory ministers hit back at ‘sleaze’ spreadsheet and seek legal advice [Independent]
Too many children in criminal court, says senior judge [The Telegraph]
Lords warn pension changes are deterring new judges [Financial Times]
45 Deliveroo riders are taking legal action against the company over their employment status [Business Insider]
Criminal solicitor battling addiction died after taking ‘cocktail of drugs’ [Devon Live]
Guantánamo tribunals face chaos as top defence lawyer punished for contempt [The Guardian]
Trump’s lawyers say calling women liars over sexual harassment was politics [Bloomberg]
Catalonia president Carles Puigdemont will ignore Spanish court order to answer rebellion charges [Independent]
Why the law against female genital mutilation should be scrapped [The Conversation]
Lawyer, 23, who married his 91-year-old great-aunt in Argentina and claimed to ‘love her in the purest way you can’ says he will take legal action after he is denied widower’s pension [Mail Online]
Key graduate recruitment deadlines calendar [Legal Cheek Careers]
“I studied Law part time as an afterthought (many) years after doing an electrical engineering degree as a full time student. Not sure I’d recommend either but at least engineering does give you a certain degree of choice and chance.” [Legal Cheek comments]
