Morning round-up: Friday 12 January

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The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Ireland angles to pick up post-Brexit legal business [Financial Times]

Victims urge CPS to bring fresh charges against black cab rapist John Worboys [Sky News]

Same sex spouses have same residency rights as straight couples, says EU judge [The Telegraph]

Fabric lawyer Philip Kolvin QC quits as chairman of the Night Time Commission [Resident Advisor]

The latest comments from across Legal Cheek

Why BuzzFeed could be in for a hard fight against Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s libel suit [Washington Post]

New app creates legally binding contracts for consensual sex [Independent]

Judge receives jury summons to her own court [Chron]

Technology: Disrupting the law and lawyers with Travers Smith [Legal Cheek Hub]

“Employers should never knowingly set their employees unmanageable targets. Never. No exceptions. Anyone who knowingly does so is not fit to manage other people, and they should be stripped of that responsibility.” [Legal Cheek comments]

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