The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Law Society takes action over cuts to legal aid fees [The Guardian]
Sadiq Khan launches John Worboys judicial review bid [BBC News]
Presidents Club: Thousands sign petition to reinstate workplace sexual harassment law repealed in 2013 [Independent]
UK could get more child refugees after legal battle [Metro]
Doctor whose mistakes cost life of six-year-old struck off after High Court challenge [The Telegraph]
Presidents Club latest: BLP, Kingsley Napley and Fried Frank lawyers named on exclusive guest list [Legal Cheek]
BSB to consider whether chambers need ‘work allocation officers’ to ensure equality [Legal Futures]
EU court: Asylum seekers must not be forced to take ‘gay tests’ [BBC News]
Facebook escapes Austria class action but still faces grilling [Financial Times]
Man in court accused of hate crime over ‘batter gypos’ Facebook post [Grimsby Telegraph]
Leeds student event: Technology and the future of legal practice — with Womble Bond Dickinson [Legal Cheek Hub]
“Given the number of people who claim not to have seen anything and to have left early the event sounds as though it must have been fairly quiet…” [Legal Cheek comments]
