The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Solicitor in wife murder bid to be struck off [BBC News]
Government plans to curb air pollution so inadequate they are unlawful, High Court rules [Independent]
Qatari developer could bring legal action against Carillion [The Telegraph]
Lawyer who returned from a three-month holiday to India to find his wife had divorced him and married another man calls for judge to scrap ruling [Mail Online]
Melania Trump’s parents legally in US, lawyer says, as questions swirl over immigration process [The Guardian]
Lawyer’s widow argues she should be spared drink driving ban because her driveway is too long to walk down [The Telegraph]
Top solicitor and ethics expert reported to police for blasting Orange Order as ‘knuckle dragging mutants’ in foul online rant [The Sun]
Milo Yiannopoulos drops $10 million lawsuit against publisher Simon & Schuster [Pink News]
Wanted: Legal Research Assistant to Philip Rainey QC & Michael Walsh [Legal Cheek Hub]
“There is a common perception in some sets that clerks are just the proletariat there to serve their bourgeois masters for as little reward as possible. It is both socially irresponsible and abhorrent…” [Legal Cheek comments]