Morning round-up: Friday 23 March

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The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

UK solicitor cleared of forcing daughter to undergo FGM [The Guardian]

Cambridge Analytica taken to court over data storage [BBC News]

Grenfell Council faces cries of ‘shame on you’ as it signs off on £3.5 Million for legal fees [Huffington Post]

Serious Fraud Office retrial of former Tesco executives could be back in court by September [City A.M.]

The latest comments from across Legal Cheek

Daughter of Uber self-driving vehicle victim retains personal injury lawyer [Reuters]

Donald Trump’s top Russia lawyer John Dowd resigns [BBC News]

Judge who had a heart attack in court praises ‘extraordinary’ staff who saved his life [Wales Online]

Man apologises after swearing at judge in video link outburst [Telegraph & Argus]

BPTC & LPC graduates sought to work as County Court Advocates. Start this summer! [Legal Cheek Hub]

“Commercial awareness is overrated — don’t think it helps in bagging that training contract as people make it out to be. All that is needed is just common sense.” [Legal Cheek comments]

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