The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend
Defendants “gaming system” to get domestic violence cases dropped [The Guardian]
BBC “will not appeal against Sir Cliff Richard privacy ruling over fears it would be slammed for £2million cost to taxpayers if it were to lose” [Mail Online]
Burqa ban: First woman charged in Denmark under new law banning full-face veil [The Independent]
Police urged to investigate Vote Leave’s “law-breaking” [The Observer]
NHS must offer fertility treatment to trans patients or face legal action, human rights watchdog says [The Telegraph]
People ask me how I sleep at night: As a barrister, representing criminals who might be guilty is just part of my job [Metro]
More stalkers walk free from court despite numbers of cases tripling [The Telegraph]
US judge: Progress to reunite migrant families “unacceptable” [Reuters]
Thirteen-year contempt battle will extend Human Rights Act [Law Society Gazette]
BPTC and LPC graduates – LPC Law wants you! Become a county court advocate and gain unique experience of civil advocacy [Legal Cheek Hub]
“I’m at a US firm as a trainee. NQ pay is very nice, but trainees are paid the same as the MC and others. Yet at most US shops they’re beasted harder and oftentimes much harder. More responsibility = being treated like a crap associate working the same hours but being paid one third. NQ retention rates are misleading and probably 50% or more of my cohort, including myself, will have left to go in-house by 2-3PQE anyway.” [Legal Cheek Comments]
