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Weekly round-up of the top legal blogosphere posts

The £1 billion IT project that has caused chaos in the criminal courts [The Spectator] (registration required)

Why do lawyers talk legalese? [Pink Tape]

Can the government veto legislation by advising the Queen to withhold royal assent? [Public Law For Everyone]

Police and crime commissioners are not up to the job [The Times] (registration required)

Why is Chris Grayling spending so much money on telephone bills? [The Spectator] (registration required)

Our courts must protect domestic abuse victims from being silenced [Liberty]

Delay is a waste of time [Spinning Hugo]

The latest comments from across Legal Cheek

Tommy Robinson faces defamation action over Syrian refugee video [Zelo Street]

The risks of the “Grieve amendment” to remove precedence for government business [Policy Exchange]

Crispin Passmore: Change happens in two ways — gradually and then suddenly [Legal Futures]

Home Office put eight-month-old baby with British citizenship in immigration detention centre [Free Movement]

“Denning survives as a great interview filter. If a candidate waxes on about how great he was, it’s rejection for them…” [Legal Cheek comments]

How will Brexit disarray affect future lawyers? With Ashurst, Hogan Lovells, Henderson Chambers, Shearman & Sterling and ULaw [Legal Cheek Hub]

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