The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
Supreme Court plans are an attack on independent judiciary, says Labour [The Guardian]
Supreme Court reforms are “cheap revenge”, Lord Sumption says [The Times]
Law firm apologises for handling of allegations against Charlie Elphicke [The Guardian]
Covid-19: Stop anti-vaccination fake news online with new law says Labour [BBC News]
Covid insurance test case heads to Supreme Court [BBC News]
Who’s running the country? [Joshua Rozenberg]
Meghan Markle’s privacy judge to head Coleen Rooney and Becky Vardy’s explosive libel trial [The Sun]
Trump campaign abandons part of legal challenge to Pennsylvania election results [The Guardian]
Fake Law [The Secret Barrister]
“Yawn. Change the record. Johnson did not ‘lie to the queen.’ Under the law, as it was understood at the time, he acted perfectly lawfully and constitutionally.” [Legal Cheek Comments]
Why STEM students make great lawyers 2020 — with Allen & Overy, BPP, Clifford Chance, CMS, Gowling WLG, HSF and Mayer Brown [STEM Future Lawyers]
Virtual student events this week with Simmons & Simmons and TLT on the future of law and the green economy [Legal Cheek]