The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
Victims in rape cases can lie in court, says leading barrister [The Times] (£)
British law firm representing Hamas changes name to Riverway to the Sea [Telegraph] (£)
Some consequences of Palestine Action ban ‘overstated’, says High Court judge [The Standard]
MP recalls childhood abuse as he calls for law change to make domestic abuse a specific criminal offence [Sky News]
Vet banned lawyer over her gender-critical views [Telegraph] (£)
V&A can’t return looted objects. Our hands are tied by law [The Times] (£)
Owain’s Law: Ellie James wants patients given rights over tissue [BBC News]
Rob Rinder: ‘Why it would be difficult to bring back Judge Rinder’ [Yorkshire Post]
How MI5 piled falsehood on falsehood in court in the case of a spy who abused women [BBC News]
“A very well disguised way of getting future trainees to defer without blantantly offering them direct handouts?” [Legal Cheek comments]
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