The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
CEO of law firm behind £36bn BHP suit abruptly replaced [Financial Times] (£)
Courts service ‘covered up’ IT bug that caused evidence to go missing [BBC News]
Revealed: oligarchs spied on UK lawyers who ran Serious Fraud Office cases [The Guardian]
Police arrest hundreds of Palestine Action supporters under anti-terror law [Financial Times] (£)
River Island restructuring plan approved by High Court judge [The Standard]
Waiter brings legal action against the Ivy over share of tips and service charge [The Guardian]
Solicitor loses bid to be restored to roll after ‘systemic’ failures led to £1.2 million fraud [Today’s Conveyancer]
Aston Villa fan mum moons judge saying ‘kiss my a***’ as he jails her for Blues fan attack [Birmingham Live]
Could latest seismic legal challenge leave Fifa wobbling on its perch? [The Guardian]
Conor McGregor eyes legal challenge to presidential eligibility rules [Sunday Times]
“The substantively legitimate points were raised in the original petition. Those were then criticised in a phenomenally childish and misrepresentative way on a national platform.” [Legal Cheek comments]
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