The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend
Slashing jury trials could clear courts backlog within a decade, says Lammy [The Guardian]
Government accused of dragging its heels on deepfake law over Grok AI [BBC News]
Grok AI: is it legal to produce or post undressed images of people without their consent? [The Guardian]
Judge asked black defendant if he was a ‘sugar plantation owner’ [The Telegraph] (£)
TikToker who posed as road traffic lawyer killed grandmother in crash [The Telegraph] (£)
Do gummy bears and cocktails count as reasonable legal costs? [Financial News] (£)
New campaign urges Starmer not to diminish legal rights of Send children [The Guardian]
UK can legally stop shadow fleet tankers, ministers believe [BBC News]
Call my lawyer! The sad new twist in the Beckham feud [The Times] (£)
The hell of family court: ‘A judge separated my two children’ [The Telegraph] (£)
“I once heard a barrister explain that they were like the pilots and the solicitors were the flight attendants – I was aghast.” [Legal Cheek comments]
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