The Bundle: Judges takes on the government over legal aid and Assange goes to Sweden. Maybe.

LEGAL AID: JUDGES VS GOVERNMENT Last week, campaigners urged justice secretary Kenneth Clarke to show legal aid some love . This week, the judiciary had their say on the legal aid green paper. Afua Hirsch reports: In an unprecedented criticism of government plans to reduce the legal aid budget by £350m, judges have said that removing funding from whole areas of law... would lead to an "inevitable" decline in the quality of justice in courts in England and Wales. Jon Robins has been wading through the responses to the green paper and has decided that he was wrong to give ministers the benefit of the doubt on legal aid . JULIAN ASSANGE TO BE EXTRADITED On Thursday chief magistrate Howard Riddle ruled that Julian Assange should be extradited to Sweden to answer accusations of rape and sexual assault. The judgment, damning in its criticism of Assange's Swedish lawyer, can be read in full here . This decision will not have surprised many, including Matrix barrister and extradition expert, Julian Knowles. He told Joshua Rozenberg that parts of the defence's case were "frankly, hopeless" . Assange appealed to his supporters to challenge the system of European arrest warrants and will be lodging an appeal against the judgment within the next seven days. YOU MAY HAVE MISSED • Afua Hirsch: Divorce is messy. Sometimes mediation won't work • Stop and search numbers fall after change to counterterrorism powers • Campaigners launch legal challenge to library closures • Tuition fees: Teenagers seek human rights judicial review • Alpha Sesay tells us why Charles Taylor's lawyer needs a lawyer • Torture inquiry is legally flawed, say rights groups as NGOs ponder boycott • Alex Aldridge: Making the would-be barristers of tomorrow face harsh realities of today THIS WEEK'S LEGAL JOBS Head of professional practice, The Bar Standards Board Legal director, Equal Rights Trust Assistant legal advisor, Amnesty International WHAT YOU SAID BBC1's Silk, the new legal drama where Maxine Peake plays defence barrister Martha Costello, premiered on Tuesday. Reviews were mixed. Wewawu took umbrage at Costello's "old-lady shopper", commenting that real barristers have black wheelie cases . On Twitter, @KateGomery thought the characters were "insufferably earnest and naive" and the plot "obvious and dull". @ltdraper was more positive, "Moffat's strong clerks show that there is more to the Bar than just the barrister." We'll be tuning in next week too and will want your verdicts. You can also follow us at @GdnLaw team on Twitter and like us on Facebook