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It's news about fight for place in court (7,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

witness box

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'place in court' is the definition.
'witness box' can be an answer for 'court' (thesaurus). I am unsure of the 'place in' bit.

'it's news about fight' is the wordplay.
'about' indicates an anagram.
'fight' becomes 'box' (boxing is a kind of fighting).
'its'+'news'='itsnews'
'itsnews' is an anagram of 'witness'.
'witness'+'box'='WITNESS-BOX'

'for' is the link.

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(Other definitions for witness box that I've seen before include "From where one testifies" , "Courtroom enclosure" , "Place for giving evidence" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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