The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Brexit: High Court to hear challenge to Article 50 strategy [BBC News]
The four tensions of Brexit [Jack of Kent blog]
Fake penis ‘sex attack’ woman Gayle Newland has conviction quashed over judge’s comments [Mirror]
Solicitor accused of falsifying legal aid claims [BBC News]
Sir Terence Conran taken to court by top restaurateur over £3m share dispute [The Telegraph]
Lords’ vote forcing papers to pay legal fees in hacking cases even if they win is a war on free press [The Sun]
Aleppo doctor files legal action against Russia at European Court of Human Rights over bombing of hospitals [The Independent]
Questioning of Julian Assange by Swedish authorities postponed [The Guardian]
A legal decision on the status of Uber drivers is imminent [City A.M.]
Strictly’s Judge Rinder: ‘Knowing Benedict Cumberbatch at uni put me off acting’ [The Telegraph]
Attorney: Donald Trump will have to answer teen’s rape accusation in court [BuzzFeed]
Winter two-day workshops at Slaughter and May [Legal Cheek Hub]
“To those who bemoan and question an ‘Oxbridge bias’ in the law. This. A thousand times, this.” [Legal Cheek comments]