The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Legal challenge ‘seeks to invalidate’ Brexit vote [Financial Times]
Constitutional lawyers tell the UK High Court it’s ‘beyond any doubt’ that parliament should vote on Article 50 [Business Insider UK]
Barrister MEP Woolfe quits ‘death spiral’ UKIP [BBC News]
Hundreds of UK lawyers register in Ireland in Brexit insurance move [The Guardian]
Transgender schoolgirl sent home for wearing the ‘wrong’ clothes wins legal battle after outpouring of support from pupils [The Sun]
Greenpeace joins with councils to prepare legal challenge over Heathrow airport expansion [The Independent]
How spies broke law to snoop on your emails: Intelligence agencies also harvested data on websites visited and who people called and texted [Mail Online]
Five myths about studying law, debunked [The Guardian]
Free Event: Commercial Awareness Question Time: US Election Special [Legal Cheek Hub]
“If you REALLY want to frighten the legal profession though, put sniffer dogs at the entrance to county and crown courts and watch how many barristers refuse to go through…” [Legal Cheek comments]