The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Does any Supreme Court judge represent the 17.4 million Brexit voters? [The Spectator]
Who will do justice to our judiciary? [Standpoint]
Lawyer to report Asons £300,000 grant deal to national watchdog [Bolton News]
Some footnotes to the conviction of Thomas Mair [Barrister Blogger]
‘That part of my witness statement is not true’: never a great start to a case [Civil Litigation Brief]
MoJ’s whiplash reform blunder ‘could open door to judicial review’ [Law Society Gazette]
Tributes paid to Bristol University law student Kim Long who ended their life [Bristol Post]
Ukraine appoints law graduate, 23, to lead purge campaign [The Guardian]
Spanish judge calls for Neymar to be jailed for two years and Barcelona fined £7million in corruption case following move from Santos [Mail Online]
Texas judge suggests lynching black suspect, denies it’s about race [Huffington Post]
Death row: the lawyer who keeps losing [The Guardian]
Beyond the Bar: the evolution of solicitor-advocates in global law firms [Legal Cheek Hub]
“It never seems to occur to blogging lawyers that when they look down their noses at non-lawyer journalists the world looks down its nose at their badly written and tedious ‘journalism’.” [Legal Cheek comments]