The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Joshua Rozenberg: Judges to rule on Brexit tomorrow? [Facebook]
Muslim lawyer slams Louis Smith’s two-month ban from gymnastics for leaked video of him mocking Islam [Mail Online]
Tories face questions over support of Keith Vaz justice committee appointment [The Guardian]
London’s basement extension boom to be tested in High Court [Financial Times]
MoJ hopes for fresh start after end of ‘shambolic car crash’ of a court translation contract [International Business Times]
Sharia law being administered in shop basements, MPs told [The Telegraph]
Magistrates demand prison visits as part of judicial training [The Guardian]
Solicitor and ex assistant coroner struck off over allegations of ‘misusing funds’ [Yorkshire Post]
How a lawyer bicycled her way to entrepreneurship [Forbes]
King of Morocco offers to pay legal costs of Arabic pop star accused of raping a woman at a Paris hotel [Mail Online]
Strictly’s Judge Rinder: ‘I lack the smouldering sexuality for a rhumba’ [The Telegraph]
Free event — Commercial Awareness Question Time: US Election Special [Legal Cheek Hub]
“Well obviously you don’t have to look like Kim Kardashian, but yes, as a woman you will stand a better chance if you look groomed in the way that mainstream notions of female attractiveness demand…” [Legal Cheek comments]