The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Judges reject Donald Trump’s appeal to reinstate his travel ban [Sky News]
Donald Trump rages against the judge who halted his travel ban [The Economist]
And keeps raging some more… [Twitter]
Just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. If something happens blame him and court system. People pouring in. Bad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 5, 2017
Lawyer accused of subjecting boys to sadomasochistic beatings at Christian summer camps is urged by his priest to fly back to the UK and face justice [Mail Online]
Class of ’91: Obama and Gorsuch rubbed shoulders at Harvard Law School, but their paths split [The Guardian]
Volkswagen faces new front on emissions legal action [BBC News]
Proposed new law plans to let rapists sue their victims if they try to have an abortion [The Sun]
Britain’s most senior immigration judge criticises taxpayer-funded lawyers helping child sex abusers to avoid deportation and stay in the country [Mail Online]
Joshua Rozenberg: Why Marine A Alexander Blackman’s appeal will be heard by a “strong” court but not seen on television [Facebook]
Brexit, the Supremes and parliament [Law Society Gazette]
Training contract at Bond Dickinson [Legal Cheek Hub]
“This is history repeating itself. There was a similar AI hype storm 30 years ago about the law being reduced to AI knowledge based systems encoding the entire British Nationality Act.” [Legal Cheek Comments]