The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Campaigner for gender-neutral passports wins court challenge [BBC News]
Medical graduate put on sex offenders’ register after grabbing Tinder date’s breasts during sex [The Telegraph]
Law student’s halls of residence demolished while she was still living there [Birmingham Mail]
Monarch: MP urges change in law to protect pension schemes [The Guardian]
Russian oligarch had ‘sham’ offshore trusts, UK High Court rules [Financial Times]
Australian court rules an unsent text message on phone counts as a will [Mashable]
A lawyer explains who really owns your tattoos [Vice]
YouTube star Jake Paul ‘sued by victim of car horn prank’ [BBC News]
Judge fired for dismissing case due to unclear acronym [Mail Online]
Bristol student event: Infrastructure: the next growth area for lawyers — with Burges Salmon [Legal Cheek Hub]
“The author has missed the point. A law degree is not supposed to prepare you for practice as a solicitor or even the training contract. This is why the LPC is supposed to exist – to bridge the gap (although whether it does or not is debatable).” [Legal Cheek comments]