The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
MoJ scraps legal aid restrictions for victims of domestic violence [The Guardian]
New courts planned to hear super-wealthy battle over finances [The Telegraph]
Theresa May pulls out of Brexit divorce deal after EU refuses to accept her demands to limit how long EU judges can rule over their citizens [The Sun]
‘Breach’ of court order banning identifying killers of James Bulger investigated [Sky News]
Driver gets 40-year ban after being caught without insurance 28 times [Metro]
High Court criticises BSB as it dismisses appeal against sanction handed to leading barrister [Legal Futures]
Donald Trump’s lawyer claims US presidents cannot commit obstruction of justice [The Telegraph]
Gun-toting lawyer who spends her weekends hunting is captured skinning her kills and posing with their carcasses in divisive social media pictures [Mail Online]
Pre-law student living in a van to cut costs before law school [Above The Law]
Event: The skills future lawyers need for the new digital world — with RPC, Google and Uber [Legal Cheek Hub]
“I think this will send a message to all universities to look after the individual needs of a student more efficiently, too many people are failed by the system and when shit hits the fan nobody wants to know.” [Legal Cheek comments]