The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Government lawyers “out of their depth” over Brexit, claims justice committee chair Bob Neill [City A.M.]
John Worboys victim launches legal challenge over release [BBC News]
Outrage as solicitor defending a father, 50, who groped a woman in a swimming pool claims his victim would’ve ‘forgotten all about it in two or three days’ [Mail Online]
Brexit news: Brits launch Netherlands court bid to keep EU citizenship rights in case that could impact one million ex-pats [Evening Standard]
Rival Heathrow expansion scheme considers legal action against government [The Telegraph]
High Court admits people have been wrongly jailed for not paying council tax [Independent]
Why Jo gave up her six-figure barrister’s salary to teach in a then-failing inner-city school – And growing numbers of successful women over 40 are doing the same [Mail Online]
Tragedy of law student who fell nine floors to his death after drinking heavily and taking MDMA on a night out [The Herald]
Bitcoin price continues to drop… as Vladimir Putin says legal regulation of cryptocurrency ‘definitely required’ [Evening Standard]
Neymar’s lawyer shows off the incredible cheque used to bring the Brazilian to PSG [90 min]
Event: Technology and the future of legal practice — with Womble Bond Dickinson in Leeds [Legal Cheek Hub]
“Doing skills training after the training contract is so obviously a bad idea: the LPC has a lot of unhelpful stuff on, but (although it’s undermined by being assessed on a pass/fail basis) skills like writing, research and drafting are actually helpful when on your TC, far more than academic law.” [Legal Cheek comments]
