The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Northern Ireland’s attorney general to appeal ruling on abortion ban [The Guardian]
Gove’s “actions” give hope for justice policy [BBC News]
Legal quirk forces Scottish parliament to consider call to legalise incest [BuzzFeed]
Deposed Maldives leader attacks Cherie Blair’s firm for advising island government [The Telegraph]
Top lawyer claims US does better on data protection than EU [Financial Times]
Swedish human rights activist Peter Dahlin has been deported from China [Time]
Keir Starmer: Victims of crimes are ill-served by the justice system: this bill will change that [The Guardian]
Can a law abolish snobbery? [BBC News]
Young lawyer from London killed in hit-and-run crash in Nigeria [Evening Standard]
Training contract applications are now being accepted from City outfit Mayer Brown [Legal Cheek Hub]
“The LPC is relatively useless. Some of the stuff is needed but the large majority of competence comes from the training contract. This will not change.” [Legal Cheek Comments]