The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Labour leadership: Members drop voting legal challenge [BBC News]
Police to hire law firms to tackle cyber criminals in radical pilot project [The Guardian]
Shamed law firm that raked in millions in taxpayers’ cash suing brave British soldiers to be closed down [The Sun]
Philip Davies’ claim that courts favour women “not backed by evidence” [The Guardian]
Brexit could be delayed until late 2019 because officials won’t be ready to start talks for months yet, ministers warn senior City figures [Mail Online]
Judge jails mum after refusing to swear her husband had hit her [The Mirror]
Ukip threatened with legal action if Woolfe stood for leader [The Observer]
Brendan Dassey: Steven Avery’s lawyer Dean Strang praises judge for overturning murder conviction [The Independent]
“The worst lawyer in the US”: Texas defense attorney, who has lost ALL his death penalty cases, calls it quits after four decades and dozens of trials [Mail Online]
In the current post-referendum/pre-Brexit world there is plenty of speculation on the future of data protection in the UK [Future of Law Blog]
“All too often in our society people try to forgive a wrong by pretending that it was not a wrong at all.” [Legal Cheek comments]