The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Theresa May blasted over mental health as ex-Shadow Attorney General tells of his 25-year-old barrister nephew’s suicide [Mirror]
Martin Schulz refers Steven Woolfe and Mike Hookem ‘altercation’ to French police [International Business Times]
Personal injury sector now ‘working well’, says SRA report [Global Legal Post]
EU drops law to limit cancer-linked chemical in food after industry complaint [The Guardian]
Heathrow Airport expansion faces multiple legal challenges [Law Gazette]
Michael Barrymore set to win long legal battle over police who wrongly arrested him over 2001 pool death at his home [Mail Online]
Brixton’s ‘Lawyers in the Soup Kitchen’ offers free legal advice [Brixton Buzz]
Benedict Cumberbatch gushes over his good friend Strictly Come Dancing’s Judge Rinder during appearance on This Morning [The Sun]
Does Facebook’s facial scanning technology violate privacy law? Site faces hearing this week over automatic tagging of people in photos [Mail Online]
Law school in trademark fight will change its name again [Chron]
Full-time trainee solicitor sought to join London based law firm (immediate start) [Legal Cheek Hub]
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