Morning round-up: Wednesday 29 June
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories

Businesses fear legal clashes as a result of Brexit [Financial Times]
Brexit can still be blocked, say constitutional lawyers [The Independent]
Labour officials receive legal advice on whether Jeremy Corbyn could stand for leadership re-election [The Independent]
Don’t rock the legal sector post-Brexit vote, pleads Law Society chief executive [City A.M.]
Bet365 faces legal action over delay in paying winning punter £54,000 [The Guardian]
The 2016 Abolition Act [Jack of Kent blog]
Trademark protection will cost more after Brexit says intellectual property lawyer [Dezeen]
Harry Potter star Rupert Grint sues HMRC for potential £1m tax refund [The Guardian]
Legal victory for Leicester City Council in landmark Israeli goods boycott battle [Leicester Mercury]
German court restarts trial after judge repeatedly nods off [Fox 5]
Free event: How to make it as a City lawyer — with the Black Solicitors Network [Legal Cheek Hub]
“Some girl got mega drunk at one of our vac scheme outings, stole a bottle of champagne, passed out/fainted in the toilets, was told to go home by both the rest of us and the bar staff, and then was bundled into a taxi and we never saw her again…” [Legal Cheek comments]
3 Comments
Not Amused
You can’t use legal solutions to political problems.
Lord Lyle of Loquatious BS
I have experienced judges nodding off and client’s too, the most spectacular being Afou Daras with huge snoring in the CA case of El Ali & Afou Daras v SSHD (UN intervening) circa 2004. This was totally Nick Blake’s fault. 3 hrs of loquacious BS. He’s now L.J. Blake.
C’est la vie
Cammie
Thought it woundl’t to give it a shot. I was right.
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