The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Child sex abuse inquiry: Judge Lowell Goddard quits [BBC News]
Joshua Rozenberg: Why did Dame Lowell Goddard resign? [Facebook]
High Court to rule on new members’ vote in Labour leadership ballot [The Guardian]
Anger as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn hands barrister Shami Chakrabarti a peerage [Jewish Chronicle]
Controversial lawyer is ‘to face a criminal investigation after Iraqi civilians were bribed to bring abuse claims against British soldiers’ [Mail Online]
Ealing teenager could become barrister at just 19 after finishing law degree [Get West London]
Mum suing Argos for £20million over her shock at learning she had been using an ‘unsafe’ car seat for 18 months [The Sun]
Calvin Klein, Paul Smith and Wallpaper back Apple in legal fight with Samsung [The Guardian]
‘Arm of English law should stretch that far’ — lawyer of woman ‘caged’ by dad in Saudi Arabia [RT]
Will Pokemon Go be stopped by patent courts? [Forbes]
Tennent’s renames ‘Barcade’ campaign as US company threatens legal action [The Drum]
LPC Law seeks BPTC & LPC graduates to work as County Court Advocates. Immediate Start! [Legal Cheek Hub]
“Richard Susskind is, to be frank, the legal equivalent of man who wears a sandwich board shouting, ‘The End is Nigh!’ Eventually, he’ll be right but not before he’s proved to be a lunatic with a pet theory.” [Legal Cheek comments]
