The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
UK’s top judge unveils plan to make supreme court more diverse [The Guardian]
Brexit is likely to end up before EU’s highest court, says Europe’s top judge [The Independent]
Child abuse inquiry has ‘crumbled’, Michael Mansfield says [Mail Online]
MPs back new ‘Walter Mitty’ medals law to criminalise ‘military imposters’ [The Telegraph]
High court gives ministers deadline for tougher air pollution plan [The Guardian]
Thief talked down from rooftop by lawyer after being chased through Middlesbrough [Gazette Live]
Grandad wins three-year legal fight… to call his garden a garden [Mirror]
Loads of Britain’s most well-known laws are never enforced [Vice]
Pope Francis amends canonical Catholic law to allow absolution for the ‘sin’ of abortion [International Business Times]
Trump lawyer: No charitable funds will pay for Trump University settlement [The Hill]
Alarm over proposed Philippine law to jail 9-year-olds [Bangkok Post]
Free Event: Beyond the Bar — the evolution of solicitor-advocates in global law firms [Legal Cheek Hub]
“Yeah absolutely. Even when the political question isn’t in fact a political question at all but a point of constitutional law. In fact, they should totally leave constitutional law to whoever the party in power is. This won’t be a problem as once they do that, it can be the same party in perpetuity. Excellent idea.” [Legal Cheek comments]
