The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Iraq tank-chasing lawyer Martyn Day branded dishonest in official report [The Sun]
Uber appeals over court ruling giving drivers benefits [BBC News]
Contaminated blood scandal victims allowed to sue government [The Guardian]
Secret Barrister: No, Lavinia Woodward didn’t avoid jail because she was posh, clever and pretty [New Statesman]
Activist who refused to give police passwords convicted under anti-terror laws [Info Security]
Police respond to rise of moped gangs by reviewing laws on how they can chase suspects [Independent]
Local solicitor swindles £269,000 from his elderly aunt [Evening Telegraph]
Jared Kushner’s lawyer, fooled by ’email prankster,’ offers window into private email controversy [Business Insider]
‘A feeble no may mean yes’: Indian court overturns rape conviction [The Guardian]
‘We might appear a little ditzy, but we are fighters’: The self-styled ‘Barbie lawyers’ who defend alleged murderers, rapists and cartel members [Mail Online]
Thief stole mobile phone from court minutes after being convicted of another crime [Derby Telegraph]
Bristol student event: Infrastructure: the next growth area for lawyers — with Burges Salmon [Legal Cheek Hub]
“If it happened then name and shame. And if academics could stop pretending questionnaires are evidence then that would also be super.” [Legal Cheek comments]
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