The top legal affairs news stories from the weekend
Covid-19 tracking app must satisfy human rights and data laws [The Guardian]
Coronavirus: Courts must resume to deal with “backlog of cases” [BBC News]
Data security flaw exposes details of thousands of legal documents [Financial Times]
More than 70 per cent of high street law firms face closure after coronavirus crisis causes “dramatic plunge in income” [Mail Online]
Women launch legal action to stop military courts trying UK rape cases [The Guardian]
‘Fearless’ Scots lawyer who worked to decriminalise sex between men found dead in his home [Pink News]
British Airways heading for legal battle with union officials over plans to make a quarter of its pilots redundant [This is Money]
United States women’s football team’s equal pay bid dismissed by court [Unilad]
Lawyer dresses as Grim Reaper to scare people off beaches amid coronavirus pandemic [Metro]
LegalEdCon Virtual: Final release tickets now on sale [Legal Cheek Conference]
Virtual student event: What COVID-19 means for future lawyers — with Pinsent Masons, Willkie Farr, the SRA and ULaw [Legal Cheek Events]
Baker McKenzie is looking for enthusiastic and motivated Brand Ambassadors to represent the firm at your university [Legal Cheek Noticeboard]
“Either he loves contracts or they must be paying him £££££” [Legal Cheek Comments]
