The top legal affairs news stories from the long weekend
Abortion: Theresa May urged to act on NI’s strict law [BBC News]
Ailbhe Smyth has fought to change Ireland’s abortion law for decades — and now she’s won [BuzzFeed]
The unsavoury alliance between oligarchs and London’s top lawyers [The Observer]
Second Brexit referendum would see UK vote to remain in EU, new poll analysis shows [The Independent]
Far-right demonstrators mass at the gates of Downing Street to demand EDL founder Tommy Robinson is released following his arrest for breaching the peace [Mail Online]
Attorney General is fighting to crack open a £400m “piggy bank” left over from 1927 after Britain’s super rich clubbed together to clear the nation’s WWI debt [Mail Online]
The drug laws don’t work [Twitter]
David Gauke says middle class people cocaine takers at dinner parties are to blame for teen street stabbings. No, that would be HMG's antiquated drugs laws that have woefully failed. Time to decriminalise.
— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) May 27, 2018
Why aren’t human rights part of the essential curriculum at primary school? [RightsInfo]
Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti has become a “hero” on the left — and he has an aggressive fan base [Business Insider]
Egyptian lawyer files €1 billion lawsuit against Sergio Ramos for challenge on Mo Salah [The Mirror]
Paralegal sought for the Legal Services Directorate of Avon and Somerset Constabulary [Legal Cheek Hub]
Apply now to become a campus ambassador at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner ahead of the Friday 1 June deadline [Legal Cheek Careers]