The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Underfunded justice system ‘crumbling’, top criminal barrister says [The Guardian]
Brexit latest: UK will be ruled by EU law during transition period, Michel Barnier announces [Evening Standard]
This is why Harriet Harman wants to stop rape complainants being questioned on their sexual history [BuzzFeed News]
Government to review 1.6m disability benefit claims after High Court ruling on ‘blatantly discriminatory’ system [Independent]
Stephen Hawking wins permission to take Jeremy Hunt to court over ‘back-door NHS privatisation’ [Mirror]
Son of top British barrister ‘was confused when a student initiated sex with him only to later accuse him of rape’, court hears [Mail Online]
Ireland set to hold referendum on abortion law in May [Financial Times]
Bitcoin Lawyer: Law firms are accepting cryptocurrency as payment [Market Mogul]
Facebook begins privacy push ahead of tough new European law [The Verge]
Student event: Technology and the future of legal practice — with Womble Bond Dickinson in Leeds [Legal Cheek Hub]
“Storing valuable templates and precedents on a personal cloud device would almost certainly be against company policy for the reasons already stated, they are valuable and take time and money to perfect. A very useful commodity for someone leaving the firm to set up practice on their own…” [Legal Cheek comments]