The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Brexit: Theresa May’s plan to fix date of Britain’s EU withdrawal into law is ‘thoroughly stupid’, says leading Tory rebel [The Independent]
UK risks mass exodus of EU academics post-Brexit, finds report [The Guardian]
Putting a price on the rule of law [Financial Times]
US billionaire used Britain’s secret legal system to gag The Sun from identifying him after arrest for rape [The Sun]
Lord Hutchinson of Lullington obituary [The Guardian]
Only a quarter of UK law firms are ready for GDPR, study shows [Computer Weekly]
France to reassess child sex laws after controversial cases [BBC News]
Donald Trump nominates lawyer who has never tried a case for lifetime federal judgeship [The Independent]
Judge who told jurors she ‘did not believe the victim was raped at all’ is reprimanded [Dallas News]
DiversCity in Law 2017: A commercial law graduate recruitment event for LGBT candidates. Apply to attend [DiversCity in Law]
“This is the thin edge of the wedge. There will be a lot of senior barristers and chambers management holding crisis meetings this week. More and more of these stories will break.” [Legal Cheek comments]