The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Law profession can’t handle talented women, says Baroness Hale [The Independent]
Sumption encapsulates the law’s sexism: only quotas can challenge male privilege [The Guardian]
Happy Birthday ruled out of copyright [BBC News]
US surveillance makes ‘Safe Harbour’ data treaty with EU invalid, European court adviser says [The Telegraph]
EU migrant quota plan faces legal challenge [Sky News]
Alison Saunders: Sexual consent is simple. We should all be clear what constitutes rape [The Guardian]
“Justice for Wales” call by lawyers for separate legal system [BBC News]
Gao Zhisheng: Chinese lawyer describes “torture” [BBC News]
Lindt wins gummy bear court battle [DW]
Compliance/regulatory risk paralegal sought by Norton Rose Fulbright [Legal Cheek Jobs]
“I heard a vac schemer crapped himself in the pool and still got offered a TC. True story.” [Legal Cheek Comments]
