The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
UK’s new supreme court chief calls for clarity on ECJ after Brexit [The Guardian]
UK Supreme Court president Lady Hale calls for more women judges [Financial Times]
Terminally-ill man loses High Court challenge against the law on assisted dying [The Telegraph]
Lawyer cleared over grandfather’s death at zebra crossing [Evening Standard]
Men should avoid having sex with women who have drunk any amount of alcohol, says barrister [Independent]
Revealed: Mystery woman who lost her wallet behind a radiator in Manchester nightclub in the 1980s is a senior government lawyer [Mail Online]
‘Racially abusive graffiti’ found on Law lecture theatre desk [Varsity Online]
‘Pregnancy robes’ a baby step to encourage more women lawyers [WA Today]
Bristol student event: Infrastructure: the next growth area for lawyers — with Burges Salmon [Legal Cheek Hub]
“Except that completion of the LPC does not entitle one to call oneself a solicitor, regardless of context. Being called to the bar does, apparently, entitle one to refer to oneself as a barrister without more, so long as the context is sufficiently extra-legal.” [Legal Cheek comments]