The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Lady justice: is the judiciary ready for Brenda Hale? [Prospect]
Deliveroo wins landmark legal victory against union claim [Telegraph]
Lawyers say a domestic abuse victim who was trafficked to the UK was unlawfully imprisoned [BuzzFeed News]
Oxbridge must end dirty investments — both offshore and oil [The Guardian]
Nigel Farage ‘forced to retract remarks about anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate after losing £100k legal battle’ [Independent]
London cabbies in legal fight against TfL over ‘extortionate’ licence fee hike [Evening Standard]
Arthur Collins acid victims take legal action against London’s Mangle nightclub [Newsbeat]
EU citizens who become British can bring non-EU spouses to UK, court rules [The Guardian]
Trump is nominating white men as judges at the highest rate in 30 years: Investigation finds 91% of the president’s 58 picks are white, and 81% are male [Mail Online]
Canada ‘knees together’ judge wants to practise law again [BBC News]
DiversCity in Law 2017: A commercial law graduate recruitment event for LGBT candidates. Apply to attend [DiversCity in Law]
“These gowns really don’t denote “excellence”, they typically mean the wearer has a bit less of a social life. I ran rings around most of them when it came to verbal argument, even if I wouldn’t have necessarily been able to do the same in an exam.” [Legal Cheek comments]