U.K. Lawyer Files Irish Lawsuit to Create Brexit Escape Clause

By Patrick Gower, Bloomberg News

A lawyer and a trio of Green party politicians filed an Irish lawsuit seeking to give the U.K. a last-minute Brexit escape clause if public sympathy turns against leaving the European Union during two years of negotiations triggered last week.

Lawyer Jolyon Maugham, who has been a vocal Brexit opponent, filed the suit in Dublin Friday, according to an April 1 statement on Maugham’s website. He is seeking a declaration that Article 50 “is revocable at the discretion” of any EUmember state, Maugham says in the case filings.

Theresa May’s March 29 notification of Article ...