The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Man steals Crown Prosecution Service laptop from a court [South Wales Evening Post]
Inside the Doughty Street dreamboat: Why Amal Alamuddin’s chambers has the hottest barristers [Your Barrister Boyfriend]
Trainee barrister “cried rape 11 times to get out of exams”, court hears [The Mirror]
Lord Chief Justice proposes opening up courts to MPs with guided tours [The Guardian]
Zac Efron to star as top lawyer in new John Grisham film The Associate [The Independent]
Nigella Lawson could be forced to undergo blood tests to enter US [The Telegraph]
Court reporter causes chaos by repeatedly writing “I hate my job” on trial transcripts [Above the Law]
Lord Chief Justice: Litigants in person putting pressure on courts system [Law Gazette]
Accutrainee’s first qualifiers land NQ jobs [Lawyer2B]
Humiliated Cabinet Minister is married to Bevan Brittan partner [RollOnFriday]
Heard in court [Facebook]
Does anyone else hear a ‘whooshing’ sound as the joke passes overhead? [Legal Cheek Comments]