The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Nursing home sued after hiring strippers to perform for residents [The Telegraph]
Mark Duggan’s mother wins right to judicial review [Evening Standard]
Professor Gus John rages at “illiterate rantings” of diversity report critics [Law Society Gazette]
Top EU court rejects EU-wide data retention law [BBC News]
Judicial selfie? [Twitter]
Moral dilemma: am sitting as Recorder today. 16 year old daughter requires judicial selfie. Yes/no?
— Simon Myerson QC (@SCynic1) April 9, 2014
A retired solicitor and his wife living on Dorset’s “Millionaires’ Row” resorted to buying a caravan “so that they can get out at the weekends and actually get a night’s sleep” [The Telegraph]
Smartphone trial judge annoyed by phones in court [Mail Online]
Law set to give Attorney General power to edit online news archives in the run-up to trials [Press Gazette]
Running the 2014 London Marathon to raise funds for the London Legal Support Trust [Just Giving]
Shadowing Northern Ireland’s barristers [BBC iPlayer]
Heard in court [Facebook]
“If you get a pupillage, you’ve done bloody well against all the odds. It really isn’t to be underestimated” [Legal Cheek Comments]