The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Land Registry privatisation plans revealed in leaked document [The Guardian]
Leigh Day solicitor who destroyed key document at centre of inquiry into the actions of the British Armed forces in Iraq is being investigated by the solicitors’ watchdog [The Telegraph]
Chris Grayling blocks inquiry into sexual assaults inside jails [The Independent]
Chris Huhne: Yes I was guilty, but I was prosecuted on the basis of Constance Briscoe’s deception [The Guardian]
QC expresses sympathy for Huhne [Twitter]
BEST comment below that Chris Huhne piece RT @seanjones11kbw I just couldn’t resist… pic.twitter.com/9t48qX6y1V
— Anya (@anyabike) May 5, 2014
Tweeting Staffordshire Police did not take legal advice over controversial #drinkdrivers hashtag [The Sentinel]
Oscar Pistorius’s trial resumes as defence tries to rebuild credibility [The Guardian]
Amal Alamuddin faces a very different engagement in Libya trial [The Observer]
Yet another criminal Bar Downfall parody [YouTube]
“Happy World Press Freedom Day!”: What Egyptian judge tells journalist held on terror charges after he makes desperate plea from his cage [Mail Online]
Cardiff City, Fulham and Norwich City consider legal battle against relegation from the Premier League [The Telegraph]
Barbara Hewson: Clifford’s sentence has little to do with justice [Spiked]
“No informed person could possibly believe that the BPTC is a useful course” [Legal Cheek Comments]
