The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Boris Johnson to seek control of CPS and court system in London [The Guardian]
Judicial Review reform: An attack on our legal rights? [BBC News]
David Mellor QC quizzed over “racist rant” at security guard [The Mirror]
Paying aspiring lawyers to undertake work experience makes both moral and business sense [Law Society Gazette]
How the UK’s legal system is failing victims of domestic violence [The Guardian]
Sometimes I like to pretend I’m a geography student … [Twitter]
Sometimes I like to pretend that I am a geography student and spend hours colouring in my notes. #LawStudentProblems
— Law Student Problems (@LawVicissitudes) November 30, 2014
Matthew McConaughey wanted to be a lawyer [Digital Spy]
Mindy Kaling confronts her lawyer ex-boyfriend live on Jimmy Kimmel [Cosmopolitan]
Solicitor found guilty of trying to blackmail his childhood sex abuser [Daily Record]
Mother of German MH17 victim takes Ukraine to human rights court [The Telegraph]
EU says UK must dole out more benefits: Brussels takes legal action to force Britain to lift restrictions on migrants claiming handouts [Mail Online]
Paralegal in Hogan Lovells’ infrastructure & project finance group [Legal Cheek Jobs]
Heard in court [Facebook]
“Top tip: not everything they teach you at Bar School is true.” [Legal Cheek Comments]
