The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Lawyer who provided legal basis for CIA torture techniques says agency might have gone too far and broken the law [Mail Online]
Barristers could be part of Sydney siege drama [Lawyers Weekly]
CIA torture report: David Cameron urged to open judge-led probe into Britain’s role in controversial secret US programme [The Independent]
Doughty Street’s Keir Starmer selected to contest safe Labour seat [BBC News]
Army chiefs blame lawyers for limiting their power to yell at suspects during interrogations [The Telegraph]
Privacy is not dead: Microsoft lawyer prepares to take on US government [The Guardian]
“If anything happens to me it will not be an accident”: What sixth member of impaled tycoon Scot Young’s ‘ring of death’ said days before fatal helicopter crash [Mail Online]
How to take down a QC [Twitter]
*cymbals*
Tom Cooke, a 19th-century musician subpoenaed as an expert witness, cross-examined by James Scarlett QC. pic.twitter.com/thrLMvkaGe
— Gary Slapper (@garyslapper) December 13, 2014
Terror law reform signals fundamental shift [BBC News]
“Nick Clegg may be the Deputy Prime Minister but his wife, the international lawyer Miriam González Durántez, earns four times as much as he does” [The Telegraph]
Baroness Hale says women in veils should remove them when giving evidence in court [The Independent]
Lee Harvey Oswald coffin at centre of legal row [The Telegraph]
UCLA law professor forced to apologize after “racially insensitive and divisive” exam question he set about Ferguson shooting sparked outrage [Mail Online]
Why the “plebgate” libel judgment is a black thing [The Voice]
Immigration paralegal sought for West-End law firm [Legal Cheek Jobs]
Heard in court [Facebook]
“Clifford Chance can be a great place to work, but contractors can be treated differently, not just the security team, but the cleaners, catering & maintenance teams could probably all tell you a similar story.” [Legal Cheek Comments]