The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Lawyer faces jail over scam to avoid £23,000 in rail fares after spending more than two years saying he travelled from Wembley rather than Oxfordshire town where he lived [Mail Online]
The disgraceful letter from the Ministry of Justice to The Howard League for Penal Reform [Jack of Kent]
The letter in full [Twitter]
I have just received this pic.twitter.com/WxY0Qsn9Zb
— Frances Crook (@francescrook) March 20, 2015
Zenith Chambers barrister suspended by Ukip over harassment complaint [BBC News]
Sex worker to launch legal challenge against NI prostitution ban [The Guardian]
Charlie Hebdo workers launch legal fight against parents of murdered editor for share in £20million rise in profits after Paris massacre [Mail Online]
Lawyer campaigns for chimpanzees to be granted human rights [International Business Times]
Crown Prosecution Service under fire over Sun journalists’ three-year ordeal that ended in acquittals [The Telegraph]
On the one-year anniversary of his imprisonment in Swaziland, a letter from human-rights lawyer Thulani Maseko [Quartz]
The top five misspelled law words [JustCite Blog]
Real estate paralegal sought by leading law firm in London [Legal Cheek Jobs]
“Bollocks I live with 3 law students and this is a load of shit!” [Legal Cheek Comments]