Morning round-up: Tuesday 19 May

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By Thomas Connelly on

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts

newspapers4GCHQ spies given immunity from anti-hacking laws [The Telegraph]

Thomas Cook’s Corfu “apology” smacks of legal meddling [The Guardian]

“Insufficient evidence” to prosecute Ched Evans website for identifying rape victim, CPS rules [The Sheffield Star]

Lawyer among Irish travellers who won £24,000 payout from Wetherspoons after ban from pub [Evening Standard]

BBC journalist arrested for filming Qatar World Cup 2022 workers [The Telegraph]

Novel commute: how Amelia Slocombe, a 15-hour a day lawyer and mother, turned her train journey into an e-book [Evening Standard]

Dentons creates legal business accelerator to push forward innovation in the law [Legal Futures]

Uber is building a 70-lawyer in-house group [Law and More]

Law GIF [Facebook]

Costs paralegal at growing and innovative medium-sized national firm [Legal Cheek Jobs]

“Never forget that J.R.R. Tolkein’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ was also rejected by every major publisher before he finally decided to publish via an e-book.” [Legal Cheek Comments]