The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Theresa May’s legal highs ban is unenforceable, say government advisers [The Guardian]
Hulk Hogan’s sex-tape lawsuit may shut down Gawker [Metro]
The Liverpool lawyer and mum-of-three taking on Justice Secretary Michael Gove [Liverpool Echo]
Pupillage panel guzzles bacon sandwiches [Twitter]
Jo Morris of @ChCtChambers cooking bacon sarnies for the pupillage committee who are busy interviewing in Chambers pic.twitter.com/Q7QwC5lqrv
— colin witcher (@colinwitcher) July 4, 2015
Mystery surrounding Harper Lee’s new novel deepens after reports manuscript was found three years earlier [The Telegraph]
Blasphemy is now legal in Iceland thanks to the Pirate Party [Unilad]
Heather Brooke: Gove is right, our antiquated court system produces two-nation justice [The Guardian]
US judge recognises old school friend in dock [BBC News]
Bespoke training contracts starting 2015 onward [Legal Cheek Jobs]
“It’s a perennial problem that the MOJ is filled with failed barristers who never got pupillage or never got a tenancy…” [Legal Cheek Comments]