The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Number of female judges in UK “snowballing” despite equality row [The Guardian]
David Pannick QC responds to Lord Sumption gender diversity comments [Twitter]
Great response by David Pannick QC to Lord Sumption http://t.co/T0iyjiR7Mz pic.twitter.com/8Ng2XAPGw1
— anya (@anyabike) October 1, 2015
UK-Saudi “secret deal” to join UN human rights body, cables show [Financial Times]
The four new laws that came out yesterday that you should know about [The Independent]
Cruel and increasingly unusual: A troubled execution illustrates why the death penalty’s days may be numbered [The Economist]
Legal aid cuts are forcing one of the UK’s largest providers of mental health legal services to consult on potential redundancies [Law Society Gazette]
David Allen Green: The importance of law libraries — and the continued threat to Inner Temple library [Jack of Kent blog]
British vapers launch legal fightback against European laws which could BAN popular e-cigarettes [The Mirror]
“Often I feel like an idiot talking to her”: George Clooney jokes about comparisons between him and his human rights lawyer wife Amal [Mail Online]
Senior Australian government solicitor admits to dealing ice and blames a break-up for his drug addiction spiralling out of control [Mail Online]
Why are lawyers so good at sex? [Above the Law]
Herbert Smith Freehills: Winter Vacation Scheme applications open [Legal Cheek Hub]
“The easiest way to reach the top of a field is to find the field with the lowest level of competition. If you do something nobody else does, it’s easy to be the best at it.” [Legal Cheek Comments]
