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Morning round-up: Wednesday 17 July

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Now it’s Stobart Solicitors as well after SRA grants ABS licence [Legal Futures]

Will Frankie Boyle follow Clive Stafford Smith in going hungry for Guantánamo’s detainees? [The Guardian]

Surge in university applications for law [Lawyer2B]

“They’re a disgrace to my profession”: George Zimmerman’s lawyer slams prosecutors’ tactics during Trayvon Martin murder trial [Mail Online]

Snowden afraid of torture and death in the US [Voice of Russia]

The murky world of literary libel [The Telegraph]

Judge found dead “from gunshot wound to the head” in Texas courthouse in suspected suicide [Mail Online]

Is complicity with the death penalty illegal? [UK Human Rights Blog]

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