The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Nottingham Trent law student, 19, found dead in her university halls room after breaking up with her boyfriend [Mail Online]
Iranian killer’s execution halted at last minute by victim’s parents [The Guardian]
McJustice! Lawyer offers McDonald’s burger “bribe” to get woman to attend court [The Sentinel]
Legal Cheek podcast guest Vanessa Knowles tells the Daily Mail how she covers her law school costs by stripping online [Mail Online]
“We are changing the profile from the irascible, crusty old judge”: Katharine, 42, is welcomed to the bench [Norwich Evening News]
Call for legal market reforms as more litigants are supported in court by unregulated and often unqualified representatives [The Guardian]
Legal aid solidarity: the end of the affair [Law Society Gazette]
Saudi Arabia jails lawyer and human rights activist in ongoing crackdown on dissent [Amnesty International]
22 celebrities you’d forgotten have criminal records [BuzzFeed]
Heard in court [Facebook]
“It is so unfair and hard for criminal barristers at the junior end, and everyone is fighting over scraps of work” [Legal Cheek Comments]
