The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
The party’s over at the Royal Courts of Justice as it ends “disruptive” events [Evening Standard]
Dechert partner Miriam González Durántez says fathers who look after children have “more cojones” [The Guardian]
Profile: Miriam González Durántez, lawyer [The Independent]
Everyone’s tweeting photos of police brutality thanks to a failed NYPD hashtag [Vice]
Women partner promotions double at magic circle [Law Society Gazette]
This is a picture (taken legally) that shows a Judge passing a sentence of death on a defendant [Twitter]
Defendant was the poisoner Frederick Seddon sentenced to death in 1912 at the Old Bailey. Image composite of 2 pics pic.twitter.com/1OvKb4DSVz
— CrimeLine.info® (@CrimeLineLaw) April 23, 2014
International artists join campaign to overturn UK prison book ban [The Guardian]
Singing barrister leads youths to UK’s only Gospel Summit [The Voice]
More UK students consider study abroad, poll suggests [BBC News]
Heard in court [Facebook]
“I always considered that Leech & Co was a suitably evocative name for a firm that specialises in whiplash claims” [Legal Cheek Comments]
