The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Italian murder trial is stopped after judge spots court staff having sex [Mail Online]
DLA Piper forgives partner in Scudamore email scandal as he says: “I let myself, my firm and its clients down” [The Lawyer]
Dundas & Wilson solicitor dodges prison after knocking down and killing pensioner [Daily Record]
Transgender woman in landmark legal battle to force government to “forget” her identity as a man before sex change [Mail Online]
#OpCotton judgment to be announced shortly [Twitter]
#OpCotton appeal (fraud/legal aid) judgment will be handed down *this morning* at 10am.
Read original ruling: http://t.co/sy0krF2R4H
— Jack of Kent (@JackofKent) May 21, 2014
Phone-hacking trial: No smoking gun, says Brooks lawyer [BBC News]
“Dear piece of shit…” Life360 CEO sends a refreshingly direct response to a patent troll [Pando Daily]
Amal Alamuddin has lunch [Mail Online]
Hogan Lovells mulls joining the blind CV rush [Lawyer2B]
Joshua Rozenberg: Boris Johnson sent £75m bill for London riots’ Sony warehouse fire [The Guardian]
Heard in court [Facebook]
“If she is not practising, then I see no problem at all – she is no different from all the other ‘Barrister (NP)’ types” [Legal Cheek Comments]
