The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Social media mass surveillance is permitted by law, says top UK official [The Guardian]
Barrister vilified for grilling a sex abuse case witness who later committed suicide has been banned from driving — despite claiming she feared reprisals on public transport [Manchester Evening News]
Google: Two million legal searches made every day in UK [Legal Futures]
MoJ refuses to pay compensation to man wrongly imprisoned for 17 years [The Guardian]
Tweeting wannabe lawyers beware [Twitter]
Reading #pupillage applications. A very high number of names familiar from Twitter this year….
#deleteyourdrunktweetsnow
— Mark Harries (@MRHarries) June 16, 2014
Ebenezer Scrooge on “Magna Carta Day” [Jack of Kent]
Whose Magna Carta is it anyway? [UK Human Rights Blog]
Why we must fix our spying laws [The Telegraph]
American conservatives taunt Muslim law student for asking question at Benghazi panel [Huffington Post]
Film student sues for $2 billion claiming creators of Men in Black III stole his homework to finish blockbuster [TMZ]
Heard in court [Facebook]
“It’s a trick! Wear a suit because everyone else will be” [Legal Cheek comments]