The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
New solicitor general guilty of misconduct over race hate trial — but he didn’t tell the PM: ‘Professional misconduct’ after illicitly getting case notes involving school where he was governor [Mail Online]
Malaysia Airlines crash: Top British lawyer John Allen killed alongside his wife and three sons [The Mirror]
In memory of John Allen [NautaDutilh]
Why straight-As aren’t good enough for Oxbridge [The Telegraph]
Thug threatens lunges at and threatens to kills prosecutor during courtroom rant [Chronicle Live]
Think Britain’s tabloid journalists are bad? Try Italy’s tabloid judges [The Spectator]
Op Cotton QC banks over double legal aid rates [Law Society Gazette]
Financials 2013/14: partner revenues reach new heights as market swings back into action [The Lawyer]
Chris Grayling vows to “slay the health and safety culture” [Mail Online]
‘Glee’ may be renamed for British viewers because of copyright [The Telegraph]
Lawyer set fire to home after it was repossessed [The Scotsman]
Heard in court [Facebook]
“Having been on a number of vac schemes, at both MC and SC firms, the overwhelming majority of students are from Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, UCL, Durham, etc. On one MC VS, there were not even any students from Warwick or Nottingham, let alone former polytechnics.” [Legal Cheek Comments]