The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
“We’re like health insurance”: Bob Odenkirk shows you’ll always need a lawyer in teaser for Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul [Mail Online]
Doughty Street barrister Amal Alamuddin is one of three legal experts who will investigate possible human rights and international law violations in Gaza [Time]
George Clooney’s British barrister fiancee turns down UN offer to help probe “war crimes” by Israel and Hamas in Gaza [Mail Online]
North Korea to publish human rights report promising “rosy future” [The Guardian]
Judge extends ban on Ohio executions [BBC News]
Clifford Chance keeps on 75% of qualifiers [The Lawyer]
Law change needed to save pubs, says Campaign for Real Ale [BBC News]
Prolific lawyer knocked over L-plater and tried to strangle him [The Daily Telegraph]
John Cooper QC reviews the last two executions in England 50 years ago [ulawtv on YouTube]
Legal legacy of 1914’s “boy soldiers” [Law Society Gazette]
Can you be a lawyer and a bikini model at the same time? [Above the Law]
Heard in court [Facebook]
“It does seem a bit rich to prosecute someone for not telling one part of the government that you have told another part of the government something.” [Legal Cheek Comments]
