The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Court to decide on domestic abuse legal aid challenge [BBC News]
Chris Grayling: leftist critiques of the prison system bear no relation to reality [The Guardian]
Criminal attacked his former solicitor when they found themselves in a police custody suite together [The Press]
Barrister read the lyrics to the Shaggy hit It Wasn’t Me during his closing speech in a £1.3m drugs conspiracy trial [Oxford Mail]
Lawyer charged with £1 million stamp duty scam [Leicester Mercury]
Partners decamp as US law firms battle it out in London [Financial Times]
Cher sued by choreographer claiming racial discrimination [Mail Online]
‘Happy’ Iranians sentenced to six months and 91 lashes for viral video [BuzzFeed]
‘Given how this type of aggressive marketing is now directed at getting children in to crippling amounts of debt it would be great if *somebody* other than Legal Cheek gave a **** about what these shysters are up to’ [Legal Cheek comments]
Renowned legal 200 firm seeking clinical negligence paralegal in Somerset [Legal Cheek Jobs]
Heard in court [Facebook]
