The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Report that concluded Bar Standards Board handled complaints involving ethnic minority barristers in a “transparent, consistent and fair” way strongly attacked by equality expert [Legal Futures]
At law schools, a new crop of marijuana-themed courses [Wall Street Journal]
G4S, the company with no convictions, but does it have blood on its hands? [The Guardian]
Spanish Princess Cristina to face fraud trial [BBC News]
Human rights groups call for special prosecutor to investigate CIA torture [The Guardian]
Grayling faces new year test over legal aid [Law Society Gazette]
Pharrell Williams’ lawyer to YouTube: Remove our songs or face $1 billion lawsuit [The Hollywood Reporter]
“Is it not at all possible that, nowadays, some universities are just as good as Oxbridge in some respects?” [Legal Cheek Comments]