Morning round-up: Tuesday 9 June

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By Thomas Connelly on

The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts

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Oscar Pistorius to be released on parole in August [The Telegraph]

Supreme court to consider impact of fraud in divorce settlements [The Guardian]

Gateley float raises £30m [Law Society Gazette]

Alton Towers bosses face paying out millions in compensation as they admit full blame [Mail Online]

Jennifer Lopez sued for “tarnishing women’s honor” after raunchy Morocco gig sparks outrage [The Independent]

Footballer turned lawyer joins Brodies [Daily Record]

Tennessee lawyer tries to hire hitman to kill wife [Sun Times]

Game of Thrones legal update: Laws against infanticide are… kind of new in Western thought-eros [Above the Law]

Law GIF [Facebook]

Property litigation paralegal required at well respected Legal 500 firm [Legal Cheek Jobs]

“Did you know that if you took all the bottles of mineral water that Foxtons keeps in its agencies and poured them into the Thames that London would be totally underwater as far as Richmond?” [Legal Cheek Comments]