The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Poppers “not part of legal highs ban” [BBC News]
Obama nominates Merrick Garland, DC appeals court judge, to Supreme Court [The Guardian]
Merrick Garland, President Obama’s sensible Supreme Court choice [The New Yorker]
Budget 2016: MoJ to relocate staff outside London [Law Society Gazette]
Take it from a QC — you won’t get away with murder: Technology has transformed police work over the past 20 years, and leaves killers no hiding place [The Spectator]
Amal Clooney describes how her family were forced to flee to Europe as their homeland was ravaged by civil war during a meeting with Syrian refugees [The Independent]
Release prisoners on temporary licence to spend time with their families, Michael Gove says [The Telegraph]
Syrian law student refugee has been stuck in a Turkish airport for a year and forced to live in the “Problematic Passengers Room” [Mail Online]
Thief has sentence cut for foul-mouthed outburst at court judge [News & Star]
“Seems like a no-brainer to me why this happens — CC savages its NQs with 1900+ billables at a 70k salary, comparable to other internationals across the City.” [Legal Cheek Comments]