Morning round-up: Wednesday 20 May

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By Thomas Connelly on

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

newspapers4‘Gay cake’ row: Judge rules against Ashers bakery [BBC News]

Katie Hopkins and Jack Monroe embroiled in Twitter row as the cook threatens to sue the columnist [The Independent]

‘Sexist’ law allowing only men to pass property to their family still being used — despite being abolished [The Mirror]

Phil Shiner interview: A righter of wrongs in Iraq — or the worst kind of ambulance chaser? [The Independent]

George Galloway referred to police by MP expenses watchdog after complaint by former PA [Independent]

Sex and the selfie generation [Halsbury’s Law Exchange]

Paedophile has sentence reduced because his six-year-old victim ‘was showing signs of being gay’ in Argentina [Mail Online]

Amal Clooney “struggling with negative press coverage” [Film-News]

DJ Steve Aoki being sued for breaking girl’s neck during a crowd surf [UniLad]

Law GIF [Facebook]

Law graduate/Paralegal sought for leading Leeds law firm [Legal Cheek Jobs]

The Law Hawk swoops in [Legal Cheek Comments]