The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Leigh Day solicitor who destroyed key document at centre of inquiry into the actions of the British Armed forces in Iraq is being investigated by the solicitors’ watchdog [The Telegraph]
Chris Grayling blocks inquiry into sexual assaults inside jails [The Independent]
Chris Huhne: Yes I was guilty, but I was prosecuted on the basis of Constance Briscoe’s deception [The Guardian]
QC expresses sympathy for Huhne [Twitter]
BEST comment below that Chris Huhne piece RT @seanjones11kbw I just couldn’t resist… pic.twitter.com/9t48qX6y1V
— Anya (@anyabike) May 5, 2014
Tweeting Staffordshire Police did not take legal advice over controversial #drinkdrivers hashtag [The Sentinel]
Oscar Pistorius’s trial resumes as defence tries to rebuild credibility [The Guardian]
Amal Alamuddin faces a very different engagement in Libya trial [The Observer]
Yet another criminal Bar Downfall parody [YouTube]
“Happy World Press Freedom Day!”: What Egyptian judge tells journalist held on terror charges after he makes desperate plea from his cage [Mail Online]
Cardiff City, Fulham and Norwich City consider legal battle against relegation from the Premier League [The Telegraph]
Barbara Hewson: Clifford’s sentence has little to do with justice [Spiked]
“No informed person could possibly believe that the BPTC is a useful course” [Legal Cheek Comments]