The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal Aid Barrister of the Year: ‘it’s a very dangerous world to be gay in’ [The Guardian]
Better Call Saul: Everything we know about the Breaking Bad spin-off so far [The Independent]
Judge casts feuding couple in ‘Breaking Bad Parents’ [The Hamilton Spectator]
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange loses legal bid to have arrest warrant issued in Sweden for alleged sex offences cancelled [Mail Online]
Lindsay Sandiford loses legal funding bid but court urges review in death row case [The Telegraph]
Charles Russell and Speechly Bircham merge [The Lawyer]
More than 19,000 more parents appeared in civil courts with no lawyer in cases about children, in the year after legal aid cuts, it has emerged. [BBC News]
MPs grill Lloyds executive over ‘law firm’ debt letters [Law Society Gazette]
Deaf jurors serve in mock trial as part of ground-breaking research [Sydney Morning Herald]
Heard in court [Facebook]
“Barristers can be extremely snotty and arrogant. The truth is that most of them are deadly jealous that it isn’t them being appointed AG, and it kills many of them.” [Legal Cheek Comments]