The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Doughty Street barrister Amal Alamuddin is one of three legal experts who will investigate possible human rights and international law violations in Gaza [Time]
George Clooney’s British barrister fiancee turns down UN offer to help probe “war crimes” by Israel and Hamas in Gaza [Mail Online]
North Korea to publish human rights report promising “rosy future” [The Guardian]
Judge extends ban on Ohio executions [BBC News]
Clifford Chance keeps on 75% of qualifiers [The Lawyer]
Law change needed to save pubs, says Campaign for Real Ale [BBC News]
Prolific lawyer knocked over L-plater and tried to strangle him [The Daily Telegraph]
John Cooper QC reviews the last two executions in England 50 years ago [ulawtv on YouTube]
Legal legacy of 1914’s “boy soldiers” [Law Society Gazette]
Can you be a lawyer and a bikini model at the same time? [Above the Law]
Heard in court [Facebook]
“It does seem a bit rich to prosecute someone for not telling one part of the government that you have told another part of the government something.” [Legal Cheek Comments]