The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Health and safety lawyer calls for limit on the number of holidaymakers in the sea at any one time at popular Cornwall beach “before something bad happens” [Mail Online]
Premier League lawyers will not sue fans over “pirated” Vine videos [The Lawyer]
“Just when you think it’s safe to take a business call”: Brooklyn lawyer wearing high heels and dress chases down and catches teenage mugger who stole her iPhone [Mail Online]
Who said judges were behind the times? [Twitter]
Judge warns jurors ahead of trial not to use 'chatlines or MySpace' to tell people about the case.
Feel like I've been time warped to 2005
— CourtNewsUK (@CourtNewsUK) August 18, 2014
Should anti-tattoo discrimination be illegal? [BBC News Magazine]
A judge has spoken out after having to adjourn a £10,000-a-day trial when he heard that one of the defendants had not had his legal aid confirmed [Shropshire Star]
A £15m magistrates’ court built six years ago is running at under a quarter capacity, solicitors claim [BBC News]
Artist in court over images of children in installation [The Guardian]
Barrister siphoned more than $1.23 million from an elderly man’s bank accounts and used some of the cash to buy cars for women [The Age]
Heard in court [Facebook]
“To think the Aussies and Cannuks saved us for this! For the right to have wigs and medieval titles. Lord Vader would be ashamed.” [Legal Cheek Comments]