The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Unpaid interns charged £300 for a job reference by thinktank [The Observer]
All the ways Doughty Street barrister Amal Clooney was the best thing about the Golden Globes 2015 [Marie Claire]
The Charlie Hebdo massacre raises awkward questions for free speech in Ireland [Vice]
“A Saudi law student can progress quickly to handing out daily amputations, crucifixions and whippings once he has become a judge” [The Telegraph]
Chris Grayling spends £72,000 of taxpayers’ money to defend “unlawful” prison book ban [The Independent]
Tory MP wants to scrap Human Rights Act, because Charlie Hebdo [i100]
US moves to liberalise are “just the beginning” [Law Society Gazette]
Joshua Rozenberg: What makes this man the world’s most feared lawyer? [The Jewish Chronicle]
Commercial property paralegal at Legal 500 firm in Southampton [Legal Cheek Jobs]
Heard in court [Facebook]
“The cab rank rule is a matter of ethos and attitude, not of practical regulation. But it is shameful that the Law Society should suggest that the ethos can be abandoned” [Legal Cheek Comments]