The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Solicitor gets stuck in loo at Southampton Magistrates’ Court for nearly two hours [Daily Echo]
Solicitor suffers head injuries in fall down pub stairs while in nurse’s outfit on his stag do [London Evening Standard]
Woman convicted of assault for throwing water out of her window [UK Crime Law Blog]
Idiot signs, cross-dressing, date nights: 10 bizarre sentences handed out by judges in court [The Telegraph]
Judge defies the rules by jailing woman for contempt of court in secret because naming her will lead to her daughter being identified [Mail Online]
Disgraced solicitor must pay £2,500 to colleague he sexually assaulted at party [Belfast Telegraph]
Chris Grayling roof protester on top of court building — on day of trial [getSurrey]
Grayling: I’m the first impartial lord chancellor in 400 years [Politics.co.uk]
The US Justice Department is to pay a woman $134,000 (£88,640) after making a fake Facebook page that contained a photograph of her half-clothed [BBC News]
Paralegal required for highly respected Henley firm [Legal Cheek Jobs]
Heard in court [Facebook]
“Following on from the decision the BSB have a lot of work to do and are fully committed to the task at hand. I am sure they have already set up a newly designated policy group and recruited at least 4 individuals in order to realign their comprehension matrix.” [Legal Cheek Comments]