The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Former Southampton University law student conned her employer out of £17,000 to pay for luxury wedding and honeymoon [Evening Standard]
Chimpanzees given same rights as unlawfully detained prisoners by US court [The Telegraph]
Axiom UK: Legal firm to double its Belfast workforce [BBC News]
The debate over human rights law [Full Fact]
Civil litigation the board game — (a work in progress) [Twitter]
Never quite finished this during #bptc revision can @legalcheek find someone to finish the job? Hasbro perhaps? pic.twitter.com/W1G0DN3Kwc
— Tom Barker (@ThomasWBarker) April 21, 2015
Financial worker is facing a jail term for embezzling £176,696 from one of Scotland’s top legal firms [BBC News]
Dechert’s Miriam Gonzalez reveals secret life as a Nigella Lawson-style food blogger to teach her children how to cook [Mail Online]
How cute are George and Amal Clooney in these pics? [InStyle.co.uk]
At 18, Filipino achiever set to become Australia’s youngest lawyer [Inquirer.net]
Law GIF [Facebook]
“That comparison point of 2012 almost exactly replicates the year that private universities were allowed for the first time access to the publicly funded student loans system.” [Legal Cheek Comments]