The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
The government is to press ahead with a cut in fees for solicitors in criminal legal aid cases, but has shelved similar plans for barristers [BBC News]
Miscarriages of justice will result from fresh cuts to legal aid budget, say solicitors [The Independent]
Judge rejects Alan Yentob bid for trawl of Mirror Group emails [The Guardian]
Game of Thrones shows why we need lawyers [Twitter]
Game of Thrones continues to show what a world with (almost) no lawyers ends up like.
— Jack of Kent (@JackofKent) June 10, 2015
What is the Psychoactive Substance Bill? Proposed ban on ‘legal highs’ could lead to imprisonment for sellers [The Mirror]
Tintin in the law courts: adventure of the previously unseen 73-year-old letter [The Guardian]
Top Scots lawyer facing trial over A9 crash death of his own family and tourist [Daily Record]
Lionel Messi’s latest appeal against tax trial rejected by Barcelona court [ESPN]
US judge jails pizza shop owner for being “self-centred jerk” during jury selection [wxpi.com]
Law GIF [Facebook]
Intellectual property paralegal sought for leading international law firm [Legal Cheek Jobs]
“In my view both the code of conduct and my honour as a barrister mean that I should never deliberately break the law.” [Legal Cheek Comments]