The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
High Court judge bans strike action on Southern and Gatwick trains [Evening Standard]
Humanists threaten further legal action over ‘unlawful’ Religious Studies GCSE syllabus [The Independent]
Facebook, Google and Twitter ‘face growing legal claims in Ireland’ [The Guardian]
Hanged? [Twitter]
Overheard in Court:
"Speaking of suspended sentences, the last people to be hanged in this country were from here…."
Defendant: HANGED?
— DefenceGirl (@DefenceGirl) June 3, 2016
Legal Name Fraud: What is ‘the truth’ behind mysterious billboards popping up over UK? [Mirror]
Scottish Parliament votes for total fracking ban [The Independent]
Madonna wins Vogue copyright case in US appeal court [The Guardian]
Trump says judge’s Mexican ancestry is ‘inherent conflict of interest’ because ‘the wall’ [The Slatest]
Praying mantis species named after US Supreme Court Justice [BBC News]
Applications are currently being accepted for training contracts commencing in 2018 at Slaughter and May [Legal Cheek Hub]
“In one interview I poured myself a glass of water but accidentally overfilled it, resulting in some spillage. I quickly quipped ‘Sorry, I always give 110%’. I was offered pupillage on the spot.” [Legal Cheek comments]