The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Professionals who do legal work for gangsters face prosecution under new offence [The Independent]
Solicitors more diverse than society, profession-wide survey shows [Legal Futures]
Is everything OK, Eddie? [Stobartbarristers.co.uk]
There is an online novel about English lawyers that is currently being written [Lawyers: An Odyssey]
Barrister crowned Bolton’s top new comedian [Bolton News]
Louisiana shelves execution secrecy law [The Guardian]
Judge prevents Theresa May sending asylum-seeker back to lawless Somalia [The Independent]
Spanish High Court judge resigns after running a red light on his motorcycle without a helmet [Bloomberg]
DAC Beachcroft plans 65 redundancies with Manchester closure [Law Society Gazette]
A conversation with John Grisham [Above the Law]
Heard in court [Facebook]
“This cannot be taken seriously? There is no such thing as ‘British law'” [Legal Cheek Comments]