The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
David Cameron promises to scrap Human Rights Act [The Guardian]
Five things we learned from Cameron’s human rights announcement [UK Human Rights Blog]
Scotland exempt from Tories’ Human Rights Act axe [The Scotsman]
What Cameron said about human rights today — and what he might have said instead [Head of Legal]
Found in Birmingham? [Twitter]
@JackofKent Found in Birmingham? pic.twitter.com/Rb5NaVl15o
— Tim Hill (@Tim_JR_Hill) October 1, 2014
Tesco boss tells GC and legal team to work on the shop floor [The Lawyer]
Italian couples fake UK divorce scam on an “industrial scale” [The Independent]
“Totally legal” things always morally wrong [The Daily Mash]
Hammer blow for tattoo studio as council threatens legal action over sign [The Courier]
Big law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges inks one of the priciest leases in NYC [Crain’s New York Business]
Judge appears in clothing ad despite ethics rule [Courier Journal]
Private client paralegal for large Sussex and Kent based law firm [Legal Cheek jobs]
Heard in court [Facebook]
“Your article is nothing more than a tabloid style side-swipe.” [Legal Cheek Comments]