The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts
Andy Coulson could face £750,000 legal bill for phone hacking trial [The Guardian]
Lord Chief Justice worried about paucity of new QCs from outside London [Legal Futures]
Joshua Rozenberg: Defendants should be allowed to waive their right to trial by jury [The Guardian]
Murderer’s rape confession means the wrong man has been behind bars for twelve years [The Independent]
Lawyer loses £4.25m damages claim over stolen da Vinci [Herald Scotland]
Woman who cried rape struggling to find lawyer willing to represent her [The Press and Journal]
Shouldering the cost of the Baby Boomer legacy is destroying my generation’s prospects [New Statesman]
When millennials rule the world of law [Above the Law]
Law GIF [Facebook]
Law graduates with September 2016 or later training contracts sought for global investment bank [Legal Cheek Jobs]
“I’ve come to the conclusion that the bar doesn’t actually care about its own survival or secretly agrees with the government on the recent reforms.” [Legal Cheek Comments]