The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Expats in Europe lose High Court battle to vote in referendum [The Telegraph]
UK nominees for judge at European court of human rights revealed [The Guardian]
Show you care about the child refugees, rebel barrister MP tells Tories: Backbencher uses letter to plead with his colleagues to back a change in the law [Mail Online]
Criminal lawyer is suing the NHS for £1.5million claiming he suffered a rare medical reaction from the needle prick when he donated blood [Mail Online]
Six refugee families win legal action after being refused UK admission [The Express]
Russia and the Panama papers: The lawyer and the cellist [The Economist]
The Sun to face legal action over claims of phone hacking after High Court judge gives go-ahead [Jack of Kent]
Arrests and police injuries in France labour law protests [BBC News]
A juror selected for a child sex abuse case “waltzed off”, later telling Hull Crown Court she “didn’t like the type of case” she was expected to sit through [Hull Daily Mail]
IT and Marketing Assistant (University 12 Month Placement) sought by leading commercial barristers’ chambers [Legal Cheek Hub]
“To be clear, I am not critical of the innocence movement — I think it it is an exciting and radical idea. It is at a cross-roads and I hope universities stick with a brilliant project — if they walk away that would be a disaster.” [Legal Cheek comments]
