The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Lee Rigby killer sues Prison Service after having teeth knocked out [The Guardian]
Lord Janner’s legal fight against child sex abuse allegations being funded by taxpayer [The Mirror]
The only Liberal Democrat MP in Scotland has survived a crowd-funded legal attempt to have him ousted from his seat [The Independent]
Philip Hammond: Promoting human rights is not about who can shout the loudest [Voices]
Mail on Sunday in six-week legal battle to expose Duncan Bannatyne divorce papers [Press Gazette]
FIFA medical chief to support Eva Carneiro in legal claim against Chelsea and Jose Mourinho [Evening Standard]
The seven tweets that could cost a Chinese human rights lawyer eight years in jail [Quartz]
Russia passes law allowing them to ignore international human rights decisions [Pink News]
New US law could ask Twitter and Facebook to report ‘terrorist activity’ [BBC News]
Applications now being accepted for Slaughter and May’ first year open days [Legal Cheek Hub]
“The modern desire to ‘ban’ or hurt anyone who you disagree with is unhelpful. We really need to address this one. It is linked to cases like Proudman.” [Legal Cheek Comments]