The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Shami Chakrabarti: Poetry is a perfect form to challenge human rights abuses [The Guardian]
The Human Rights Act is no friend of freedom [Spiked]
Judge quits amid claims he let people off for sex and took nude pics of defendants after bondage sessions [The Mirror]
The internet’s war on free speech [The Spectator]
Ignore David Cameron’s corruption claims, judge tells jury in bribery case [The Guardian]
London receptionist “sent home for not wearing heels” [BBC News]
Is it legal to force women to wear high heels at work? [BBC News]
‘Gay cake’ would have been provided if not for the word ‘gay’, court hears [BBC News]
How do I decide what type of lawyer I want to be? [The Guardian]
Germany is set to annul the convictions of gay men under a law criminalising homosexuality that was applied zealously in post-war Germany [BBC News]
Applications open for training contracts at Herbert Smith Freehills [Legal Cheek Hub]
“Setting expectations in stone when you’re at uni is a dangerous game…” [Legal Cheek comments]