The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Michael Gove fails to mention Human Rights Act in Conservative Party Conference speech [The Independent]
Sainsbury’s uses legal loophole to keep part of new 5p “charity” charge for plastic bags [The Telegraph]
An activist from the United Arab Emirates has won the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders [BBC News]
Come on Edward, a gavel for a European case? [Twitter]
Europe's high court just struck down a major law routinely abused for surveillance. We are all safer as a result. pic.twitter.com/mR4hHTrTok
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 6, 2015
Top international lawyer: make climate change illegal and silence skeptics forever [Breitbart]
Francis Andrade suicide prompts CPS rape victim support pilot [BBC News]
UK’s discriminatory migrant residence tests are legal — preliminary EU ruling [The Guardian]
Bahar Mustafa: Student officer who tweeted “kill all white men” to malicious communications charges [The Independent]
Why the legal profession needs people who see the world differently — Legal Cheek live, with Lord Neuberger: Students can apply for free tickets [Legal Cheek Hub]
“This has ‘desperation’ written all over it.” [Legal Cheek Comments]