The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Fracking protest groups consider legal action [BBC News]
Woman challenges decision to stop her using dead daughter’s eggs to have child [Belfast Telegraph]
UK refugee status granted to ex-Maldives president and Amal Clooney client Mohamed Nasheed [International Business Times]
No need to cancel the “hot date” says judge [Twitter]
Judge tells jury the days of staying as a group all night outside of court are gone, adding: 'You don't need to cancel a hot date tomorrow.'
— CourtNewsUK (@CourtNewsUK) May 24, 2016
Draconian extreme pornography laws should be whipped into shape [City A.M.]
PayPal billionaire co-founder Peter Thiel ‘bankrolled’ Hulk Hogan’s legal battle against Gawker, report claims [Mail Online]
Myanmar court convicts man over penis tattoo poem [The Guardian]
Applications are open for mini-pupillage positions at 2 Temple Gardens [Legal Cheek Hub]
“Clearly the answer is to end this unfantile identity politics. Anyone who prefaces a remark with “as a” anything should be met with equal derision and scorn. Ideas and arguments stand or fall on their own merits. Feelings are for children.” [Legal Cheek comments]