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• Justice of the Peace cuts produce smelly results - mySanAntonio.com

  28-10-2016 23:55 via mysanantonio.com
  
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  Justice of the Peace cuts produce smelly results
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  Former Congressman Ciro Rodriguez is the only part-time justice of the peace whose job was not eliminated by Commissioners Court. His brother is Precinct 1 County Commissioner Sergio “Chico” Rodriguez. Former Congressman Ciro Rodriguez is the only ...
  
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• Social justice is becoming a bigger issue in Germany - The Economist

  28-10-2016 23:20 via economist.com
  
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  Social justice is becoming a bigger issue in Germany
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  THE refugee crisis is not the only issue that could decide next autumn's election of the Bundestag. If Germany's three left-wing parties get their wish, social justice may become just as contentious. The Social Democrats (who currently govern as junior ...
  
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• US supreme court to rule if transgender teen can use boys' bathroom

  28-10-2016 22:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Justices will hear the appeal from a Virginia school board about whether 17-year-old Gavin Grimm will be able to use the boys’ restroom at his high schoolThe supreme court will take up transgender rights for the first time in the case of a Virginia school board that wants to prevent a transgender teenager from using the boys’ bathroom at his high school. The justices said on Friday they will hear the appeal from the Gloucester County school board some time next year. The order means
  
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• Uber ruling is a massive boost for a fairer jobs market

  28-10-2016 21:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Employment tribunal judge’s ruling will send shockwaves through companies using the same business modelYaseen Aslam. James Farrar. Remember those two names, because they are giant-killers. This summer the men took on not just one £50bn multinational, but an entire business model. On Friday, they won.As minicab drivers for Uber, Aslam and Farrar were deemed to be self-employed. The status meant they were denied the most basic rights that other workers take: no minimum wage, no sick pa
  
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• The Guardian view on the gig economy: obligations not excuses to workers are needed | Editorial

  28-10-2016 20:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Judges were right to say that the on-demand industry has not turned our concept of work upside down. Ducking out of paying benefits is not a fair route to profitsIn the tech-utopia of the on-demand economy it is said all can have prizes. Those providing the services in this brave new world supposedly hail the freedom of flexible hours and benefit from the surge-pricing that allows them to hike charges as demand rises. Customers, say the futurologists, love the convenience. There’s no doubt
  
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• Kenya leads the way in bringing poachers to justice - The Independent

  28-10-2016 20:53 via independent.co.uk
  
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  Kenya leads the way in bringing poachers to justice
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  Kenya has sent a strong message that it will no longer tolerate wildlife crime by convicting an ivory poaching 'king pin' called Feisal Mohamed Ali. Together with two other recent landmark rulings in north central Kenya, this conviction signifies a new ...
  
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• Justice League Dark Will Turn The Comic Book Genre On Its Head, So Swears The Director - Cinema Blend

  28-10-2016 20:27 via cinemablend.com
  
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  Justice League Dark Will Turn The Comic Book Genre On Its Head, So Swears The Director
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  Modern comic book movies tend to rely on certain tried and true structures to work. Wade Wilson said it best in Deadpool; there are origin stories, and more lucrative ensemble films. However, a fundamentally different superhero movie like Justice ...
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• $25K grant boosts Albany's Center for Law & Justice - Albany Times Union

  28-10-2016 20:14 via timesunion.com
  
  $25K grant boosts Albany's Center for Law & Justice
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  ALBANY — The Center for Law and Justice, which assists former prisoners in transitioning to civilian life and addresses other criminal justice issues, has received a $25,000 grant as an "emerging innovator." The grant was presented by the New York ...
  
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• The fight to punish US police killings: ‘We missed an opportunity to stop him'

  28-10-2016 19:33 via theguardian.com
  
  In 2011, Virginia police officer Stephen Rankin shot an unarmed man dead. Last year he did it again. The fight to get him convicted is the subject of a new filmKen King is a veteran of the US navy. He worked for 25 years as a policeman in southern Virginia. After retiring at the rank of lieutenant, he took command of a military unit guarding the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay.King does not, therefore, conform to the Donald Trump caricature of those who protest against killings by police of
  
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• Justice Department Alleges Ex-NSA Contractor Stole Names of US Spies - Wall Street Journal

  28-10-2016 19:23 via wsj.com
  
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  Justice Department Alleges Ex-NSA Contractor Stole Names of US Spies
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  The Justice Department has told a federal judge that a former National Security Agency contractor took home records containing the names of U.S. spies working undercover, information that is considered among the nation's most sensitive and closely held ...and more »
  
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• Uber driver hails landmark tribunal ruling

  28-10-2016 19:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Huge growth in driver numbers and forcing down of fares made it impossible to make a living, claims tribunal plaintiff Asif HanifWhen Asif Hanif signed up to work for Uber just over two years ago, he says that like other new drivers he was promised he would be earning £500 a week. Related: Uber loses right to classify UK drivers as self-employedContinue reading...
  
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• Uber ruling ‘an enormous decision’ says employment lawyer – video

  28-10-2016 18:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Richard Fox, a senior solicitor and head of Kingsley Napley Solicitors, hails the legal ruling in favour of two Uber drivers that they should be classified as workers, not as self-employed. Speaking on Friday, Fox says employment law is now catching up with the way people work and emphasises that this is a comprehensive decision with further ramifications likely to happen. With drivers classified as workers, not as self-employed, Uber must now pay the national living wage
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• When tabloids publish and don’t give a damn | Letters

  28-10-2016 18:31 via theguardian.com
  
  As a solicitor contacted by a friend of one of the men arrested in connection with the alleged plot in 2002 to kidnap Victoria Beckham, and asked to represent him, I recall when I attended Charing Cross police station where the suspects were being held following their arrest, finding to my surprise that the police that day knew about as much about the case as I did, or possibly a little less, as I’d had the advantage of reading the story splashed across the News of the World that morn
  
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• Marine A case wait mean 'justice delayed' say supporters - Telegraph.co.uk

  28-10-2016 18:24 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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  Marine A case wait mean 'justice delayed' say supporters
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  A Royal Marine imprisoned for murdering a wounded Taliban captive is being denied justice because of delays in reviewing his case, his supporters have said as they protested outside Parliament. Around 800 supporters of Alexander Blackman including ...and more »
  
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• Marine A case review wait means delay to justice say supporters - Telegraph.co.uk

  28-10-2016 18:23 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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  Marine A case review wait means delay to justice say supporters
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  A Royal Marine imprisoned for murdering a wounded Taliban captive is being denied justice because of delays in reviewing his case, his supporters have said as they protested outside Parliament. Around 800 supporters of Alexander Blackman including ...and more »
  
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• Uber tribunal judges criticise 'fictions' and 'twisted language'

  28-10-2016 17:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Judges who ruled that Uber drivers are not self-employed make scathing assessment of the companyThe employment tribunal judges who ruled that the Uber drivers are not self-employed and should be paid the “national living wage” were scathing in their assessment of the company. Among the most unequivocal sections of the judgment were the following:Any organisation ... resorting in its documentation to fictions, twisted language and even brand new terminology, merits, we think, a degree
  
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• Uber’s defeat shows it doesn’t have to be a rigged economy | Frances O’Grady

  28-10-2016 16:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The gains from new technology must be fairly shared. To that end, unions will continue to hold the likes of Uber and Deliveroo to accountThe case brought against Uber by a group of its drivers has exposed the dark side of the gig economy. For many workers this is a rigged economy, where bosses can weasel out of paying the minimum wage or providing basics such as holiday pay and rest breaks. Related: Uber loses right to classify UK drivers as self-employedContinue reading...
  
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• Uber loses right to classify UK drivers as self-employed

  28-10-2016 16:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Landmark employment tribunal ruling states firm must also pay drivers national living wage and holiday pay with huge implications for gig economyDrivers for Uber have won a landmark case after employment tribunal judges ruled that they were not self-employed and should be paid the “national living wage”.The case, taken by two workers, could open up the tech firm to claims from all of its 40,000 drivers in the UK, and force other companies with tens of thousands of workers in the so-c
  
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• New studies suggest continuing decrease in court reporting

  28-10-2016 15:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Two pieces of research, one an editors’ survey and another about content, raise the alarm about the lack of reporting of British courts One of the recurring concerns in recent years has been about whether local newspapers are carrying out one of their key public service functions: the coverage of courts.In 2009, there were four separate claims that papers were failing to report court cases adequately. The Press Association’s managing director, Tony Watson, told a committee of MPs loo
  
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• Homelessness can only really be tackled if people have somewhere to go | Poppy Noor

  28-10-2016 13:32 via theguardian.com
  
  As long as housing is treated as commodity not a right, changes to the law – like Bob Blackman’s bill – will only help so muchWhen I first told the council I was homeless I was 16. It was cold, dark and I was alone. I didn’t have any belongings, but I had been staying at friends’ houses so I was clean and hadn’t been sleeping rough. I was forced to declare myself homeless when a brick was thrown through a friend’s window by a family member, and their saf
  
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• Belfast court rejects two challenges to Brexit

  28-10-2016 12:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Judge says high court does not have power to overturn political decisions but his ruling will not prejudice other challenges Two of the first legal challenges to Brexit have been rejected by a Belfast courtA high court judge ruled that the Good Friday agreement in 1998 cannot be used to grant Northern Ireland exemption from the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. Related: Article 50 legal case 'is attempt to reverse Brexit', court toldContinue reading...
  
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• Uber awaits tribunal ruling over drivers' status as workers

  28-10-2016 12:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Union cases demanding basic employment rights and paid holidays could affect 40,000 cabbies in the UKAn employment tribunal in London will decide whether Uber drivers should be treated as workers with basic employment rights, in a case that could affect tens of thousands of other people working across the gig economy.The test cases have been brought by the GMB union on behalf of two Uber drivers who argue that the cab-hailing firm is breaching the law by failing to provide them with basic employ
  
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• Denis O’Brien wants US legal expert to give evidence on Irish law

  28-10-2016 10:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Media magnate tries to persuade judge that American law professor should present 60-page report to assist his case against Ireland’s parliament Denis O’Brien, the Irish media magnate with a Maxwellian penchant for litigation, has come up with a wonderful wheeze to aid his legal action against Ireland’s parliamentHe wants the Dublin high court to accept opinions advanced by an expert in US constitutional law.Continue reading...
  
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• Record levels of assault, abduction and torture reported in Zimbabwe

  28-10-2016 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  NGO records hundreds of cases of political violence, which it says are mostly perpetrated by state security forcesPolitical violence in Zimbabwe has increased dramatically in 2016, with record levels of assault, abduction and torture recorded as opposition to Robert Mugabe’s 36-year rule escalates. Around 654 cases of political violence were recorded by a local NGO, the Counselling Services Unit (CSU), as of 21 October, compared to 476 cases in the whole of 2015.Related: Zimbabwe protests
  
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• High Court judge Susan Kiefel favourite to land chief justice role - The Sydney Morning Herald

  28-10-2016 06:07 via smh.com.au
  
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  High Court judge Susan Kiefel favourite to land chief justice role
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  The High Court could soon have its first female chief justice with sitting judge Susan Kiefel firming as the favourite to take over from Robert French, amid speculation he will leave the bench in early December. Justice Kiefel, a former judge of the ...and more »
  
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• FOIP commissioner orders investigation of Alberta Justice - CBC.ca

  28-10-2016 05:25 via cbc.ca
  
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  FOIP commissioner orders investigation of Alberta Justice
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  Alberta's freedom of information commissioner has ordered an investigation into whether Alberta Justice wilfully attempted to mislead or obstruct the commissioner, or altered or falsified a record to evade FOIP requests. In ordering the investigation ...
  
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