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• Lord Chief Justice: Non-attendance at court by members of the Bar - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary

  22-06-2022 21:20
  Lord Chief Justice: Non-attendance at court by members of the Bar  Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
  
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• Shapps says RMT claim he wrecked talks ‘a total lie’ as Thursday’s rail strikes set to go ahead – as it happened

  22-06-2022 20:39
  
  This live blog is now closed.Second day of strike action to go ahead after talks fail againJohnson ‘hasn’t lifted a finger’ to solve rail strikes, says StarmerLabour frontbenchers who joined strike pickets pressed to apologiseModerna has announced that it will open a vaccine research and manufacturing centre in the UK. In a visit to mark the announcement, Sajid Javid, the health secretary, said:
  We all saw during the pandemic the differences that cutting edge vaccines and treat
  
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• Supreme Court Justice Robert Berliner resigns after being accused of an ethics violation - The Journal News

  22-06-2022 20:29
  Supreme Court Justice Robert Berliner resigns after being accused of an ethics violation  The Journal News
  
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• ‘False narrative’: campaigners say British bill of rights could undermine free speech

  22-06-2022 20:23
  
  Organisations including Index on Censorship condemn government’s claim a bill would boost freedom of expressionFree speech campaigners have condemned the UK government’s boast that the planned British bill of rights will boost freedom of expression, claiming that it will actually undermine it.The bill, published on Wednesday, says in clause 4 that on matters of free speech “a court must give great weight to the importance of protecting the right”. Continue reading...
  
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• Justice Department Finds Maine in Violation of ADA For Over-Institutionalization of Children with Disabilities - Department of Justice

  22-06-2022 19:59
  Justice Department Finds Maine in Violation of ADA For Over-Institutionalization of Children with Disabilities  Department of Justice
  
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• The Guardian view on Raab’s bill of rights: liberty bent to prejudice | Editorial

  22-06-2022 19:48
  
  Plans to make universal rights subordinate to ministerial opinion and political whim mark a backwards step for British democracyThere are two ways ministers can avoid falling foul of human rights law. One is to govern with respect for universal human rights, as codified after the second world war in response to unspeakable atrocities. The other way is to redefine those rights, making their interpretation subordinate to political expediency. Boris Johnson’s government has chosen the second
  
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• Widower wins right to have baby with embryo created with his late wife

  22-06-2022 19:47
  
  Landmark ruling allows Ted Jennings, 38, to use embryo to have child via a surrogateA 38-year-old widower has won a landmark legal case giving him the right to have a baby with a surrogate using the last remaining embryo created with his late wife.Ted Jennings and his wife, Fern-Marie Choya, had spent years trying to have children and had sought fertility treatment, but Choya died suddenly while pregnant with twin girls in 2019. The fertility regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Aut
  
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• Widower wins right to have baby using embryo created with his late wife

  22-06-2022 19:47
  
  Landmark ruling allows Ted Jennings, 38, to use embryo to have child via a surrogateA 38-year-old widower has won a landmark legal case giving him the right to have a baby with a surrogate using the last remaining embryo created with his late wife.Ted Jennings and his wife, Fern-Marie Choya, had spent years trying to have children and had sought fertility treatment, but Choya died suddenly while pregnant with twin girls in 2019. The fertility regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Aut
  
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• Greens MP calls for inquiry into botched NSW police operation against Blockade Australia

  22-06-2022 19:30
  
  Sue Higginson says ‘even inconvenient’ protesting is important for democracy and labels police response ‘extreme’ Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingA New South Wales MP has said she will push for the release of internal briefing documents relating to a botched police operation targeting environmental protesters, saying the force used by officers was “extreme”.Sue Higginson, a Greens u
  
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• Shapps says RMT claim he wrecked talks ‘a total lie’ as Thursday’s rail strikes set to go ahead – UK politics live

  22-06-2022 19:18
  
  Transport secretary accuses rail union of ‘wasting time and making false claims’Johnson ‘hasn’t lifted a finger’ to solve rail strikes, says StarmerLargest teaching union threatens strike actionUK inflation rises to 9.1%, its highest rate in 40 yearsBrexit is making cost of living crisis worse, new study claimsModerna has announced that it will open a vaccine research and manufacturing centre in the UK. In a visit to mark the announcement, Sajid Javid, the health se
  
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• Johnson and Starmer clash over strikes as No 10 warns against ‘reckless’ pay rises – UK politics live

  22-06-2022 18:21
  
  PM’s spokesperson says workers should not be ‘chasing inflation with wages’ as that would increase inflationJohnson ‘hasn’t lifted a finger’ to solve rail strikes, says StarmerLargest teaching union threatens strike actionUK inflation rises to 9.1%, its highest rate in 40 yearsBrexit is making cost of living crisis worse, new study claimsModerna has announced that it will open a vaccine research and manufacturing centre in the UK. In a visit to mark the announ
  
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• Increasing public sector pay in line with inflation would be ‘reckless’, says No 10 – UK politics live

  22-06-2022 16:29
  
  PM’s spokesperson says workers should not be ‘chasing inflation with wages’ as that would increase inflationJohnson ‘hasn’t lifted a finger’ to solve rail strikes, says StarmerLargest teaching union threatens strike actionUK inflation rises to 9.1%, its highest rate in 40 yearsBrexit is making cost of living crisis worse, new study claimsModerna has announced that it will open a vaccine research and manufacturing centre in the UK. In a visit to mark the announ
  
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• Labour criticises Tories’ ‘shameful’ bill of rights proposals – UK politics live

  22-06-2022 14:59
  
  Justice secretary says UK will remain a party to the European convention on human rights but new bill with strengthen freedom of speechNo 10 to set out plans to override Europe’s human rights courtLargest teaching union threatens strike actionUK inflation rises to 9.1%, its highest rate in 40 yearsBrexit is making cost of living crisis worse, new study claimsModerna has announced that it will open a vaccine research and manufacturing centre in the UK. In a visit to mark the announcement, S
  
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• Dominic Raab sets out details of bill of rights – UK politics live

  22-06-2022 14:21
  
  Raab says UK will remain a party to the European convention on human rights but new bill with strengthen freedom of speechNo 10 to set out plans to override Europe’s human rights courtLargest teaching union threatens strike actionUK inflation rises to 9.1%, its highest rate in 40 yearsBrexit is making cost of living crisis worse, new study claimsModerna has announced that it will open a vaccine research and manufacturing centre in the UK. In a visit to mark the announcement, Sajid Javid, t
  
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• Dominic Raab setting out details of bill of rights – UK politics live

  22-06-2022 13:51
  
  Raab says UK will remain a party to the European convention on human rights but new bill with strengthen freedom of speechNo 10 to set out plans to override Europe’s human rights courtLargest teaching union threatens strike actionUK inflation rises to 9.1%, its highest rate in 40 yearsBrexit is making cost of living crisis worse, new study claimsModerna has announced that it will open a vaccine research and manufacturing centre in the UK. In a visit to mark the announcement, Sajid Javid, t
  
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• PMQs: Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer clash over rail strikes and the economy – UK politics live

  22-06-2022 13:28
  
  MPs are grilling the PM on the cost of living crisis and ongoing rail strikesNo 10 to set out plans to override Europe’s human rights courtLargest teaching union threatens strike actionUK inflation rises to 9.1%, its highest rate in 40 yearsBrexit is making cost of living crisis worse, new study claimsModerna has announced that it will open a vaccine research and manufacturing centre in the UK. In a visit to mark the announcement, Sajid Javid, the health secretary, said:
  We all saw during
  
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• Join the climate justice year of learning - Quakers in Britain

  22-06-2022 13:16
  
  Join the climate justice year of learning  Quakers in Britain
  
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• PMQs: Boris Johnson faces Keir Starmer as inflation hits 40-year high and rail strikes continue – UK politics live

  22-06-2022 13:08
  
  MPs are expected to grill the PM on the cost of living crisis and ongoing rail strikes Largest teaching union threatens strike actionUK inflation rises to 9.1%, its highest rate in 40 yearsBrexit is making cost of living crisis worse, new study claimsModerna has announced that it will open a vaccine research and manufacturing centre in the UK. In a visit to mark the announcement, Sajid Javid, the health secretary, said:
  We all saw during the pandemic the differences that cutting edge vaccines an
  
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• PMQs: Boris Johnson to face Keir Starmer as inflation hits 40-year high and rail strikes continue – UK politics live

  22-06-2022 12:45
  
  MPs are expected to grill the PM on the cost of living crisis and ongoing rail strikes Largest teaching union threatens strike actionUK inflation rises to 9.1%, its highest rate in 40 yearsBrexit is making cost of living crisis worse, new study claimsModerna has announced that it will open a vaccine research and manufacturing centre in the UK. In a visit to mark the announcement, Sajid Javid, the health secretary, said:
  We all saw during the pandemic the differences that cutting edge vaccines an
  
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• A British bill of rights? This draconian plan is a rights removal bill | Sacha Deshmukh

  22-06-2022 12:14
  
  The government’s move to override the European court of human rights will leave UK citizens all the poorerThe government’s long-threatened, misleadingly titled and highly controversial bill of rights is finally here. It has been trailed by Dominic Raab and other ministers for years, but the European court of human rights’ intervention in the disgraceful Rwanda refugee scheme last week was apparently the opportune moment to launch this unwanted, uneccessary legislation.The Minis
  
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• A British bill of rights? This draconian plan is a rights removal bill

  22-06-2022 12:14
  
  The government’s move to override the European court of human rights will leave UK citizens all the poorerThe government’s long-threatened, misleadingly titled and highly controversial bill of rights is finally here. It has been trailed by Dominic Raab and other ministers for years, but the European court of human rights’ intervention in the disgraceful Rwanda refugee scheme last week was apparently the opportune moment to launch this unwanted, uneccessary legislation.The Minis
  
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• National Education Union threatens strike action if teachers don’t get inflation-plus pay rise – UK politics live

  22-06-2022 11:47
  
  Biggest teaching union in the country calls for government response to ‘new economic reality of double-digit inflation’UK inflation rises to 9.1%, its highest rate in 40 yearsBrexit is making cost of living crisis worse, new study claimsThe National Education Union, the biggest teaching union in the country, has written to Nadhim Zahawi, the education secretary, saying it wants “inflation-plus pay increases for all teachers” in this year’s pay round. If the governme
  
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• West Sussex Youth Justice Service praised by inspectors - West Sussex County Council

  22-06-2022 11:39
  
  West Sussex Youth Justice Service praised by inspectors  West Sussex County Council
  
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• Big hike planned in value of state pensions ‘ludicrous’, says former Tory Treasury minister – UK politics live

  22-06-2022 10:45
  
  Jim O’Neill calls news state pension is to rise ‘crazy’ while other workers have to accept pay rises worth less than inflationUK inflation rises to 9.1%, its highest rate in 40 yearsBrexit is making cost of living crisis worse, new study claimsDominic Raab, the justice secretary and deputy first minister, told LBC that his bill of rights bill (see 9.39am) was about applying “common sense” to human rights legislation. He explained:No one is talking about tearing abou
  
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• ‘We want justice, not fuel’: Sri Lanka’s Tamils on north-south divide - The Guardian

  22-06-2022 09:22
  
  ‘We want justice, not fuel’: Sri Lanka’s Tamils on north-south divide  The Guardian
  
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• Court reporters raise 'open justice' concerns over roll-out of virtual courts – The Justice Gap - thejusticegap.com

  22-06-2022 09:00
  Court reporters raise 'open justice' concerns over roll-out of virtual courts – The Justice Gap  thejusticegap.com
  
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• Wednesday briefing: The government is planning to replace the Human Rights Act. What does that mean?

  22-06-2022 07:36
  
  In today’s newsletter: plans to abolish the Human Rights Act are picking up steam. Archie Bland explains the rights that will be gained – and lostSign up here for our new daily newsletter, First Edition Continue reading...
  
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• Wednesday briefing: ‘An acceptable class of human rights abuses in the UK’

  22-06-2022 07:36
  
  In today’s newsletter: plans to abolish the Human Rights Act are picking up steam. Archie Bland explains the rights that will be gained – and lostSign up here for our new daily newsletter, First Edition Continue reading...
  
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