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• Competing Accounts of Justice Dept.'s Handling of Hunter Biden Case - The New York Times

  27-06-2023 23:19 via news.google.com
  
  Competing Accounts of Justice Dept.'s Handling of Hunter Biden Case  The New York Times
  
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• Online Press Briefing with Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal ... - Department of State

  27-06-2023 22:52 via news.google.com
  
  Online Press Briefing with Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal ...  Department of State
  
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• Helen McEntee says Sinn Féin cannot be trusted with criminal ... - Irish Examiner

  27-06-2023 22:30 via news.google.com
  
  Helen McEntee says Sinn Féin cannot be trusted with criminal ...  Irish Examiner
  
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• Pioneering facility offering alternative to women’s prisons opens in England

  27-06-2023 20:49
  
  Hope Street scheme in Southampton aims to keep women in criminal justice system out of jail and with their childrenIt all started when Edwina Grosvenor spent an hour with two heroin addicts at a drug rehabilitation centre in Liverpool, almost 30 years ago.Her parents – Natalia and Gerald Grosvenor, who was one the richest men in the UK and the sixth Duke of Westminster – decided to take her to the centre at the age of 12 or 13 to show her that there was a world beyond her privileged
  
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• Drug rehab facility offers women an alternative to prison

  27-06-2023 20:49
  
  Hope Street scheme in Southampton aims to keep women in criminal justice system out of jail and with their childrenIt all started when Edwina Grosvenor spent an hour with two heroin addicts at a drug rehabilitation centre in Liverpool, almost 30 years ago.Her parents – Natalia and Gerald Grosvenor, who was one the richest men in the UK and the sixth Duke of Westminster – decided to take her to the centre at the age of 12 or 13 to show her that there was a world beyond her privileged
  
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• Māori justice experts warn against scrapping cultural report funding - Newsroom

  27-06-2023 20:22 via news.google.com
  Māori justice experts warn against scrapping cultural report funding  Newsroom
  
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• Connecticut lawmakers pass juvenile justice bill with diversion plan - Connecticut Public

  27-06-2023 20:01 via news.google.com
  
  Connecticut lawmakers pass juvenile justice bill with diversion plan  Connecticut Public
  
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• Justice Thomas renews attacks on landmark First Amendment decision in fiery dissent - CNN

  27-06-2023 19:32 via news.google.com
  Justice Thomas renews attacks on landmark First Amendment decision in fiery dissent  CNN
  
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• House Democrats call for independent investigation of Justice Clarence Thomas - The Hill

  27-06-2023 18:26 via news.google.com
  House Democrats call for independent investigation of Justice Clarence Thomas  The Hill
  
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• Soros-backed prosecutor Kim Foxx is accused of 'legitimizing vigilante justice' - Daily Mail

  27-06-2023 18:22 via news.google.com
  Soros-backed prosecutor Kim Foxx is accused of 'legitimizing vigilante justice'  Daily Mail
  
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• Soros-backed prosecutor Kim Foxx is accused of 'legitimizing ... - Daily Mail

  27-06-2023 18:22 via news.google.com
  Soros-backed prosecutor Kim Foxx is accused of 'legitimizing ...  Daily Mail
  
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• If Trump wins, he'll turn the justice department into a vendetta machine - The Guardian

  27-06-2023 18:08 via news.google.com
  If Trump wins, he'll turn the justice department into a vendetta machine  The Guardian
  
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• Paul Holmes tribunal: The fight for justice continues - Socialist Appeal

  27-06-2023 16:38 via news.google.com
  
  Paul Holmes tribunal: The fight for justice continues  Socialist Appeal
  
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• Supreme court rules against fringe legal theory in key voting rights case

  27-06-2023 16:21
  
  North Carolina Republicans requested justices issue ruling following dispute over electoral mapsThe US supreme court shot down a fringe legal theory that observers said posed a considerable threat to democracy, ruling that state courts have the authority to weigh in on disputes over federal election rules.The 6-3 decision in Moore v Harper is a blow to North Carolina Republicans who had asked the court to embrace the so-called independent state legislature theory – the idea that the US con
  
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• Misconduct by federal jail guards led to Jeffrey Epstein's suicide ... - The Associated Press

  27-06-2023 16:01 via news.google.com
  
  Misconduct by federal jail guards led to Jeffrey Epstein's suicide ...  The Associated Press
  
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• Urgent action needed to protect ‘dying’ Kenyan domestic workers in Gulf, say rights groups

  27-06-2023 15:36
  
  Deaths and alleged abuse of Kenyan women in Saudi Arabia fuels demands for Nairobi to act on human rights Rights groups have expressed concern that not enough has been done to address the alleged mistreatment of domestic workers in Gulf states, such as Saudi Arabia, after the Kenyan government moved to secure work opportunities abroad for its citizens.“This is a matter of grave public interest,” said John Mwariri, a lawyer at Kituo cha Sheria, a legal aid organisation. “Many of
  
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• Dignitas has helped 540 British people die, MPs told

  27-06-2023 15:34
  
  Swiss organisation calls for assisted dying to be legalised in UK and made available alongside palliative careThe assisted dying organisation Dignitas has told parliament “it’s about time” to legalise the practice in the UK and make it available alongside palliative care, describing the current rules as “inadequate and incoherent”.Silvan Luley, a team member at the Swiss organisation, told a House of Commons assisted dying investigation his organisation had helped 5
  
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• Bill of Rights will be ditched, says Justice Secretary - The Independent

  27-06-2023 15:14 via news.google.com
  
  Bill of Rights will be ditched, says Justice Secretary  The Independent
  
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• MP renews call for offenders to face justice under 'Olivia's Law' - Liverpool Echo

  27-06-2023 15:08 via news.google.com
  MP renews call for offenders to face justice under 'Olivia's Law'  Liverpool Echo
  
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• Kate steps out in Southampton to open new facility to support women in the justice system - Express

  27-06-2023 12:40 via news.google.com
  Kate steps out in Southampton to open new facility to support women in the justice system  Express
  
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• Kate steps out in Southampton to open new facility to support ... - Express

  27-06-2023 12:40 via news.google.com
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• Keir Starmer failed to consult watchdog about new role after leaving CPS

  27-06-2023 12:30
  
  Exclusive: Labour leader did not contact Acoba about taking up role at top firm in 2014, it has emergedKeir Starmer failed to consult the post-government appointments watchdog when he left the Crown Prosecution Service and took a highly paid consultancy with a top law firm, the Guardian has found.After the Labour leader stepped down as director of public prosecutions (DPP) in October 2013, he became a part-time consultant at Mishcon de Reya, an elite London firm that paid him at least £100
  
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• ‘Democracy is on life support’: the organizers fighting voter suppression in the US south

  27-06-2023 12:00
  
  After the 2013 supreme court ruling decimated the Voting Rights Act, advocates are working round the clock to ensure the ballot is accessible to allAs the co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund, Cliff Albright frequently crisscrosses the south on a bus, holding rallies and events to encourage Black voters to show up to the polls. On an election day, the bus might pull up to a polling place to play music or give out water and snacks.Then Georgia’s legislature made it a crime to hand out
  
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• Volunteers wanted to make sure justice is seen to be done - Inside Croydon

  27-06-2023 11:25 via news.google.com
  Volunteers wanted to make sure justice is seen to be done  Inside Croydon
  
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• Vladimir Putin says Wagner mutiny leaders will be 'brought to justice' - BBC

  27-06-2023 01:22 via news.google.com
  
  Vladimir Putin says Wagner mutiny leaders will be 'brought to justice'  BBC
  
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• Sharing deepfake intimate images to be criminalised in England and Wales

  27-06-2023 01:01
  
  Under online safety bill, maximum sentence where intent to cause distress is proved will be two yearsSharing deepfake intimate images is to be criminalised in England and Wales. Amendments to the online safety bill will make it illegal to share explicit images or videos that have been digitally manipulated to look like someone else without their consent.The Ministry of Justice said the use of deepfakes had been increasing in recent years, with a website that virtually strips women naked receivin
  
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