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• Heather Rogers obituary

  09-11-2023 21:45
  
  One of the leading media law barristers of her generation, she was a champion of free speechBy the time Heather Rogers, who has died of a pulmonary embolism aged 64, became a Queen’s (now King’s) counsel in 2006, she had established herself as one of the leading media law barristers of her generation.A champion of free speech, with many successes as a defendant barrister acting on behalf of news organisations, she was a strict adherent to the “cab rank” rule and acted for
  
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• Australia to immediately begin releasing people held in indefinite immigration detention

  09-11-2023 21:40
  
  Legal advocate for detainees says government could be liable for compensation if it failed to free peopleFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Albanese government will immediately begin releasing people from indefinite detention after Wednesday’s landmark high court ruling, after receiving a flurry of demands from long-term detainees to be set free.On Thursday the director of Human Rights for All,
  
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• Benedict Birnberg obituary

  09-11-2023 21:31
  
  Pioneering lawyer and civil liberties campaigner who paved the way for the abolition of the death penalty in BritainWhen the family of Derek Bentley – hanged in 1953 for the murder of a policeman – attempted to obtain a posthumous pardon for his wrongful execution, they approached a local south London solicitor, Benedict Birnberg, for help.It was the beginning of a more than 30-year-long, ultimately successful, legal campaign that helped pave the way for the abolition of the death pe
  
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• With bursting jails and Europe’s longest sentences, the last thing the UK needs is more rightwing ‘reforms’ | Polly Toynbee

  09-11-2023 17:30
  
  The justice select committee’s plea for public engagement on prisons policy is poignant – and probably likely to go unheardHere we go again, tightening the screw and lengthening prison sentences to please that insatiable appetite among some voters for locking up more criminals ever longer. It is a British disease – born of public ignorance of the fact that for many decades, the UK has had the harshest sentencing in western Europe, with more people imprisoned per head of the pop
  
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• Australia faces rush of demands to release people held in indefinite immigration detention

  09-11-2023 15:00
  
  Exclusive: Legal advocate for detainees says government could be liable for compensation for failing to immediately release peopleGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Albanese government has begun receiving demands it release people from indefinite detention after Wednesday’s landmark high court ruling, with one plaintiff’s lawyer revealing she has asked for 20 clients to be set free.The director of Human Rights for All, Alison Battisson, said
  
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• UK supreme court to rule on legality of plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

  09-11-2023 14:13
  
  A finding against the Tory policy could increase pressure on Sunak to leave European convention on human rightsUK politics live – latest updatesRishi Sunak’s government will discover next Wednesday whether its flagship immigration policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful.The supreme court will give its judgment after the Home Office challenged a court of appeal ruling that the multimillion-pound deal to send deported asylum seekers to the east African nation was unlawful.
  
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• Myanmar’s military commanders responsible for rape and torture – war crimes report

  09-11-2023 14:00
  
  Security Force Monitor finds 64% of senior army officers led units allegedly committing killings, rapes, torture and disappearancesNew research into alleged war crimes in Myanmar has concluded that the majority of senior commanders in the Myanmar military, many of whom hold powerful political positions in the country, were responsible for crimes including rape, torture, killings and forced disappearances carried out by units under their command between 2011 and 2023.The research, by the Security
  
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• Most top Myanmar officers responsible for rape and torture – war crimes report

  09-11-2023 14:00
  
  Security Force Monitor finds 64% of senior army officers led units allegedly committing killings, rapes, torture and disappearancesNew research into alleged war crimes in Myanmar has concluded that the majority of senior commanders, many of whom hold powerful political positions in the country, were responsible for crimes including rape, torture, killings and forced disappearances carried out by units under their command between 2011 and 2023.The research, by the Security Force Monitor (SFM), a
  
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• Shell sues Greenpeace for $2.1m in damages over fossil fuel protest in North Sea

  09-11-2023 09:59
  
  Energy firm’s lawsuit looks for indefinite block on group’s protesters targeting its infrastructureShell is suing Greenpeace for $2.1m in damages in one of the biggest ever legal threats against the group after its campaigners occupied a moving oil platform earlier this year.The lawsuit calls for an indefinite block on all protest at Shell infrastructure at sea or in port anywhere in the world, or face claims that could rise to a total of $8.6m if Shell contracting companies also pur
  
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• Magistrates in England not following law on remand decisions, charity finds

  09-11-2023 06:00
  
  Exclusive: Justice criticises poor quality decision-making and says it is adding to prison overcrowdingMagistrates are not following the law when sending thousands of people to jail on remand, exacerbating the prison overcrowding crisis in England, a report suggests.The remand population is at a record high, with one in five people who are in jail awaiting trial or sentencing, up from one in nine in 2019. Police cells are being used to hold prisoners, and the government plans to rent cells overs
  
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