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• Former Edinburgh Academy teacher accused of torture will not stand trial

  30-11-2023 21:02
  
  John Brownlee, 88, who faced 37 allegations relating to abuse of schoolboys over 20 years, ruled medically unfit for trialA former teacher at one of Scotland’s most prestigious private schools who faced a catalogue of abuse charges covering a 20-year period will not stand trial, because of ill health.John Brownlee, 88, was facing a total of 37 allegations relating to violence and torture he is alleged to have inflicted on 35 schoolboys from February 1967 to December 1987 while he taught at
  
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• US ethics groups hail Senate subpoenas for Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow

  30-11-2023 19:53
  Watchdogs applaud after Democrats vote to summon key rightwing duo to answer questions amid supreme court ethics rowWatchdog groups applauded Democrats on the US Senate judiciary committee after they voted on Thursday to subpoena the influential rightwing donor Harlan Crow and activist Leonard Leo, for information regarding gifts to the conservative justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas that have fueled an ethics scandal.Brett Edkins, of Stand Up America, said the committee “sent a str
  
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• Time to get rid of a British feudal system that allows royals to rob the dead | Letters

  30-11-2023 19:14
  
  Readers react to a Guardian investigation into bona vacantia, whereby the duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall can collect the estates of the deceased in certain circumstancesIn 2001, I wrote an article for Taxation magazine dealing with an issue where companies could fall foul of the bona vacantia rules (Revealed: King Charles secretly profiting from the assets of dead citizens, 23 November). I sent a copy of the article to the Treasury solicitor and Farrer & Co, the solicitors for the duchies
  
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• Russia outlaws ‘international LGBT public movement’ as extremist

  30-11-2023 15:08
  
  Human rights activists say supreme court’s vague wording provides wide scope for persecutionRussia’s supreme court has outlawed what it called an “international LGBT public movement” as extremist, in a landmark ruling that representatives of gay and transgender people warn will lead to arrests and prosecutions of the already repressed LGBTQ+ community.The ruling in effect outlaws LGBTQ+ activism in a country growing increasingly conservative since the start of the war in
  
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• ‘Stripped to the bone’: Lancashire courts in chaos as Raac adds to crisis

  30-11-2023 10:45
  
  A day at Blackburn magistrates court highlights the confusion after closures in Blackpool and PrestonIt was a big day for AJ when he turned up at Blackpool magistrates court earlier this month. The 36-year-old was found guilty last month of harassing a young woman, and was returning to court to be sentenced. Prison was possible, so the stakes were high, particularly for someone with autism, agoraphobia and anxiety.Getting there from his home in Morecambe was no mean feat without a car: a 40-mile
  
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• Criminal Justice Bill: call for evidence - Committees

  30-11-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  Criminal Justice Bill: call for evidence  Committees
  
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• Rwandan courts will not protect refugees’ rights, say daughters of genocide hero

  30-11-2023 07:00
  
  Family of Paul Rusesabagina, who campaigned to have him freed from jail, say country’s justice system is a ‘tool to oppress people’The Rwandan legal system is incapable of protecting refugees sent from the UK, according to the daughters of Paul Rusesabagina, the man who inspired the Oscar-nominated movie Hotel Rwanda.Carine and Anaïse Kanimba campaigned for more than two years to secure the release of their father, who was freed from a Kigali jail after three years of inca
  
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• Families hope new NC law could bring justice for fentanyl deaths - Fox 46 Charlotte

  30-11-2023 01:21 via news.google.com
  Families hope new NC law could bring justice for fentanyl deaths  Fox 46 Charlotte
  
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