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• Victims of Vietnam's Formosa Toxic Spill Deserve Justice - Human Rights Watch

  14-05-2024 23:28 via news.google.com
  
  Victims of Vietnam's Formosa Toxic Spill Deserve Justice  Human Rights Watch
  
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• Victorian law aims to help sexual assault victims report crimes by providing defamation immunity

  14-05-2024 17:00
  
  Exclusive: government hopes proposed law will encourage people to come forward to police without fear of legal actionGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastVictims of sexual assault and harassment will be immune to defamation lawsuits for reporting crimes to Victorian police under new legislation to end concerns that the threat of legal action was having a “chilling effect” on people coming forward.The state government is set to introduce the justice
  
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• Victoria moves to protect sexual assault victims from defamation action for reporting crimes

  14-05-2024 17:00
  
  Exclusive: Government hopes proposed law will encourage people to come forward to police without fear of legal actionFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastVictims of sexual assault and harassment will be immune to defamation lawsuits for reporting crimes to Victorian police under new legislation, over concerns the threat of legal action was having a “chilling effect” on people coming forward.The
  
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• These 30 World Justice Challenge Finalists Are Defending Rule of Law and Democracy - World Justice Project

  14-05-2024 14:00 via news.google.com
  
  These 30 World Justice Challenge Finalists Are Defending Rule of Law and Democracy  World Justice Project
  
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• 15 Years Since Sri Lanka's Conflict Ended, No Justice for War Crimes - Human Rights Watch

  14-05-2024 13:43 via news.google.com
  
  15 Years Since Sri Lanka's Conflict Ended, No Justice for War Crimes  Human Rights Watch
  
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• Barrister – and sleepwalking expert – faces tribunal after falling asleep at inquest

  14-05-2024 13:32
  
  Tribunal heard Ramya Nagesh, who was appearing remotely on behalf of nurse witness, fell asleep after eating baked potatoA barrister who wrote a book on sleepwalking is facing a disciplinary tribunal after allegedly falling asleep during a coroner’s inquest.Ramya Nagesh, a member of commercial chambers in Gray’s Inn Square in London, has been accused by the Bar standards board (BSB) of professional misconduct after falling asleep during a virtual hearing, missing her client giving ev
  
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• London barrister faces disciplinary tribunal after falling asleep at inquest

  14-05-2024 13:00
  
  Tribunal heard Ramya Nagesh, who was appearing remotely on behalf of nurse witness, fell asleep after eating baked potatoA barrister who wrote a book on sleepwalking is facing a disciplinary tribunal after allegedly falling asleep during a coroner’s inquest.Ramya Nagesh, a member of commercial chambers in Gray’s Inn Square in London, has been accused by the Bar standards board (BSB) of professional misconduct after falling asleep during a virtual hearing, missing her client giving ev
  
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• ‘The only healing will be through justice’: Pulitzer winner Cristina Rivera Garza on femicide in Mexico - The Guardian

  14-05-2024 12:17 via news.google.com
  ‘The only healing will be through justice’: Pulitzer winner Cristina Rivera Garza on femicide in Mexico  The Guardian
  
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• Nottingham attack victims’ families hit out at ‘flawed criminal justice system’ - The Guardian

  14-05-2024 11:17 via news.google.com
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• ‘I’m fighting for the right to live’: Liz Carr on acting, friendship and her campaign against assisted dying

  14-05-2024 11:00
  
  The star of Silent Witness and The Normal Heart was ‘the popular kid’ until an autoimmune condition turned her life upside down. She talks about her lonely childhood, her flourishing career and the battle she can’t abandonIt’s a tense time for Liz Carr. “You should be in our house at the moment!” she says. Better Off Dead?, her documentary on assisted dying, is soon to air on BBC One. She is making the case against. “You’re probably thinking that,
  
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• I’ve seen how firms cheat the law to exploit workers and here’s a warning: those days are ending | Polly Toynbee

  14-05-2024 09:00
  
  For all the controversy about Labour’s policy on ‘workers’ rights’, it looks set to be a gamechangerHow did Labour let its most life-transforming policy get more publicity for its suspected “watering down” than it ever got for the policy itself? Today, Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner will meet the unions to assure them the new deal for working people is as radical as ever: an agreed, detailed policy document follows soon. The Trades Union Congress, broadly supp
  
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• How to buy and sell your home in a property chain in England and Wales

  14-05-2024 09:00
  
  The are so many people involved, and so many things that can go wrong, so above all else … stay coolUnless you have chosen a new-build home, buying a property will usually involve a chain. In Scotland, many of the problems that can cause a chain to collapse may not be such an issue because the legal process means lots of things are fixed from the outset. In England and Wales, however, it is a different matter, and buyers can withdraw without consequence at any point before exchange of con
  
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• Generation Justice – amplifying youth voices ahead of the 15th UN Crime Congress - UNODC

  14-05-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  Generation Justice – amplifying youth voices ahead of the 15th UN Crime Congress  UNODC
  
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• Fossil fuel firms forcing countries to compensate them, Mary Robinson says

  14-05-2024 09:00
  
  Former Irish president and Ban Ki-moon say fossil lobbying is hampering climate progressFossil fuel companies are forcing governments to compensate them for lost earnings in the transition to a low-carbon global economy, and destroying the world’s ability to counter their harmful activities, former top UN officials have warned.Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland who was twice a UN climate envoy, said she was “outraged” by the activities of fossil fuel companies, incl
  
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• World Justice Challenge 2024 Finalists - World Justice Project

  14-05-2024 05:51 via news.google.com
  
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• High-risk offenders included in early release scheme, prisons inspector says

  14-05-2024 01:01
  
  Domestic abuser among those freed from jail as part of plan to relieve overcrowding, watchdog revealsHigh-risk offenders including a domestic abuser who posed a risk to children have been freed from jail under the government’s early release scheme, a watchdog has revealed.
  Charlie Taylor, the chief inspector of prisons, said the Ministry of Justice’s plan to relieve the pressure in overcrowded jails raised “serious concerns” and had undermined safety and risk management.T
  
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