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• Tencent directors step down from Epic Games' board after US Justice Department "expressed concerns" - GamesIndustry.biz

  19-12-2024 22:45 via news.google.com
  Tencent directors step down from Epic Games' board after US Justice Department "expressed concerns"  GamesIndustry.biz
  
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• Like al-Hallaq, justice evades Palestinian killed by Israeli Border Police - Haaretz

  19-12-2024 22:03 via news.google.com
  Like al-Hallaq, justice evades Palestinian killed by Israeli Border Police  Haaretz
  
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• ‘Outrageous!’ Ex-Labour MP erupts at ‘two-tier’ justice as Nigel Farage’s milkshake attacker avoids jail - GB News

  19-12-2024 21:52 via news.google.com
  ‘Outrageous!’ Ex-Labour MP erupts at ‘two-tier’ justice as Nigel Farage’s milkshake attacker avoids jail  GB News
  
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• Millions invested in legal aid to boost access to justice and keep streets safe - GOV.UK

  19-12-2024 20:00 via news.google.com
  Millions invested in legal aid to boost access to justice and keep streets safe  GOV.UK
  
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• UPDATE: Hungary gives asylum to fugitive Polish ex-justice official, straining bilateral ties - TVP World

  19-12-2024 19:45 via news.google.com
  UPDATE: Hungary gives asylum to fugitive Polish ex-justice official, straining bilateral ties  TVP World
  
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• Syria’s interim gov’t pledges justice, jobs and security in ‘new era’ - Al Jazeera English

  19-12-2024 19:33 via news.google.com
  Syria’s interim gov’t pledges justice, jobs and security in ‘new era’  Al Jazeera English
  
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• The Guardian view on Britain and its constitution: a country we should know better | Editorial

  19-12-2024 19:25
  
  A new survey shows that the UK has a far more exhaustive written version of its laws and principles than many thinkIt is often said that Britain has no written constitution. The lack of one is sometimes invoked by critics to attack – and occasionally by defenders to justify – the archaisms, anomalies and other mysteries that abound in the practices of the British state. No less an authority than Queen Elizabeth II said that the constitution “has always been puzzling and always
  
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• More than 200 fashion models urge New York governor to sign bill of rights

  19-12-2024 19:25
  Alessandra Ambrosio and Christy Turlington and others ask Kathy Hochul to sign Fashion Workers Act in open letterMore than 200 top fashion models including Christy Turlington, Helena Christensen, Alessandra Ambrosio and Beverly Johnson have sent an open letter to the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, asking her urgently to sign a bill of rights giving models protection from sexual harassment, discrimination and AI.The Fashion Workers Act was passed in the New York Assembly and Senate in June, but
  
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• Teenagers who murdered Prince Walker-Ayeni face justice - Manchester Evening News

  19-12-2024 19:16 via news.google.com
  Teenagers who murdered Prince Walker-Ayeni face justice  Manchester Evening News
  
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• Brave Gisele Pelicot 'changed the game but still didn't get justice,' charities blast - The Mirror

  19-12-2024 18:55 via news.google.com
  Brave Gisele Pelicot 'changed the game but still didn't get justice,' charities blast  The Mirror
  
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• Domestic abusers use Fathers 4 Justice ‘playbook’ to win custody, victims say after Sara Sharif murder - The Telegraph

  19-12-2024 18:27 via news.google.com
  Domestic abusers use Fathers 4 Justice ‘playbook’ to win custody, victims say after Sara Sharif murder  The Telegraph
  
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• Question of intent makes genocide hardest crime to prove

  19-12-2024 18:25
  International courts have set an extremely high standard of proof when it comes to showing intent to commit genocideThe definition of genocide outlined in a 1948 UN convention is quite vague and the crime is extremely hard to prove in the international courts.The convention sets the bar for genocide as “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such”. Continue reading...
  
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• Nigel Farage and other MPs are mistaken over parliamentary privilege | Letter

  19-12-2024 18:25
  
  Stephen Sedley writes in response to MPs threatening to name Yang Tengbo in parliament last week before the high court identified himContrary to what Nigel Farage and many other MPs and peers appear to believe (MPs consider naming Chinese ‘spy’ linked to Prince Andrew, 15 December), there is no parliamentary privilege in our constitutional law that allows them to defy court orders or decisions if they think it right to do so.Insofar as we have a written constitution, the Bill of Righ
  
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• Gisèle Pelicot has rewritten her story – and electrified women all over the world. But what about men? | Rebecca Solnit

  19-12-2024 18:15
  
  This was an extraordinary response to unimaginable crimes. Yet true change will only come when men engage with the culture that led us hereWomen who are raped are in many countries – perhaps in most – violated and abused again by the legal system. And yet during her reckoning with the crimes of her husband and 51 other men, all now found guilty in a historic set of verdicts, Gisèle Pelicot seized control of the narrative, becoming a hero in France and around the world.After sh
  
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• UK shadow justice secretary criticised for demanding end to Islamic courts in UK - Middle East Eye

  19-12-2024 17:05 via news.google.com
  UK shadow justice secretary criticised for demanding end to Islamic courts in UK  Middle East Eye
  
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• Justice For Gisèle Pelicot? 51 Guilty Verdicts Doesn’t Come Close - British Vogue

  19-12-2024 16:26 via news.google.com
  Justice For Gisèle Pelicot? 51 Guilty Verdicts Doesn’t Come Close  British Vogue
  
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• LA’s outgoing district attorney on the Menendez brothers and prison reform: ‘people could be safely released’

  19-12-2024 16:00
  
  George Gascón rode a wave of progressivism into office here before his recent ouster by a ‘hard middle’ candidateGeorge Gascón was considered a national leader on criminal justice reform when he was elected Los Angeles district attorney in 2020 on a pledge to overhaul the largest local prosecutor’s office in the US.Over the last four years, he has worked to fulfill his promises to reduce mass incarceration, right the wrongs of the racist legal system and hold poli
  
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• UK arts and media reject plan to let AI firms use copyrighted material

  19-12-2024 15:38
  Exclusive: Coalition of musicians, photographers and newspapers insist existing copyright laws must be respectedWriters, publishers, musicians, photographers, movie producers and newspapers have rejected the Labour government’s plan to create a copyright exemption to help artificial intelligence companies train their algorithms.In a joint statement, bodies representing thousands of creatives dismissed the proposal made by ministers on Tuesday that would allow companies such as Open AI, Goo
  
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• Minimum term increased for 13-year-olds over Wolverhampton murder

  19-12-2024 15:28
  
  Sentences for boys who killed Shawn Seesahai when they were 12, UK’s youngest knife murderers, raised to at least 10 yearsBritain’s youngest knife murderers, who killed a 19-year-old man with a machete when they were 12, have had their sentences increased to a 10-year-minimum prison term at the court of appeal.The two boys, now 13, were initially given life sentences with minimum terms of eight and a half years for the murder of Shawn Seesahai in Wolverhampton in November 2023. Conti
  
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• ‘Justice served’ as 12-year-old killers have jailtime increased - The Independent

  19-12-2024 14:35 via news.google.com
  ‘Justice served’ as 12-year-old killers have jailtime increased  The Independent
  
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• ‘Gisèle has forced France to stop looking away’: our panel on the Pelicot rape trial verdict | Rokhaya Diallo, Anne Bouillon and others

  19-12-2024 13:15
  
  All 51 men on trial have been found guilty, a fact that needs to prompt major changes in French societyOne face and name dominated the streets of Paris on 23 November as the annual march marking International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women took place. Gisèle Pelicot’s image was everywhere – she is a new feminist hero.Rokhaya Diallo is a French journalist, writer, film-maker, activist and Guardian columnist Continue reading...
  
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• Calls for abortion law change in England after couple sentenced for buying pills

  19-12-2024 13:12
  
  Campaigners say case of Sophie Harvey and her partner exposes harmful and unnecessary criminalisation of womenThe prosecution of a young couple who were handed community orders at Gloucester crown court more than six years after the stillbirth of a baby has led to renewed calls for abortion law reform in England.Sophie Harvey and Elliot Benham, both now 25, were originally arrested on suspicion of murder after they disposed of a stillborn foetus. Continue reading...
  
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• "James Was Very Specific": The DC Universe's First Look At The Justice League And How James Gunn Was Involved Explained By Creature Commandos Showrunner - Screen Rant

  19-12-2024 13:00 via news.google.com
  "James Was Very Specific": The DC Universe's First Look At The Justice League And How James Gunn Was Involved Explained By Creature Commandos Showrunner  Screen Rant
  
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• Dominique Pelicot’s lawyer: Rape trial ‘a good thing for justice’ - The Independent

  19-12-2024 12:02 via news.google.com
  Dominique Pelicot’s lawyer: Rape trial ‘a good thing for justice’  The Independent
  
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• Justice Secretary and family member ‘driven to Old Firm in Government car’ - Glasgow Times

  19-12-2024 11:35 via news.google.com
  Justice Secretary and family member ‘driven to Old Firm in Government car’  Glasgow Times
  
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• Gisèle Pelicot endured unimaginable abuse at the hands of her husband. Here’s how she got justice - The Telegraph

  19-12-2024 11:08 via news.google.com
  Gisèle Pelicot endured unimaginable abuse at the hands of her husband. Here’s how she got justice  The Telegraph
  
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• Tan Ikram is the embodiment of two-tier justice - Spiked

  19-12-2024 10:34 via news.google.com
  Tan Ikram is the embodiment of two-tier justice  Spiked
  
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• Is AI justice on the way? AADR: Automated alternative dispute resolution - Travers Smith

  19-12-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  Is AI justice on the way? AADR: Automated alternative dispute resolution  Travers Smith
  
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• I grew up on these characters – Netflix better do them justice - T3

  19-12-2024 07:31 via news.google.com
  I grew up on these characters – Netflix better do them justice  T3
  
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• Israel accused of act of genocide over restriction of Gaza water supply

  19-12-2024 06:00
  
  Human Rights Watch says Israeli forces have acted deliberately to cut availability of clean waterIsrael’s restriction of Gaza’s water supply to levels below minimum needs amounts to an act of genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity, a human rights report has alleged.Human Rights Watch (HRW) investigated Israeli attacks on the water supply infrastructure in Gaza over the course of its 14-month war there. Continue reading...
  
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