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• Victoria Justice Recalls the Moment She Learned About 'Sweet' Friend Christina Grimmie's 'Horrific' 2016 Death - People.com

  13-05-2025 22:01 via news.google.com
  Victoria Justice Recalls the Moment She Learned About 'Sweet' Friend Christina Grimmie's 'Horrific' 2016 Death  People.com
  
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• Assisted dying proposal passes first stage in Scotland

  13-05-2025 20:50
  Bill to allow assisted dying for terminally ill adults will now go forward to parliamentary committeeThe Scottish parliament has voted to consider a bill to allow assisted dying for terminally ill people for the first time, after a prolonged debate by MSPs.Holyrood decided by 70 votes to 56 to back the bill, in a free vote that followed months of pre-legislative scrutiny by a cross-party committee and comes days before MPs at Westminster vote on passing similar legislation for England and Wales.
  
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• Chuck Schumer says he’ll obstruct Trump’s justice department picks over Qatar jet gift - The Guardian

  13-05-2025 20:16 via news.google.com
  Chuck Schumer says he’ll obstruct Trump’s justice department picks over Qatar jet gift  The Guardian
  
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• Labour accused of ‘two-tier justice’ in Northern Ireland - The Telegraph

  13-05-2025 18:55 via news.google.com
  Labour accused of ‘two-tier justice’ in Northern Ireland  The Telegraph
  
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• Peter Sullivan has murder conviction quashed after 38 years in jail

  13-05-2025 18:49
  Hearing told that DNA evidence found at the scene of Diane Sindall’s murder was not that of the 68-year-oldA 68-year-old man who has spent 38 years in jail has had his murder conviction quashed at the court of appeal in what is thought to be the longest-running miscarriage of justice in British history.Peter Sullivan was wrongly convicted in 1987 for the frenzied murder of a florist and part-time pub worker, Diane Sindall, 21, who was killed as she left work in Bebington, Merseyside. Conti
  
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• ‘I was right to be frightened’: Nicola Packer on the humiliation and trauma of her trial for illegal abortion

  13-05-2025 18:48
  Acquitted woman wants to ensure there​ is never again an abortion trial in England​ ​ “I hate sitting in silence now,” Nikki Packer says. A quiet room reminds her too much of the police cell she was locked into just hours after undergoing a traumatic stillbirth.Arrested in hospital by uniformed officers while still recovering from surgery, she was accused of carrying out an illegal abortion. It took four-and-a-half years for her case to come to court, where last wee
  
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• The law has spread its tentacles over protest, effectively making all of it illegal | Letters

  13-05-2025 18:25
  We have allowed the law to redefine democratically engaged young people as enemies of society, writes Dr Craig ReevesYour story rightly highlights the troubling state harassment of peaceful protesters, but the focus on the appropriateness of policing misses a deeper problem: the law itself (Why did 30 Met officers kick the door down at a teenage tea and biscuits meeting in a Quaker house?, 10 May).The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 defines public nuisance as recklessly or intentio
  
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• Lord Etherton obituary

  13-05-2025 18:17
  Former master of the rolls, head of the civil judiciary in England and Wales, who was the first openly gay senior judgeWhen the Daily Mail damned three senior judges as “enemies of the people” for their Brexit case judgment in 2016, it rubbed a little extra prejudice into the insult for Terence Etherton.The newly appointed master of the rolls, head of the civil judiciary in England and Wales, was initially derided by the paper’s online edition as an “openly gay ex-Olympic
  
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• Give terminally ill people choice in how they die, MSP urges Scottish parliament

  13-05-2025 17:55
  Liam McArthur opens debate on assisted dying, saying too many face ‘horrendous choices and bad deaths’Scottish politicians have been urged to show terminally ill people compassion and choice in how they die as they began to debate a new law to permit assisted dying.Liam McArthur, a Scottish Liberal Democrat MP, said too many dying people faced “horrendous choices and bad deaths”, including unregulated suicides or prolonged trauma because they were denied the right to an a
  
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• Space for children to play should be a requirement in planning law, say MPs

  13-05-2025 16:48
  Parliamentary group launched alongside campaign for ‘play sufficiency duty’ that matches those in Wales and ScotlandUK politics live – latest updatesA duty to provide space for children to play on new developments should be embedded in planning law, MPs and campaigners have said.The first ever all-party parliamentary group on play was launched on Tuesday alongside a campaign to bring in a “play sufficiency duty” in England to match those in Wales and Scotland. Conti
  
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• A French icon falls: Gérard Depardieu’s guilt will make his films hard to watch

  13-05-2025 16:21
  Some will argue the actor’s legacy of landmark film roles should not be tainted by his conviction for sexual assault. But it willIt seems strangely appropriate that 76-year-old French movie star Gérard Depardieu was found guilty of sexual assault and given an 18-month suspended prison sentence on the eve of the 78th edition of the Cannes film festival. Both Cannes and Depardieu, born in the 40s, belong to an old world, but it seems only one of them has managed to adapt to the times
  
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• 'Justice was done', says victim after Depardieu guilty verdict – video - The Guardian

  13-05-2025 13:59 via news.google.com
  'Justice was done', says victim after Depardieu guilty verdict – video  The Guardian
  
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• Kim Leadbeater urges MPs to back palliative care amendment to assisted dying bill

  13-05-2025 13:00
  MP sponsoring bill in England and Wales says she agrees with Marie Curie that end of life care must be improvedKim Leadbeater has urged MPs to back an amendment to the assisted dying bill which would commission a new assessment on the state of palliative care, a move first proposed by the bill’s opponents.In a gesture to MPs who are voting against the bill, the MP sponsoring it said that she understood the concern about the quality of care for terminally ill people and said she believed th
  
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• Rogue prosecutors should face fast-track court ban, say magistrates - London Evening Standard

  13-05-2025 09:01 via news.google.com
  Rogue prosecutors should face fast-track court ban, say magistrates  London Evening Standard
  
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• Climate Justice: What is Possible? - King's College London

  13-05-2025 09:00 via news.google.com
  Climate Justice: What is Possible?  King's College London
  
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• UK faces legal challenge over asylum seekers’ deportations to Bulgaria

  13-05-2025 07:00
  Deportees may face inhumane treatment and torture, say lawyers contesting Labour’s migration policyThe UK government’s migration plans are facing an imminent challenge this week, with lawyers seeking to overturn deportations to Bulgaria due to allegations of brutal conditions faced by migrants and asylum seekers in the country.There have been more than 24,000 returns – both enforced and voluntary – from Britain since Labour’s election victory in July 2024, according
  
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• Protests planned as Scottish parliament holds free vote on assisted dying bill

  13-05-2025 07:00
  Opponents of proposals say it is ethically wrong to allow state to help someone take their own lifeOpponents of proposals to legalise assisted dying in Scotland have warned it is ethically wrong to allow the state to help someone take their own life.Campaigners against assisted dying, including the Silent Witness actor Liz Carr, are staging demonstrations outside the Scottish parliament on Tuesday, hours before MSPs hold a free vote on new legalisation proposals. Continue reading...
  
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• South Sudan: 3 Years On, No Justice for Abuses in Southern Unity - Human Rights Watch

  13-05-2025 06:00 via news.google.com
  South Sudan: 3 Years On, No Justice for Abuses in Southern Unity  Human Rights Watch
  
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• An English gentleman, a crooked lawyer: the secrets of Stephen David Jones

  13-05-2025 06:00
  With his brilliant mind and impeccable credentials, it’s little wonder that wealthy clients trusted him with their fortunes. Then they started to get suspiciousEwan McKay is a quiet, trusting man with a lifelong passion for golf. Growing up in the 1950s in Angus, a windswept county on Scotland’s east coast, he found the sport a perfect outlet: a shared activity that reduced the pressures of socialising. Later, as an adult, golfing allowed him to rub shoulders with wealthy farmers who
  
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• Islamic State fighters who return to the UK must face justice, committee says - Sky News

  13-05-2025 02:18 via news.google.com
  Islamic State fighters who return to the UK must face justice, committee says  Sky News
  
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• Rule of law is ‘endangered,’ chief justice says - Politico

  13-05-2025 01:39 via news.google.com
  Rule of law is ‘endangered,’ chief justice says  Politico
  
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• Islamic State fighters who returned to UK must face justice, says committee - lbc.co.uk

  13-05-2025 01:08 via news.google.com
  Islamic State fighters who returned to UK must face justice, says committee  lbc.co.uk
  
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