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• Libya: ICC’s Role Critical for Justice - Human Rights Watch

  14-05-2025 23:58 via news.google.com
  Libya: ICC’s Role Critical for Justice  Human Rights Watch
  
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• Former county clerk in Murdaugh murder trial charged with obstruction of justice and misconduct - CNN

  14-05-2025 22:45 via news.google.com
  Former county clerk in Murdaugh murder trial charged with obstruction of justice and misconduct  CNN
  
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• Justice on demand? The true crime podcasts serving up Erin Patterson’s mushroom murder trial - The Conversation

  14-05-2025 22:19 via news.google.com
  Justice on demand? The true crime podcasts serving up Erin Patterson’s mushroom murder trial  The Conversation
  
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• Editorial: Releasing IPP prisoners is the clear choice for the justice secretary - The Independent

  14-05-2025 21:54 via news.google.com
  Editorial: Releasing IPP prisoners is the clear choice for the justice secretary  The Independent
  
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• How England’s ‘rough justice’ heroes keep the innocent in jail - The Telegraph

  14-05-2025 21:44 via news.google.com
  How England’s ‘rough justice’ heroes keep the innocent in jail  The Telegraph
  
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• 70 years of wrongful convictions: How our justice system’s safety net failed - The Telegraph

  14-05-2025 21:44 via news.google.com
  70 years of wrongful convictions: How our justice system’s safety net failed  The Telegraph
  
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• Peru's Boluarte taps justice minister to fill prime minister opening - Reuters

  14-05-2025 21:33 via news.google.com
  Peru's Boluarte taps justice minister to fill prime minister opening  Reuters
  
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• The Guardian view on abortion prosecutions: decriminalisation can’t wait | Editorial

  14-05-2025 20:11
  
  The trial of Nicola Packer shows why MPs should seize the opportunity to change the law and safeguard vulnerable women nowThe Crown Prosecution Service has yet to explain why it thought that pursuing a case against Nicola Packer was in the public interest. Thankfully, jurors last week cleared the 45-year-old of illegally terminating her pregnancy. But more than four years of police and criminal proceedings have had a lasting impact on a woman already traumatised by discovering that she was 26 we
  
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• Why Peter Sullivan will not be Britain's last appalling miscarriage of justice - Yahoo News UK

  14-05-2025 19:09 via news.google.com
  Why Peter Sullivan will not be Britain's last appalling miscarriage of justice  Yahoo News UK
  
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• Sycamore Gap tree duo do not belong in prison | Letters

  14-05-2025 18:56
  
  Two men convicted of cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree should face a punishment that fits the crime, not jail, writes Dr Rod Earle. Plus letters from Matt Powell, Shayne Mary Mitchell and Michael Fort As a social worker who wrote hundreds of pre-sentence reports before becoming a criminologist, and someone who has been to prison before all of that, I would urge the judge in the case of the two men convicted of felling the Sycamore Gap tree to act creatively and constructively (Two men foun
  
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• Victoria Justice Recalled Getting Death Threats Over That Viral Ariana Grande Meme - BuzzFeed

  14-05-2025 18:04 via news.google.com
  Victoria Justice Recalled Getting Death Threats Over That Viral Ariana Grande Meme  BuzzFeed
  
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• David Souter obituary

  14-05-2025 17:21
  
  Former US supreme court justice nominated by George HW Bush who consistently voted with its liberal wingWhen David H Souter, who has died aged 85, was appointed to the US supreme court by George HW Bush in 1990, it was called a “home run for conservativism” by Bush’s chief of staff John Sununu, who, as governor of New Hampshire had appointed Souter to the state’s supreme court. But it would turn into an appointment whose impact outweighed the appointee’s important j
  
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• Three new prisons to be built starting this year, UK justice secretary announces

  14-05-2025 17:12
  
  Shabana Mahmood says jails will be part of a ‘record prison expansion’ amid overcrowding crisis in England and Wales Three new prisons will be built, starting this year, as part of a “record prison expansion”, the justice secretary has announced, as the government grapples with near-full jails.Shabana Mahmood also announced a shake-up of prison recall measures, which will mean prisoners serving between one and four years’ jail time can be returned to prison only for
  
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• UK equality watchdog to extend gender guidance consultation, say insiders

  14-05-2025 16:34
  
  Exclusive: Six-week deliberation asked for by Commons committee expected to be granted after internal backlashThe UK’s equality watchdog is expected to give in to demands that it allow more time to consider its formal guidance on the supreme court ruling about gender issues, after what sources say has been a big backlash from staff and stakeholders.Some insiders believe the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) may be forced into a U-turn on its initial response, which was criticised
  
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• Justice chiefs described as ‘useless’ after man wrongly jailed for 38 years - The Telegraph

  14-05-2025 16:02 via news.google.com
  Justice chiefs described as ‘useless’ after man wrongly jailed for 38 years  The Telegraph
  
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• Royal College of Psychiatrists says it cannot yet support assisted dying bill

  14-05-2025 15:08
  
  College says it is neutral on assisted dying, but ‘many, many factors’ need addressing in proposal for England and WalesThe Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) has voiced its opposition to the assisted dying bill in England and Wales over “many, many factors”.The college says it is neutral on the principle of assisted dying but it has listed nine substantial reasons it cannot back the bill – which returns to parliament on Friday – in its current form. Con
  
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• More miscarriages of justice ‘inevitable’, says CCRC review lawyer after Peter Sullivan freed

  14-05-2025 13:07
  Chris Henley says he expects more wrongful convictions to come to light after 1987 murder case ruling overturnedA lawyer who led a review into the Criminal Cases Review Commission’s work has said it is “absolutely inevitable” there will be more miscarriages of justice after Peter Sullivan was released from prison after spending 38 years inside for a murder he did not commit.Sullivan was convicted in 1987 of the murder of 21-year-old Diane Sindall, who was killed as she left wor
  
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• The assisted dying lobby isn’t being honest with you – disabled people are at risk from this bill | Lucy Webster

  14-05-2025 13:01
  Proponents say the measures being debated in parliament will apply only to people who are on their deathbeds. That isn’t trueYou’ve been deceived by the campaign for assisted dying. It has told you who the proposed law is for: people on their metaphorical deathbeds, no hope in sight, desperate to spare themselves and their loved ones the experience of an agonising death. And no wonder – these cases obviously merit sympathy and concern. These are the people campaigners want to t
  
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• US justice department asks civil rights division attorneys to stay after mass exits - The Guardian

  14-05-2025 13:00 via news.google.com
  US justice department asks civil rights division attorneys to stay after mass exits  The Guardian
  
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• Prisoners to earn freedom after serving third of sentence under new plans

  14-05-2025 12:36
  Offenders in England and Wales to have sentences cut for good behaviour and completion of work, training or education tasksPrisoners will be able to earn their freedom after serving a third of their sentences under new minimum and maximum sentence plans released by the government to tackle the overcrowding in jails.Offenders in England and Wales will be able to earn early release if they complete work, training or education assignments and demonstrate good behaviour. Continue reading...
  
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• Going down the hub: MoJ to shut London HQ - The Law Society Gazette

  14-05-2025 12:23 via news.google.com
  Going down the hub: MoJ to shut London HQ  The Law Society Gazette
  
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• More miscarriages of justice ‘inevitable’, says CCRC review lawyer after Peter Sullivan freed - The Guardian

  14-05-2025 11:48 via news.google.com
  More miscarriages of justice ‘inevitable’, says CCRC review lawyer after Peter Sullivan freed  The Guardian
  
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• New prisons to be built and inmates released early, justice secretary says, as MoJ warns men’s jails could run out of space – as it happened - The Guardian

  14-05-2025 10:22 via news.google.com
  New prisons to be built and inmates released early, justice secretary says, as MoJ warns men’s jails could run out of space – as it happened  The Guardian
  
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• Eurovision fans want 'justice' for Switzerland after semi-finals chaos - Metro.co.uk

  14-05-2025 10:17 via news.google.com
  Eurovision fans want 'justice' for Switzerland after semi-finals chaos  Metro.co.uk
  
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• More than 50 cross-party MPs back amendment to decriminalise abortion

  14-05-2025 08:25
  Labour’s Tonia Antoniazzi tables amendment seeking to remove women from ‘criminal law related to abortion’An amendment proposing to decriminalise abortion has been tabled in parliament, backed by a group of more than 50 cross-party MPs.Put forward by the MP Tonia Antoniazzi, it is supported by several of her Labour colleagues including Nadia Whittome, Jess Asato and Antonia Bance. Continue reading...
  
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