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• The paedophiles and sexual abusers brought to justice in County Durham this month - The Northern Echo

  27-07-2025 21:00
  The paedophiles and sexual abusers brought to justice in County Durham this month  The Northern Echo
  
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• Why we need a right not to be manipulated

  27-07-2025 15:00
  From airlines to broadband, companies exploit cognitive biases to get us to part with money. Here’s how to fight backMany nations already enshrine a right not to be defrauded, and even a right not to be deceived. If a company sells you a new medicine, falsely claiming that it prevents cancer, it can be punished. If a firm convinces you to buy a new smartphone, saying that it has state-of-the-art features when it doesn’t, it will have violated the law. But in the current era
  
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• Survivors of coercive control are being criminalised in England, research finds

  27-07-2025 15:00
  Centre for Women’s Justice says the criminalisation of women for their abusive partners’ actions is ‘shocking’Survivors of coercive control are being unfairly criminalised in England and punished by a justice system that should be protecting them, research has found.A report from the Centre for Women’s Justice (CWJ) drew on the experiences of seven women who were criminalised because of their abusive partners. They include a police officer who was convicted of misco
  
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• ‘Really cautious’: why the ICJ is delaying a Gaza genocide verdict

  27-07-2025 10:01
  While Palestinians starve and global opinion hardens, judgment from international court may not come until 2027 – or laterWhile Palestinians in Gaza die in ever-increasing numbers from starvation each day and a growing number of legal scholars, aid officials and politicians have begun describing Israel’s actions as genocide, a definitive ruling on the question by the world’s top court will be a long time coming.Experts on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said a judgment
  
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