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• Justice abroad: When Washington prosecutes terrorists … and when it doesn’t - JNS.org

  20-11-2025 23:45
  Justice abroad: When Washington prosecutes terrorists … and when it doesn’t  JNS.org
  
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• Starmer urged to stand up for BBC against Trump’s ‘outrageous’ $10bn lawsuit – UK politics live

  16-12-2025 12:25
  Ed Davey says prime minister must make it clear lawsuit is ‘unacceptable’ as US president quotes Badenoch to back ‘fake news’ claimLisa Nandy, the culture secretary, has published a green paper on BBC charter renewal. It includes a consultation on options for the future.On funding, the document says the government has an “open mind” on how the licence fee system may be reformed to stop fewer households paying every year. It suggests there might be a new type o
  
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• Liverpool parade attack: victims describe horror of day as driver due to be sentenced – live

  16-12-2025 12:25
  Victim impact statements read at sentencing hearing of Paul Doyle, who pleaded guilty to 31 offencesAs a reminder, on Monday, prosecutors said in the space of two minutes, Doyle’s Ford Galaxy – which weighed nearly two tonnes – collided with “well over 100 people” and he was “prepared to cause those in the crowd, even children, serious harm if necessary to achieve his aim of getting through”.Doyle admitted to dangerous driving, affray, 17 charges of atte
  
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• Ministers to back regulation of England’s funeral industry after scandals

  16-12-2025 07:00
  Demands for oversight grow after inquiry calls sector an ‘unregulated free for all’ and families seek stronger safeguardsMinisters are expected to back calls to regulate England’s funeral industry for the first time, after a series of scandals over the handling of remains.Bereaved families have called for a new investigatory body and rules governing professional qualifications after an official inquiry declared the sector an “unregulated free for all”. Continue read
  
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• Police face super-complaint in England and Wales over lengthy delays in sexual offence investigations

  15-12-2025 21:00
  Campaign groups warn prolonged inquiries are retraumatising survivorsA super-complaint has been filed against police forces in England and Wales over years-long delays in investigating sexual offences.More than 37,000 sexual offence investigations have taken longer than three years to conclude over the past decade, campaigners said. Continue reading...
  
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• Home Office fails to protect vulnerable migrants, high court judge rules

  15-12-2025 19:09
  Judgment finds systems designed to protect against inhuman and degrading treatment ‘unlawfully’ failing for yearsThe Home Office has failed to protect vulnerable migrants it locks up in detention centres, a high court judge has ruled.Mrs Justice Jefford found an unlawful failure of the “systems” designed to protect immigration detainees from inhuman and degrading treatment under article 3 of the European convention on human rights and that these failings had been going on
  
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• International law on the killing of people who survive an attack at sea | Letter

  15-12-2025 19:02
  William Schabas on the conviction of two officers of a German submarine of ‘an offence against the law of nations’ during the first world warSidney Blumenthal referred to a 1945 war crimes judgment on the killing of seamen who had survived an attack at sea during the second world war (Does Pete Hegseth even believe that war crimes exist?, 8 December). There is an even earlier case. In a trial held by a German court pursuant to the treaty of Versailles (1919), two officers of U-86 wer
  
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• The big quarrels over the workers’ rights bill have barely started | Nils Pratley

  15-12-2025 18:31
  Many critical details have been deliberately left to be resolved in secondary legislation – including the introduction of guaranteed hours contractsBusiness groups urge Tory peers to stop blocking Labour’s workers’ rights billWill the employment rights bill be passed by Christmas? Well, the chances are slightly improved after six leading business groups published a temperature-lowering letter on Monday that said parliament, which in this instance means the blockers in the House
  
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• Business groups urge Tory peers to stop blocking Labour’s workers’ rights bill

  15-12-2025 16:35
  Six of Britain’s biggest employer groups fear compromise deal brokered with bosses and union leaders is at riskNils Pratley: The big quarrels over the workers’ rights bill have barely startedBritain’s biggest business groups have urged Conservative peers to stop blocking Labour’s workers’ rights bill in the House of Lords to avoid throwing away a compromise deal reached with trade unions.With the clock ticking before Christmas, six of the country’s biggest emp
  
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• The US supreme court’s TikTok ruling is a scandal | Evelyn Douek and Jameel Jaffer

  15-12-2025 12:00
  The decision means TikTok now operates under the threat that it could be forced offline with a stroke of Trump’s penJudicial opinions allowing the government to suppress speech in the name of national security rarely stand the test of time. But time has been unusually unkind to the US supreme court decision that upheld the law banning TikTok, the short-form video platform. The court issued its ruling less than a year ago, but it is already obvious that the deference the court gave to the g
  
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• Call for system that frees rape suspects as alternative to bail to be scrapped in England and Wales

  15-12-2025 08:00
  ‘Released under investigation’ leads to uncertainty and distress for both victim and accused, say campaignersHundreds of suspected rapists in England and Wales are spending years released under investigation, under a system that the government has been urged to scrap as it “doesn’t serve anyone’s interests apart from the police”.Introduced under the Policing & Crime Act 2017, released under investigation (RUI) allows police an alternative to bail, without
  
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• ‘Law is the only weapon I have’: a Ukrainian lawyer’s campaign to rescue the children stolen by Russia

  15-12-2025 06:00
  Though once so despairing she thought of giving up the law for art, Kateryna Rashevska is still pushing for the return of thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by the invadersAt only 28, the human rights lawyer Kateryna Rashevska has become the public face of Ukraine’s campaign to repatriate children forcibly deported to Russia. She knows this means she is being watched.The past two years have seen the Ukrainian addressing the UN security council, the US Senate and writing submissions t
  
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• Panel gives Justice Varma 6 weeks to respond to charges - The Times of India

  14-12-2025 22:58
  Panel gives Justice Varma 6 weeks to respond to charges  The Times of India
  
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• Justice should not be reduced to punishment alone: Pope - CathNews

  14-12-2025 21:59
  Justice should not be reduced to punishment alone: Pope  CathNews
  
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• Embu family seeks justice as nursing student dies after party to celebrate end of internship - MSN

  14-12-2025 21:02
  Embu family seeks justice as nursing student dies after party to celebrate end of internship  MSN
  
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• Yugoslavia experience shows international justice is inevitable – Le Monde journalist - Ukrinform

  14-12-2025 19:56
  Yugoslavia experience shows international justice is inevitable – Le Monde journalist  Ukrinform
  
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• ‘A great win’: Mahoney testified for senators on Justice Department agreement Dec. 1 - The Cavalier Daily

  14-12-2025 17:49
  ‘A great win’: Mahoney testified for senators on Justice Department agreement Dec. 1  The Cavalier Daily
  
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• Transitional justice panels stuck in red tape now cite March polls for delay - kathmandupost.com

  14-12-2025 17:17
  Transitional justice panels stuck in red tape now cite March polls for delay  kathmandupost.com
  
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• What is the role of transitional justice in addressing public employees implicated in serious crimes? - Enab - Enab Baladi

  14-12-2025 16:19
  What is the role of transitional justice in addressing public employees implicated in serious crimes? - Enab  Enab Baladi
  
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• Take action against corrupt judges, rise above politics: Chief justice in farewell address - The Business Standard

  14-12-2025 15:55
  Take action against corrupt judges, rise above politics: Chief justice in farewell address  The Business Standard
  
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• Is the European Court of Justice a Protector of the Weak? - Verfassungsblog

  14-12-2025 13:10
  Is the European Court of Justice a Protector of the Weak?  Verfassungsblog
  
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• Judges Not Affected By Tinubus Police Withdrawal Order— Chief Justice Kekere-Ekun - thenigerianvoice.com

  14-12-2025 12:41
  Judges Not Affected By Tinubus Police Withdrawal Order— Chief Justice Kekere-Ekun  thenigerianvoice.com
  
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• Justice minister urges government to ignore court annulment of attorney general’s sacking - The Times of Israel

  14-12-2025 10:42
  Justice minister urges government to ignore court annulment of attorney general’s sacking  The Times of Israel
  
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• Missouri's chief justice takes time to reflect, reconnect | Opinion - Springfield News-Leader

  14-12-2025 10:38
  Missouri's chief justice takes time to reflect, reconnect | Opinion  Springfield News-Leader
  
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• ‘Like a mini Louvre’: two generations of Rothschilds fight over treasure trove of artworks

  14-12-2025 07:00
  Baronesses Nadine and Ariane de Rothschild at odds over future of Swiss chateau’s priceless contentsAfter three generations of genteel discretion bordering on secrecy, the international banking family the Rothschilds has been riven by rival claims to a vast collection of masterpieces that are part of the family’s multibillion-euro fortune.The battle now playing out in the courts and media has pitched the 93-year-old senior baroness, Nadine de Rothschild – widow of Edmond de Rot
  
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• As Justice Department priorities shift, concerns about protection of students' civil rights escalate - The Hechinger Report

  14-12-2025 07:00
  As Justice Department priorities shift, concerns about protection of students' civil rights escalate  The Hechinger Report
  
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• Bridging the Justice Gap in Federal Administrative Proceedings - The Regulatory Review

  14-12-2025 06:08
  Bridging the Justice Gap in Federal Administrative Proceedings  The Regulatory Review
  
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• Justice is meant to be blind, not to hallucinate - The Times

  14-12-2025 01:01
  Justice is meant to be blind, not to hallucinate  The Times
  
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• Agnes Odhiambo Memorial Talk 2025: Reproductive Justice in the Age of Backlash - African Leadership in a Global Fight - Human Rights Watch

  13-12-2025 19:05
  Agnes Odhiambo Memorial Talk 2025: Reproductive Justice in the Age of Backlash - African Leadership in a Global Fight  Human Rights Watch
  
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• Ensuring the Best Interests of Children in Justice Processes in Ukraine - Global Rights Compliance

  13-12-2025 18:29
  Ensuring the Best Interests of Children in Justice Processes in Ukraine  Global Rights Compliance
  
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