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• UK's New Porn Laws Aren't Just Out of Touch. They're Sexist. - The New Republic

  05-12-2014 23:54
  
  The New Republic
  UK's New Porn Laws Aren't Just Out of Touch. They're Sexist.
  The New Republic
  In a hopeless government attempt to control what Britons get off on, new rules regulating the U.K. porn industry have come into force this week. The Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2014 imposes restrictions on the content of pornography made and ...
  
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• NAACP's six-day, 134-mile Journey for Justice reaches Missouri capital city

  05-12-2014 21:38
  
  Dozens of marchers joined by hundreds of supporters in Jefferson City
  Trek culminated in rally inside state capitol rotunda; goal was to call for reform
  They walked past signs that said “Supporting officer Wilson!” and “Justice was served!” They walked past a man wearing a Ku Klux Klan facemask. They walked past shouts of “Go home!” and the N-word. They walked past grain elevators and $2.37 gas. They walked past a confederate flag with the singer Hank Williams Jr’s head on it. They
  
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• UK Law Prompts Calls For Resource Extraction Rule - Bloomberg BNA

  05-12-2014 21:33
  
  UK Law Prompts Calls For Resource Extraction Rule
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  Dec. 1 — With a new law that came into force Dec. 1, the U.K. became the first country in the European Union to implement directives requiring companies to report the payments they make to governments to access natural resources worldwide. The 2014 ...
  UK is first to implement EU rules on reporting for extractive companiesInternational Tax Review
  
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• The EU’s robust human rights system has proved its worth | @guardianletters

  05-12-2014 20:15
  
  When we consider human rights in Europe (The case against human rights, 4 December), we are concerned with the existing and constantly developing jurisprudence through the living instrument of the European convention on human rights. As with the improvement in safety standards in all walks of life, we can see the benefits of its application; it is statistically determinable. As a human rights lawyer, I have lived through the changes, and I have seen the safety, security and sense of justice it h
  
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• Europe’s robust human rights system has proved its worth | Letters

  05-12-2014 20:15
  
  When we consider human rights in Europe (The case against human rights, 4 December), we are concerned with the existing and constantly developing jurisprudence through the living instrument of the European convention on human rights. As with the improvement in safety standards in all walks of life, we can see the benefits of its application; it is statistically determinable. As a human rights lawyer, I have lived through the changes, and I have seen the safety, security and sense of justice it h
  
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• Jeremy Thorpe survived to see a better Britain | Dominic Carman

  05-12-2014 19:38
  
  When my father defended him in court, the great Liberal seemed to be on trial for his sexuality. Today it wouldn’t matterIn May 1979, the man who had almost singlehandedly revived the Liberal party, by securing 6m votes at the February 1974 general election, stood trial at the Old Bailey for incitement to murder and conspiracy to murder. Six weeks later, the former Liberal leader, Jeremy Thorpe, was cleared on both charges. Although acquitted, he had already lost his North Devon seat at the ge
  
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• UN calls on US police to end racial profiling and review rules on lethal force

  05-12-2014 17:06
  
  Special rapporteur ‘concerned’ by grand juries’ decisions on deaths‘Pattern of impunity’ question as victims are African AmericanProtests over Eric Garner ruling continue through second nightOpinion: #CrimingWhileWhite is what’s wrong with white privilegeUnited Nations human rights experts on Friday called for a halt to racial profiling by US law enforcement officers and a review of laws allowing police to use lethal force. The independent experts expressed disappointment that grand
  
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• Law to ban wild animals in UK circuses being blocked by three Tory MPs - The Guardian

  05-12-2014 15:46
  
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  Law to ban wild animals in UK circuses being blocked by three Tory MPs
  The Guardian
  A new law to ban the use of wild animals in circuses is being repeatedly blocked by a trio of Tory backbenchers, despite the personal support of David Cameron, the government, Labour and over 90% of the British public. The bill was blocked for the ...
  MPs 'overwhelmingly support' international aid lawScotsman
  Bid to scupper bill on 0.7% foreign aid pledge failsBBC News
  0.7 per cent aid law s
  
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• Oldest surviving law faces repeal after 747 years - BBC News

  05-12-2014 15:38
  
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  Oldest surviving law faces repeal after 747 years
  BBC News
  Some of the oldest surviving legislation on England's statute books is set to be repealed after 747 years. Just four of the 29 sections of the Statute of Marlborough, passed in 1267 under Henry III, remain in force. Now two - covering debt collection ...
  
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• ICC drops murder and rape charges against Kenyan president

  05-12-2014 15:10
  
  Uhuru Kenyatta’s trial will not go ahead after key prosecution witness refuses to testify and another admits lyingThe international criminal court’s chief prosecutor has dropped all charges of crimes against humanity against Kenya’s president, highlighting the court’s difficulties in bringing to justice the high-ranking officials it has accused of atrocities.A spokeswoman for the prosecution office, Florence Olara, said the prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, had filed a notice withdrawing the c
  
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• Writers rejoice at ruling against ‘cruel and ludicrous’ prison books ban

  05-12-2014 14:50
  
  Authors including JK Rowling, Ian McEwan and Philip Pullman cheer high court judgment against embargo on sending prisoners books
  News: Prison book ban unlawful, court rulesThe high court’s ruling that the ban on sending books to prisoners is unlawful has been hailed as “the halting of an iniquitous and draconian ban” and a “rare victory for common sense” by the award-winning novelists who have battled for it to be quashed.Announcing the judgment, Mr Justice Collins said that justice
  
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• Merger to create criminal defence giant

  05-12-2014 14:39
  
  Cartwright King continues expansion with First Law Partnership deal.
  
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• Amnesty International demands UK inquiry into hooded men case

  05-12-2014 14:31
  
  Call for investigation comes after Ireland asks ECHR to revise 1978 ruling that says 14 suspects were not tortured by British armyAmnesty International has called for an independent UK investigation into the alleged torture of 14 suspects detained by the British army at the start of the Troubles.The human rights organisation demanded the inquiry on Friday after the Irish government asked the European court of human rights (ECHR) to revise its judgment in the case of the hooded men, who were deta
  
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• Crimes against humanity charges against Kenya’s president dropped

  05-12-2014 14:26
  
  Uhuru Kenyatta’s trial will not go ahead after key prosecution witness refuses to testify and another admits lyingThe International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor dropped all charges of crimes against humanity against Kenya’s president on Friday, highlighting the court’s difficulties in bringing to justice the high-ranking officials it has accused of atrocities.A spokeswoman for the prosecution office, Florence Olara, said that a prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, had filed a notice withdraw
  
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• In praise of … Frances Crook | Hugh Muir

  05-12-2014 14:19
  
  The absurd ban on sending books to prisoners has been overturned thanks to the chief executive of the Howard League for Penal ReformPrison works, it is said. To what end, is the perennial question. Those who believe our jails should strike an appropriate balance between punishment and reforming behaviour feel beleaguered. They will be grateful for the achievement of that campaigner for civilised practice within our prisons, Frances Crook. For when the justice secretary, Chris Grayling, sought to
  
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• PI firms prepare challenge to whiplash changes

  05-12-2014 14:02 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Government says cab-rank rule for medical experts ensures independence and competition.
  
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• Tightening drink-drive laws has saved lives, but there’s a limit to limits | Michael White

  05-12-2014 13:35
  
  MSPs have voted unanimously to cut the legal limit for drinking and driving. They must have parked their brainsDid you notice the Scottish parliament has cut the legal limit for drinking and driving from the current UK level of 80mg per 100ml of blood to the European norm of 50mg, thus making it theoretically possible for a driver from England to be stopped and charged at Gretna Green after a mid-journey pint south of the border.Scotland has a legacy of alcohol abuse as bad as the rest of us and
  
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• ‘Earn your seat at the table,’ GCs told

  05-12-2014 13:22
  
  Shell legal director pledges support for Law Society’s GC350 engagement programme.
  
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• Osborne hits tax break for incorporating firms

  05-12-2014 13:15 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Autumn statement announcement reduces advantage of limited company conversion. 
  
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• Prison book ban is unlawful, court rules

  05-12-2014 12:33
  
  Judge quashes ban on sending books to prisoners and orders justice secretary Chris Grayling to amend policyThe blanket ban on sending books to prisoners across England and Wales has been declared unlawful by the high court.Mr Justice Collins has quashed the ban imposed by the justice secretary, Chris Grayling, and ordered him to amend his policy on what can be sent to prisoners. Continue reading...
  
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• NHS increases use of sleuths for suspect claims

  05-12-2014 12:28
  
  Commissioning of private surveillance has increased significantly in five years.
  
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• Scotland cuts drink-drive alcohol limit - BBC News

  05-12-2014 12:16
  
  The Guardian
  Scotland cuts drink-drive alcohol limit
  BBC News
  A new law has come into force which makes the legal drink-drive limit in Scotland lower than elsewhere in the UK. The change reduces the legal alcohol limit from 80mg to 50mg in every 100ml of blood. Campaigners believe the new limit will cut the ...
  Stricter drink-drive limit comes into force in ScotlandThe Guardian
  Scottish police begin enforcing new drink-drive limit north of the borderTelegraph.co.uk
  Drink-drive limit Scotland: W
  
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• UK mass surveillance laws do not breach human rights, tribunal rules

  05-12-2014 12:16
  
  Rights groups brought case against GCHQ after Snowden revelations on extent of electronic surveillance in UK and USBritain’s legal regime governing mass surveillance of the internet by intelligence agencies does not violate human rights, a tribunal has ruled.But the investigatory powers tribunal said (IPT) it had identified one area where it had concerns about whether there were adequate legal safeguards. Continue reading...
  
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• UK mass surveillance laws do not breach human rights, tribunal rules - The Guardian

  05-12-2014 12:09
  
  The Guardian
  UK mass surveillance laws do not breach human rights, tribunal rules
  The Guardian
  Satellite dishes at a GCHQ outpost in Cornwall, near where transatlantic fibre-optic cables come ashore. Snowden revealed that GCHQ taps such cables and shares vast quantities of personal information with the NSA. Photograph: Kieran Doherty/Reuters.
  Snowden's revelations of GCHQ spying techniques not outside the law, says UK ...Tech2
  UK Tribunal Says Spying Programs Are LegalThe Intercept - First
  
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• Parabis gets £13m private equity injection

  05-12-2014 11:39
  
  Duke Street says money will fund ‘significant change’ at national firm. 
  
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• The UK's sexist new pornography restrictions aren't just an act of state ... - The Independent

  05-12-2014 09:22
  
  The Independent
  The UK's sexist new pornography restrictions aren't just an act of state ...
  The Independent
  UK porn legislation: What is now banned under new government laws. The regulations are supposed to create equality between the types of content that can be purchased from licenced sex shops in the UK with that which can be purchased on the internet.
  The UK pornography law: a scientific perspectiveThe Guardian
  
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• The UK pornography law: a scientific perspective - The Guardian

  05-12-2014 08:16
  
  The Guardian
  The UK pornography law: a scientific perspective
  The Guardian
  This week Britain introduced a controversial law restricting types of online pornography. Criticisms of these rules are many, but one complaint is that they make no logical sense. So do these new laws and their supposed rationale stand up to scientific ...
  Sex and censorship: why new porn laws are 'ridiculous'The Week UK
  
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• Top police officer: many viewing child abuse images should be treated on NHS

  05-12-2014 07:00
  
  Norfolk chief constable Simon Bailey believes thousands on police database ‘pose no threat’ and don’t belong in prisonThousands who view child abuse images online should be treated as patients by the NHS rather than sent to prison because they pose no threat to children, says one of Britain’s leading police officers.In an interview with the Guardian, Simon Bailey, chief constable of Norfolk police and the Association of Chief Police Officers’ (Acpo) lead on child protection and abuse i
  
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