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• Google in court again over 'right to be above British law' on alleged secret ... - The Independent

  08-12-2014 23:16
  
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  Google in court again over 'right to be above British law' on alleged secret ...
  The Independent
  Dan Tench, a partner at the law firm Olswang, which is representing the group, insisted: “The Court of Appeal hearing will decide whether British consumers actually have any right to hold Google to account in this country. “This is the appropriate ...
  Google appeal trial over UK legal action beginsScotsman
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• The Guardian view on the judge who said Asians didn’t have important jobs | Editorial

  08-12-2014 21:34
  
  Richard Hollingworth proved in a few ill-chosen words that the legal system neither reflects nor respects diversity properly
  It is to the credit of the judicial system that Richard Hollingworth felt obliged to stand down from his post as a deputy district judge after making, in open court, disparaging comments about an Asian female victim. Told that Deepa Patel might not be able to attend Preston magistrates court at short notice because of employment commitments, the judge demurred. “It won
  
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• Anni Dewani has been failed by South Africa | Margie Orford

  08-12-2014 21:11
  
  She died alone and terrified in one of the bleakest parts of the country, and after the collapse of Shrien Dewani’s trial her family still has no answersAnni Dewani, a young woman shot dead in Cape Town, has haunted South Africa for four years. After the collapse of the trial of her husband, Shrien Dewani, accused of masterminding her murder, she will continue to do so. Not only because she was young, beautiful and just married; not only because her heartbroken, desperate parents have been tak
  
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• Manchester police involved in Taser death seek anonymity at inquest

  08-12-2014 20:55
  
  Five officers have claimed their lives will be in danger if they are identified at inquest of Jordan Lee BegleyFive police officers involved in the fatal Tasering of a young man in Manchester have asked to remain anonymous at his inquest, claiming their lives would be in danger were they identified.One of them, a uniformed beat officer, fired a stun gun at Jordan Lee Begley after being called to his house in Gorton, east Manchester, on 10 July 2013. Jordan’s mother, Dorothy Begley, had rung th
  
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• Shrien Dewani goes free after a trial doomed from day one

  08-12-2014 20:49
  
  Collapse of trial over the murder of Dewani’s new wife, Anni, sparks criticism of prosecutors who had four years to prepareA star witness whose evidence was “riddled with contradictions”, a murder investigation botched by police and a premier league defence lawyer who outmanoeuvred the prosecution at every turn. These were the key reasons why the case against Shrien Dewani was thrown out on Monday.The British businessman walked free from the high court in Cape Town without having to testif
  
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• MPs get go-ahead to challenge snooping law

  08-12-2014 19:43
  
  Judicial review brought by David Davis Tom Watson centres on Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act
  Two MPs have been given the green light to legally challenge the government over the introduction of legislation which gives police and security services access to people’s phone and internet records.The judicial review action brought by Conservative former shadow home secretary David Davis and Labour backbencher Tom Watson centres on the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (Dripa
  
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• UK court to review legality of fast-tracked surveillance law - PCWorld

  08-12-2014 19:30
  
  UK court to review legality of fast-tracked surveillance law
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  A surveillance law that was rushed through by the U.K. government will be reviewed by the country's High Court to determine if it violates human rights. The Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014, also known as DRIPA, was adopted in July by ...
  
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• Judge quashes 'generous interpretation' of Mitchell

  08-12-2014 18:50
  
  High Court overturns relief from sanction granted to a party that filed document 18 days late.
  
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• Union drops high court challenge over probation privatisation

  08-12-2014 17:34
  
  Napo says justice secretary has acknowledged serious safety risks and spelt out how he intends to address its concernsThe probation union, Napo, has ended its high court challenge to prevent the justice secretary, Chris Grayling, from privatising 70% of probation work, saying he recognised there were serious public safety risks involved.The decision, taken two days before the case was due to begin, removes one of the last remaining hurdles to the privatisation of the supervision of 200,000 low-
  
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• Uber rape scandal: thousands demand driver background checks in India

  08-12-2014 17:14
  
  After the alleged rape of a passenger in Delhi by a man with a criminal record for sexual offences, almost 7,000 people have signed a petition demanding the firm vet drivers better
  Over 7,000 people have signed a petition calling on ride-sharing app Uber to impose a mandatory seven-year background check on its drivers in India, as it does in the US.
  The petition, which was launched early on Monday, was prompted by the alleged rape of a 25-year-old woman in Delhi by a driver.
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• Self-service power of attorney taking over, government boasts

  08-12-2014 17:04
  
  Cabinet Office paper says digital lasting powers of attorney process has fewer errors than traditional forms. 
  
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• UK court to review legality of web snooping law - Gigaom

  08-12-2014 16:10
  
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  UK court to review legality of web snooping law
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  Although it was billed as an emergency measure to allow the U.K. to continue its data retention efforts – and it is indeed time-limited until the end of 2016 — it effectively expanded the scope of what information must be stored, to include metadata ...
  UK court to review legality of fast-tracked surveillance lawCIO Australia
  
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• For the sake of justice, this attack on judicial review must be resisted | Polly Toynbee

  08-12-2014 15:54
  
  The future of judicial review is at stake in the Lords. The prison book ban case shows its importance for freedom – and common senseA great victory was won for prisoners last week. They will be able to receive books, contrary to the arbitrary and bizarre edict of Chris Grayling, the justice secretary, that the prison library should suffice. Thanks to a judicial review brought with the help of the Howard League for Penal Reform, not only justice, but common sense, has prevailed. Denying access
  
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• Supreme Court verdict awaited in crucial surveillance case | Guardian Undercover Blog

  08-12-2014 15:07
  
  John Catt, 89, has fought for three years to compel police’s “domestic extremism” unit to destroy its records on himFive leading judges are considering a key case that is likely to help determine how much the police can monitor and record the political activities of campaigners. For three years, John Catt, an 89-year-old campaigner, has been seeking to compel the police to destroy the records they hold on him documenting his presence at protests. Continue reading...
  
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• Mass surveillance exposed by Snowden ‘not justified by fight against terrorism’

  08-12-2014 15:03
  
  Report by Nils Muižnieks, commissioner for human rights at the Council of Europe, says ‘secret, massive and indiscriminate’ intelligence work is contrary to rule of lawThe “secret, massive and indiscriminate” surveillance conducted by intelligence services and disclosed by the former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden cannot be justified by the fight against terrorism, the most senior human rights official in Europe has warned.In a direct challenge to the United Kingdom and other
  
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• UK aid spending target closer to becoming law - Devex

  08-12-2014 14:19
  UK aid spending target closer to becoming law
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  Foreign aid advocates in the United Kingdom breathed a sigh of relief as an overwhelming majority of lawmakers under the House of Commons agreed Friday to enshrine into law the U.K. government's foreign aid spending commitment. With 146 votes in ...
  
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• Disabled men lose high court bid to stop Independent Living Fund closure

  08-12-2014 14:07
  
  Judge rules that Mike Penning, former minister for disabled people, had not breached equality laws over ending support to live in the communityTwo severely disabled men who use a fund for people with disabilities to live and work in the community have lost their bid to overturn the government’s decision to close it next June.The high court ruled that Mike Penning, former minister for disabled people, had not breached equality laws in announcing the closure of the Independent Living Fund in Mar
  
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• IT failure throws courts into ‘chaos’

  08-12-2014 13:53
  
  XHIBIT provides hearing information for nearly 100 Crown courts.
  
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• Chelsea Manning was transgender 'in secret' while serving in US army

  08-12-2014 13:31
  
  Soldier jailed over Wikileaks writes for Guardian from military prison
  Says: ‘We’re banned unless we serve as trans people in secret, as I did’‘I am a transgender woman and the government is denying my civil rights’Chelsea Manning, the soldier jailed for her part in the Wikileaks affair, has revealed that she was transgender “in secret” while serving in the US army.At the time of her May 2010 arrest over the leaking military and diplomatic documents, Manning was known as Bradley. U
  
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• Who is Jackie? Rolling Stone's rape story is about a person – and I believe her | Jessica Valenti

  08-12-2014 13:15
  
  No matter how the frenzy of denial ends, there is a reason that people believe this young woman: because there are too many people like herThere’s not a lot we know about Jackie, not really. She’s a third-year student at the University of Virginia who says that, when she was 18 and in her first year of college, she was raped by a group of fraternity men. She didn’t report the attack to the police or the school, instead confiding – a full, pained two years later – to the members of a st
  
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• Bus firms not required to force parents with buggies to move for wheelchairs

  08-12-2014 13:10
  
  Appeal court makes ruling in case in which woman refused to move pushchair from bay designated for wheelchair usersBus companies are not required by law to force parents with buggies to make way for wheelchair users in designated spaces, the court of appeal has ruled.The “proper remedy” for wheelchair users to get improvements in such cases is to ask parliament, three judges ruled. Continue reading...
  
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• Shrien Dewani cleared of honeymoon murder of wife Anni Dewani

  08-12-2014 12:50
  
  South Africa judge dismisses case against British businessman after condemning evidence of chief prosecution witness
  
  • The ruling as it happened The British businessman Shrien Dewani has been cleared of murdering his wife in an elaborate taxi hijack plot on their honeymoon in South Africa.The Cape Town judge Jeanette Traverso declared Dewani to be not guilty of charges that he coordinated Anni Dewani’s 2010 murder. Continue reading...
  
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• Government kicks asbestos review into long grass

  08-12-2014 12:36
  
  Justice minister says review will happen but gives no details about when or how.
  
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• Government kicks absestos review into long grass

  08-12-2014 12:36
  
  Justice minister says review will happen but gives no details about when or how.
  
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• New police courts 'can speed up justice'

  08-12-2014 12:02
  
  Criminal justice system ’inefficient and slow’, says former prison governor.
  
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• Judge rules Jehovah’s Witness boy can receive blood transfusion

  08-12-2014 11:57
  
  High court ruling says decision made in youngster’s best interests despite religious objections from parentsA high court judge has ruled that the son of two devout Jehovah’s Witnesses can be given a blood transfusion despite religious objections from his parents.Mr Justice Moylan was told by doctors that the “very young” boy had suffered severe burns in an accident and might need a blood transfusion. Continue reading...
  
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• Quindell calls in accountants to review cash plans

  08-12-2014 11:57
  
  Group insists current trading position is ‘robust’ despite share price tumult.
  
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• North Korea likens fate of modern-day US to the fall of the Roman empire

  08-12-2014 10:09
  
  Pyongyang issues dire warning from history in response to Barack Obama speech on contemporary America’s legacyIn Australia last month, President Barack Obama spoke about the present day’s place in history.“I often tell young people in America that, even with today’s challenges, this is the best time in history to be alive,” the president said at the University of Queensland. The president’s 15 November speech was followed by one by then-Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, who explained
  
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• Roger Gyles appointed Australia's national security monitor

  08-12-2014 05:05
  
  Tony Abbott announces oversight role for former supreme court judge, saying his first task will be to examine the impact new laws have on journalistsThe federal government has appointed an interim monitor of Australia’s national security legislation, whose first task will be to examine the impact of new security laws on journalists.Tony Abbott announced on Sunday that Roger Gyles has taken up an immediate acting appointment as the independent national security legislation monitor, with a view
  
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• European Commission launches find-a-lawyer search engine – without England ... - Legal Futures

  08-12-2014 01:17
  
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  European Commission launches find-a-lawyer search engine – without England ...
  Legal Futures
  The European Commission has launched today a new online find-a-lawyer search engine, enabling potential clients to find lawyers in 17 countries, including France, Germany, Spain and Scotland – but not England and Wales. The search engine, available ...
  
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