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• Massachusetts prison does not have to pay for inmate’s sex change, court rules

  16-12-2014 21:40
  
  Michelle Kosilek, born Robert Kosilek, has waged legal battle to get surgery
  Prisoner serving life for murder says she has gender identity disorderA federal appeals court has overturned a ruling ordering Massachusetts prison officials to provide taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery for an inmate convicted of murder.Michelle Kosilek, born Robert Kosilek, has waged a protracted legal battle for the surgery she says is needed to relieve the mental anguish caused by gender-identity disorder. Co
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon taunts Labour over Smith commission report

  16-12-2014 21:15
  
  Scottish first minister seizes on STUC’s negative reaction to report on further devolution of powers to the Scots parliamentDuring a combative first minister’s questions on Thursday, Nicola Sturgeon taunted Labour with the Scottish Trades Union Congress’s verdict on the Smith commission’s recommendations as “underwhelming”.The STUC’s general secretary, Grahame Smith, insisted that “control over employment law, equalities and minimum wages is a necessity if inequality is to be eff
  
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• Family of black man fatally shot by police in Ohio Walmart files lawsuit

  16-12-2014 20:09
  
  John Crawford III was holding unloaded air rifle that sat on shelf for two days
  Police say they fired after he did not respond to orders to drop the weapon
  Witnesses contradict police account of warnings before Walmart shootingVideo shows John Crawford’s girlfriend aggressively questioned by police
  The family of a young black man fatally shot by police as he held an unloaded air rifle inside an Ohio Walmart has filed a federal lawsuit against the officers involved in his death and the retail
  
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• KanaVape: Britain's first cannabis e-joint is now available to buy and is ... - Metro

  16-12-2014 19:40
  
  The Week UK
  KanaVape: Britain's first cannabis e-joint is now available to buy and is ...
  Metro
  ... a device similar to electronic cigarettes but with cannabinoids, will be available to buy online from Thursday next week, Metro.co.uk can reveal. The makers of Britain's first e-joint – Antonin Cohen and Sebastien Beguerie – claim their product is ...
  Kanavape: 'legal' cannabis e-cigarette to go on sale in UKThe Week UK
  
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• Bill Cosby's wife wants to know who the real victim is. There are all too many options | Jessica Valenti

  16-12-2014 19:35
  
  People tell themselves the most outrageous stories, just so they can keep living their lives – even just to make it to the next dayThere’s standing by your man. And then there’s Camille Cosby.
  On Monday, Bill Cosby’s wife Camille appeared to do the former, as she finally spoke out to defend her husband against the nearly two dozen women who claim they were drugged and, in some cases, sexually assaulted by him over the last few decades. In a statement, she called Bill Cosby – with who
  
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• Non-believers push for legal recognition of humanist weddings

  16-12-2014 19:26
  
  Government due to respond to call for non-religious marriages to be enforceable in law, ending need for second, civil ceremonyWhen Emma Horan and Sam Whitney get married next summer they will commit themselves to each other in a special place, surrounded by their family and closest friends, but, as things stand, the wedding ceremony will not be recognised in law because their belief system is not based on religion.They are one of the hundreds of couples in England and Wales due to have a humanis
  
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• Judge censures Channel 4 News over ‘misleading’ report on child abuser’s conviction

  16-12-2014 18:22
  
  Practice of police prerecording media interviews described as ‘repugnant’ after prematurely launched ITN story nearly caused collapse of Simon Harris trialBritish former teacher convicted of abusing Kenyan boys
  A costly eight-week trial of one of Britain’s most prolific child abusers nearly collapsed at the 11th hour after Channel 4 News published “misleading and inaccurate” material about the story, it can be revealed.Simon Harris was found guilty at Birmingham crown court on Tuesday
  
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• Brazil's attorney general files criminal complaint over rape taunt in Congress

  16-12-2014 17:52
  
  Rio politician tells lawmaker he ‘wouldn’t rape her’ because she’s not worth it
  It is second time rightwinger Jair Bolsonaro used rape comment in Congress
  Brazil’s attorney general has filed criminal charges against a notoriously misogynistic congressman who taunted a fellow lawmaker with the words: “I wouldn’t rape you. You’re not worth it.”It was the second time Jair Bolsonaro, a representative from Rio de Janeiro, had used the slur in Congress, which is supposed to be the co
  
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• Criminal defence tendering ‘arbitrary and anomalous’

  16-12-2014 16:37
  
  Law Society believes ‘highly problematic’ process unfairly favours outsourcing giants.
  
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• Russia sanctions could threaten cases, lawyers warned

  16-12-2014 16:31
  
  EU and US have imposed sanctions against Russia over Ukraine crisis.
  
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• Inmate's family sues Ohio lethal injection expert witness

  16-12-2014 16:13
  
  Say doctor should have known inmate would suffer during January execution
  Helped create state’s policy and two-drug combo that had never been used
  Comment is free: I witnessed Dennis McGuire’s inhumane executionDoctor angry that Ohio executed inmate despite ‘horror’ warningThe state’s former expert witness on lethal injection should have known that a condemned inmate would suffer because of a never-used two-drug combo, the family of the inmate says in a lawsuit.The lawsuit, expanded fr
  
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• Sudanese soldiers using rape as weapon of war, says rights group

  16-12-2014 15:48
  
  Human Rights Watch says refugees from Blue Nile state have described a pattern of abuses including rapes and tortureGovernment soldiers in Sudan are using sexual violence, including the gang-rape of teenage girls, as a weapon of war against southern rebels, a watchdog has claimed.Refugees from Blue Nile state described a pattern of abuses including rapes, torture and the beating to death of men in custody, Human Rights Watch said. Continue reading...
  
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• 'English votes for English laws' plans unveiled - BBC News

  16-12-2014 15:12
  
  BBC News
  'English votes for English laws' plans unveiled
  BBC News
  Commons Leader William Hague has said legislation affecting just England should only be passed "with the consent of the majority" of English MPs. He announced four options for "English votes for English laws" in Parliament, including giving English MPs ...
  English MPs could veto English laws under home rule plan for 'fairness'Daily Mail
  Cameron questioned by MPs about climate change and ra
  
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• In 2014, people power took on the state in a battle for minds and streets

  16-12-2014 14:53
  
  Civilians from Hong Kong to Mexico, Ukraine to Burkina Faso, stood up to the establishment and demanded more accountabilityIt has been a year where the question of people power versus state hard power became ever more prominent. From Russia’s actions in Ukraine to Burkina Faso’s overthrow of a president whose rule had lasted 27 years, from Hong Kong’s upheavals to Mexico’s demonstrations, the story has been about civic aspirations and the reactions they foster. It has been about the batt
  
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• Turkish football fans go on trial for alleged coup attempt

  16-12-2014 13:37
  
  More than 30 Besiktas supporters face charges described by rights groups as an abuse of justice by vengeful governmentThirty-five Turkish football fans have gone on trial accused of attempting to stage a coup during mass protests last year, in a case that the political opposition and rights groups say is an abuse of the justice system by a government bent on revenge.Prosecutors are seeking life sentences for the supporters of the Istanbul team Besiktas. They are accused of helping organise the p
  
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• Rival sounds out investor action against Quindell

  16-12-2014 13:18
  
  PI firm Your Legal Friend claims shareholders misled by listed legal services company. 
  
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• Rival sounds out action against Quindell

  16-12-2014 13:18
  
  PI firm Your Legal Friend claims investors misled by listed legal services company. 
  
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• Councils 'ignoring legal duties to homeless children'

  16-12-2014 13:14
  
  Solicitor for charity accuses local authorities of ’Rotherham-type’ protection failures.
  
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• Supreme Court homeless appeals

  16-12-2014 12:59 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Three landmark appeals being heard this week should clarify who is ‘vulnerable’ and entitled to priority rehousing by local authorities.
  
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• Jimmy Savile victims’ compensation scheme approved by appeal court

  16-12-2014 11:26
  
  Judges uphold scheme set up for scores of women who say they were abused, after charity raised objectionsThe court of appeal has upheld a compensation scheme set up for scores of women who say they were sexually abused by Jimmy Savile.The three appeal judges heard the case after a charity which is the major beneficiary of Savile’s estate raised concerns about the plan at a hearing in London last month. Continue reading...
  
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• Failed London 21/7 suicide bombers lose appeal

  16-12-2014 10:58
  
  European court of human rights rules that Muktar Said Ibrahim, Ramzi Mohammed and Yassin Omar received a fair trialThree men who attempted to carry out suicide bombings on the London Underground in July 2005 have failed to overturn their convictions.The European court of human rights ruled that Muktar Said Ibrahim, Ramzi Mohammed and Yassin Omar received a fair trial. The men, who are Somali nationals, had complained that there had been a delay in allowing them access to a solicitor. Continue re
  
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• Spanish dominatrix lashes out at new pornography legislation in the UK - EL PAÍS in English

  16-12-2014 10:38
  
  EL PAÍS in English
  Spanish dominatrix lashes out at new pornography legislation in the UK
  EL PAÍS in English
  Legislating pornography is a thankless task. How does anybody decide which sexual practices are acceptable and which are not? The United Kingdom has just introduced a series of amendments to the law regulating online pornography. As of now, videos ...
  
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• Heroism bill survives Lords vote

  16-12-2014 10:17 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Government succeeds in pushing Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill through another parliamentary stage.
  
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• Attorney for woman who claimed Bill Cosby abused her says he has two sworn ... - Daily Mail

  16-12-2014 10:13
  
  Yahoo News UK
  Attorney for woman who claimed Bill Cosby abused her says he has two sworn ...
  Daily Mail
  Attorney Marc Strecker wrote in a sworn declaration filed in Los Angeles Superior Court Friday that he has reviewed photographs of his client, Judy Huth, with Cosby at the Playboy Mansion in the mid-1970s, the place and time she says the abuse happened.
  Lawyer: Witnesses back Bill Cosby sex abuse suitYahoo News UK
  Bill Cosby will not be charged for sexual abuse claimDaily Echo
  Bill Cosby accu
  
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• Lawyer Julie Taylor escapes Sydney siege only to find out that her colleague ... - Daily Mail

  16-12-2014 09:08
  
  Daily Mail
  Lawyer Julie Taylor escapes Sydney siege only to find out that her colleague ...
  Daily Mail
  A barrister who is 19 weeks pregnant escaped from the Sydney siege only to hear the heartbreaking news that her friend and colleague had tragically not survived. Julie Taylor worked with another barrister Katrina Dawson, 38, at Eighth Floor Selborne ...
  Sydney siege: Oxford-educated lawyer escapes only to learn friend did not surviveTelegraph.co.uk
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• North Korea asks United Nations to investigate CIA torture ‘crimes’

  16-12-2014 08:24
  
  Pyongyang says ‘so-called human rights issue’ is politically motivated and security council should look to CIA insteadNorth Korea has asked the UN security council to address the CIA’s harsh treatment of terror suspects instead of its own human rights situation.North Korea’s UN ambassador, Ja Song-nam, objected to the inclusion of his country’s human rights record on the security council’s agenda for debate as a first step toward a possible referral to the international criminal cour
  
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• We're entitled to ask why a firmer grip wasn't applied to Sydney siege gunman Man Haron Monis | Richard Ackland

  16-12-2014 07:53
  
  Facing over 40 charges and known to be threateningly unstable, Man Haron Monis had been granted bail three times in the past 12 months. Did the law fail?The post-siege process underway includes a torrent of indignation, fused with the brilliance of hindsight. For the families of those killed the grief is insurmountable. Other victims will be traumatised for a long time. Continue reading...
  
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• Lawyer: Witnesses back Bill Cosby sex abuse suit - Yahoo News UK

  16-12-2014 03:05
  
  Yahoo News UK
  Lawyer: Witnesses back Bill Cosby sex abuse suit
  Yahoo News UK
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A lawyer for a woman who says Bill Cosby sexually abused her when she was 15 stated in a recent court filing that he has interviewed two witnesses who corroborate her story. Attorney Marc Strecker wrote in a sworn declaration filed ...
  
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• Gay marriage law comes into effect in Scotland - BBC News

  16-12-2014 02:34
  
  BBC News
  Gay marriage law comes into effect in Scotland
  BBC News
  The law on same-sex marriages has already changed in England and Wales. The change in Scotland comes as a survey revealed a huge rise in support for same-sex marriage over the past 12 years. More than two-thirds of people (68%) agreed that gay ...
  Scotland's first same-sex marriage under new law takes place in AustraliaMashable
  Scotland's gay marriage law comes into effectInternational Business Times UK
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• Faceless 'Sharia-compliant' doll launched in UK - RT

  16-12-2014 00:27
  
  RT
  Faceless 'Sharia-compliant' doll launched in UK
  RT
  A £25 faceless doll – which goes along with a strict interpretation of Islam that forbids the depiction of faces – has sparked backlash among some Muslims after it was launched in Britain by a former teacher. Hijab-clad Romeisa – named after a follower ...
  
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