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• Is there still a case against Serial's Adnan Syed after Jay Wilds' interview? | Rabia Chaudry

  30-12-2014 23:20
  
  When I went to Sarah Koenig, I thought her reporting would uncover the deep inconsistencies in ‘Jay’s’ story. But this has been more than I imaginedSerial: The Syed family on their pain and the ‘five million detectives’Jay from Serial: ‘I was convinced that I would be going to jail for a long time’Serial final episode review: ‘An odd, inconclusive curveball’Jay Wilds was the key eyewitness in the murder case against Adnan Syed, which Sarah Koenig explored in the course of her p
  
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• Ukip appointed lawyer Matthew Richardson to keep 'bad stuff' out of public eye - The Independent

  30-12-2014 20:59
  
  The Independent
  Ukip appointed lawyer Matthew Richardson to keep 'bad stuff' out of public eye
  The Independent
  While Ukip has achieved almost unimaginable success this year, 2014 has also been a year littered with gaffes by party members. And its chiefs appeared to predict such blunders two years ago, by hiring an Oxford-educated City barrister to keep “bad ...
  Ukip hires City barrister to keep 'bad stuff' hidden, leaked documents revealMirror.co.uk
  
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• US calls for release of Americans in Iran, denies swap deal - Reuters UK

  30-12-2014 20:35
  Reuters UK
  US calls for release of Americans in Iran, denies swap deal
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  A lawyer for Amir Hekmati, an Iranian-American former Marine jailed in Tehran, was quoted in a report on Tuesday on Iran's semi-official Tasnim News Agency as saying that the United States had sought his release through a prisoner swap. "Those reports ...
  Lawyer: US offers prisoner exchange for detained ex-marineDaily Mail
  
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• Lawyer says US offered prisoner swap for ex-Marine held in Iran - Reuters UK

  30-12-2014 20:35
  Reuters UK
  Lawyer says US offered prisoner swap for ex-Marine held in Iran
  Reuters UK
  DUBAI (Reuters) - A lawyer for an Iranian-American former U.S. Marine jailed in Tehran was reported on Tuesday as saying the United States had sought his release through a prisoner swap, but officials in Washington denied any proposed exchange.
  Lawyer: US offers prisoner exchange for detained ex-marineDaily Mail
  
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• NHS computer systems contractor agrees to pay $190m penalty

  30-12-2014 20:11
  
  Computer Sciences Corporation acknowledges accounting errors relating to assumptions made about progress on long-term UK health service contractsA leading contractor on the ill-fated multibillion-pound programme to overhaul NHS computer systems over the last ten years has agreed to pay US regulators a $190m (£120m) penalty to settle allegations it broke stockmarket reporting laws by overstating past profits from UK health service contracts.Computer Sciences Corporation, which is listed on
  
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• Jibran Nasir: The quiet lawyer and activist who is taking on Pakistan's Taliban - The Independent

  30-12-2014 19:06
  
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  Jibran Nasir: The quiet lawyer and activist who is taking on Pakistan's Taliban
  The Independent
  The Taliban called Jibran Nasir, a charismatic 27-year-old lawyer, on his mobile phone. “If you don't take your actions back, and if you don't stop harassing the imam of the Red Mosque, then you are putting yourself, your family and your people at risk ...
  
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• Ireland's lack of action on blasphemy law disappoints atheists and secularists

  30-12-2014 18:01
  
  Atheist Ireland’s Michael Nugent says ruling coalition reneged on promise from 2011 to put controversial legislation to general voteIrish atheists and secularists have accused their government of breaking a promise to call a referendum over the Republic’s controversial blasphemy laws in the lifetime of the current coalition.Atheist Ireland expressed disappointment that the government had quietly dropped plans for a plebiscite to rid the country of the legislation, which secularists have argu
  
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• The right to free speech includes rap. Misunderstanding it makes bad law | Lily Hirsch

  30-12-2014 17:08
  
  The perception that rap songs are straightforward accounts of the actions of their mostly-black performers is erasure – and it’s being used in criminal casesEarlier this month, the rapper Bobby Shmurda was arrested in New York in a drug trafficking sting, and prosecutors wanted the lyrics of his rap music to be introduced into evidence. (The courts just ruled that that won’t be allowed.) In San Diego, Rapper Tiny Doo was recently charged with conspiracy in connection with gang shootings in
  
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• Father Gleb Yakunin obituary

  30-12-2014 17:04
  
  Priest in the Russian Orthodox Church who campaigned on human rights issuesIncredible as it may seem, there were three times as many churches open in the Soviet Union on the day that Stalin died in 1953 as when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985. The reason for this was simple: Stalin allowed churches to reopen during the second world war; Nikita Khrushchev systematically closed them between 1959 and 1964. The man who first exposed the enormity of this persecution was Father Gleb Yakunin, w
  
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• Father Gleb Yakunin

  30-12-2014 17:04
  
  Priest in the Russian Orthodox Church who campaigned on human rights issuesIncredible as it may seem, there were three times as many churches open in the Soviet Union on the day that Stalin died in 1953 as when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985. The reason for this was simple: Stalin allowed churches to reopen during the second world war; Nikita Khrushchev systematically closed them between 1959 and 1964. The man who first exposed the enormity of this persecution was Father Gleb Yakunin, w
  
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• Police officers who violate citizens' rights must be punished. Accountability is the only way forward | Redditt Hudson

  30-12-2014 13:21
  
  I was a cop, and I know that the police are subject to a different quality of justice than they sometimes mete out to black and brown peopleThere is one criminal justice system for citizens – especially black and brown ones – and another for police in the United State. As a former cop, when I watch the video of Eric Garner being choked out, of him having his face smashed into the concrete as he told the officers that were on top of him he couldn’t breathe, there is no mistaking the truth:
  
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• Papers reveal Thatcher's 'disquiet' about solicitors

  30-12-2014 12:49 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Cabinet minutes show prime minister concerned about the Law Society’s powers to discipline profession in the 1980s. 
  
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• Archives reveal Thatcher's 'disquiet' about solicitors

  30-12-2014 12:49 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Cabinet minutes show prime minister concerned about the Law Society’s powers to discipline profession in the 1980s. 
  
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• Let’s mark Debbie Purdy’s death by legalising assisted dying | Simon Jenkins

  30-12-2014 11:47
  
  The best way to honour the right-to-die campaigner would be for MPs to push through Lord Falconer’s dignity in dying bill
  
  • Poll: Should assisted dying for the terminally ill be legalised The life and death by starvation of the right-to-die campaigner, Debbie Purdy, should be celebrated by the Commons passing the House of Lords’ “dignity in dying” bill forthwith. An overwhelming majority of the public – 60 to 70% – wants it. The weight of legal and ethical opinion wants it. Ei
  
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• Norman Atlantic: Confusion over ferry fire survivors - BBC News

  30-12-2014 10:47
  
  BBC News
  Norman Atlantic: Confusion over ferry fire survivors
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  Italian officials say they cannot be certain how many people are still missing from the Norman Atlantic ferry off Corfu, with evacuation complete. One man died trying to escape the ship, which was on a night journey from Greece to Italy, and a further ...
  Stowaways raise fears of more deaths in Adriatic ferry disasterYahoo News UK
  
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• European data law: UK.gov TRASHES 'unambiguous consent' plans - The Register

  30-12-2014 01:21
  
  The Register
  European data law: UK.gov TRASHES 'unambiguous consent' plans
  The Register
  The UK government has raised objections to current EU proposals that would require businesses seeking to rely on "consent" as the lawful basis for processing personal data to ensure that that consent has been unambiguously given "for one or more ...
  
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