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• Fugitive former Deadhead surrenders on drug charges 20 years later

  06-01-2015 23:45
  
  Matthew Samuel West showed up at Cedar Rapids jail after fleeing justice
  Convicted in 1992 and missing since ’94, he’s now awaiting sentencing
  More than 20 years after fleeing from justice, a former Deadhead convicted in an alleged drug conspiracy unexpectedly turned himself in, authorities said Tuesday.Matthew Samuel West, 49, showed up 27 December 2014 in the lobby of the Linn County Jail in Cedar Rapids to surrender. West was convicted in 1992 of conspiracy to distribute and possession wi
  
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• Alan Dershowitz vows to fight 'outrageous' underage sex allegations

  06-01-2015 22:15
  
  Harvard law professor accused of having sex with a minor on private planes but lawyers say allegations are categorically falseThe Harvard law professor accused of having sex with a minor on private planes and properties owned by the multimillionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein has launched a legal bid to formally strike those “outrageous and impertinent” allegations from a Florida court motion.In their own motion filed to the court late on Monday, lawyers for Alan Dershowitz, a renowned libera
  
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• Federal judge denies Kennedy killer's petition for freedom

  06-01-2015 22:10
  
  Sirhan Sirhan is serving life for 1968 assassination of presidential candidate
  Judge said Sirhan ‘failed to meet the showing required for actual innocence’Sirhan Sirhan, who is serving a life sentence in prison for the June 1968 assassination of US presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy, failed to persuade a federal judge to set him free because he was innocent of the crime. In a decision dated Monday, US District Judge Beverly Reid O’Connell in Los Angeles said Sirhan “failed to meet t
  
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• When should voluntary euthanasia not be an option? | Quassim Cassam

  06-01-2015 21:15
  
  The case of convicted rapist and murderer Frank Van Den Bleeken puts pressure on the standard arguments but for his victim’s sisters, there is only one answerThis week a court in Belgium announced that the convicted rapist and murderer Frank Van Den Bleeken would be put to death by a lethal injection, in spite of the fact that the death penalty is banned across Europe. Van Den Bleeken’s case was unusual: having previously been declared insane and not criminally responsible, he had himself as
  
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• The legal issues in the Ched Evans case - BBC News

  06-01-2015 20:50
  
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  The legal issues in the Ched Evans case
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  The legal position in England and Wales regarding Evans's return to professional football is clear. He is prevented from doing particular jobs known as "regulated activity" and typically jobs such as teaching, social work or health care that would ...
  Law firm sponsor stands by club over Ched Evans issueLaw Gazette
  Ched Evans to Oldham: Talks to continue tomorrow over decision on whether to ...The Independent
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• Employment tribunal fees price workers out of justice | Letter from Frances O’Grady, Len McCluskey and others

  06-01-2015 20:30
  
  Since July 2013, when the government introduced fees for anyone taking their employer to an employment tribunal, there has been a huge drop in claims. This is denying workers access to justice – and in particular women with discrimination claims. Official statistics show an 81% drop in claims lodged between April and June 2014, compared to the same time in 2013. All types of discrimination claims, for which a fee of up to £1,200 is now payable, have fallen: the worst affected being sex d
  
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• Harvard law professor vows to fight 'outrageous' underage sex allegations

  06-01-2015 20:03
  
  Alan Dershowitz accused of having sex with a minor on private planes but lawyers say allegations are categorically falseThe Harvard law professor accused of having sex with a minor on private planes and properties owned by multi-millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein has launched a legal bid to formally strike those “outrageous and impertinent” allegations from a Florida court motion.In their own motion filed to the court late on Monday, lawyers for Alan Dershowitz, a renowned liberal lawyer,
  
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• Federal judge denies Robert F Kennedy killer's petition for freedom

  06-01-2015 19:27
  
  Sirhan Sirhan is serving life for 1968 assassination of presidential candidate
  Judge said Sirhan ‘failed to meet the showing required for actual innocence’Sirhan Sirhan, who is serving a life sentence in prison for the June 1968 assassination of US presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy, failed to persuade a federal judge to set him free because he was innocent of the crime. In a decision dated Monday, US District Judge Beverly Reid O’Connell in Los Angeles said Sirhan “failed to meet t
  
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• End use of outdated term ‘child prostitution’, says MP

  06-01-2015 18:56
  
  Ann Coffey wants term removed from 16 pieces of legislation, arguing that it suggests victims were complicit in abuseAn MP has launched a campaign to remove all references to “child prostitution” from UK legislation, following a series of high-profile court cases that have revealed the endemic grooming and sexual exploitation of underage children across the country.Ann Coffey, the Labour MP for Stockport, called for the “outdated” phrase to be removed from 16 pieces of legislation, argui
  
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• Pupils’ lawyers challenge lower threshold for school exclusions

  06-01-2015 18:32
  
  Children whose conduct is detrimental – rather than causes serious harm – to others can now be removed by headteachersMany more children could be expelled from school under a less stringent behaviour test that comes into force this week, according to lawyers who represent pupils at appeal panels.A child whose conduct is deemed to be detrimental to the education or welfare of others attending classes can now be removed by a headteacher. The previous threshold required schools to establish tha
  
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• Open door: The readers’ editor on… mistakes made in an article about Amal Clooney and the ‘al-Jazeera three’ jailed in Egypt | Chris Elliott

  06-01-2015 18:18
  
  The Guardian conflated two key aspects of the story, and initially published it under a significantly misleading headline; I apologise on behalf of the newspaper for those errorsThe arrest and conviction of three al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt has been the subject of a worldwide campaign to secure their release. The men were seized from a hotel and given long jail sentences on charges of abetting terrorists, spreading false news and endangering national security.On Friday 2 January 2015 the Gua
  
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• Gary Morton obituary

  06-01-2015 17:44
  
  My friend and colleague Gary Morton, who has died aged 68 after a short illness, was a political activist, trade union official and barrister who specialised in labour law and fought for the jobs of journalists and printers during the move to new technology.Shortly after I met Gary in 1989, when he worked for the National Union of Journalists, he suggested that we write an article on industrial relations in the regional press. So began a project, focusing on the interface of labour law and indus
  
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• Ched Evans: Attorney general's office probe into website - BBC News

  06-01-2015 17:41
  
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  Ched Evans: Attorney general's office probe into website
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  The attorney general's office is considering whether a website supporting convicted rapist Ched Evans breached contempt of court laws. This follows a letter of complaint from the victim's father in November. A spokeswoman confirmed that a senior lawyer ...
  
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• Pirate Party: 'We are literally rewriting EU copyright law' - The Independent

  06-01-2015 17:40
  
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  Pirate Party: 'We are literally rewriting EU copyright law'
  The Independent
  "Taking a picture of a public building or work of art and putting it on your Facebook page may be legal in one country and illegal in another." She said she would do try and do away with pesky country restrictions: "The 'this video is not available in ...
  
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• Discovery of witness’s mutilated body feeds accusations of state killings

  06-01-2015 16:54
  
  Meshack Yebei had been due to testify against Kenya’s deputy president, William Ruto, at the international criminal courtThe gruesome murder of a man who had been due to testify in the international criminal court (ICC) trial of Kenya’s deputy president, William Ruto, has fed accusations that the government is orchestrating the killing of witnesses.Meshack Yebei’s mutilated body was found floating in a river in the early hours of Saturday. His eyes had been gouged out, his genitals chopped
  
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• Discovery of witness’s mutilated body feeds claims of state killings in Kenya

  06-01-2015 16:54
  
  Meshack Yebei had been due to testify against Kenya’s deputy president, William Ruto, at the international criminal courtThe gruesome murder of a man who had been due to testify in the international criminal court (ICC) trial of Kenya’s deputy president, William Ruto, has fed accusations that the government is orchestrating the killing of witnesses.Meshack Yebei’s mutilated body was found floating in a river in the early hours of Saturday. His eyes had been gouged out, his genitals chopped
  
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• Syracuse man who received $7.5m for wrongful imprisonment dies of cancer

  06-01-2015 15:54
  
  Served nine years after being convicted of trying to kill his wife in 1996
  Woman’s real attacker came forward and confessed to crime in 2003
  A central New York man who received $7.5 million for being wrongfully imprisoned for nine years has died of lung cancer.Jerry Gristwood told The Post-Standard of Syracuse) that his 48-year-old brother, Dan, died Saturday at a Syracuse hospital. Continue reading...
  
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• Belgium refuses serial rapist and murderer’s assisted dying request

  06-01-2015 15:11
  
  Frank Van Den Bleeken wanted state to help him end his life due to what his lawyer called ‘unbearable’ psychological suffering
  An imprisoned Belgian serial rapist and murderer whose wish to die had been granted by doctors will not now be euthanised, following a fresh medical decision.Frank Van Den Bleeken, who has spent 26 years in jail for repeated rapes and a rape-murder, will be moved from his prison in the north-western city of Bruges to a new psychiatric treatment centre in Ghent, jus
  
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• Data page – December 2014

  06-01-2015 14:38 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
  
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• UK Deporting 800 Foreign Criminals Under 'Deport First, Appeal Later' Law - Sputnik International

  06-01-2015 14:29
  
  UK Deporting 800 Foreign Criminals Under 'Deport First, Appeal Later' Law
  Sputnik International
  Some 800 convicted criminals of foreign origin are being deported from the United Kingdom as part of "deport first, appeal later" measures, the official UK government's website announced on Tuesday. UK Provided $2.6Bln in Loans to Foreign Fossil Fuel ...
  
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• Challenge to Northern Ireland's abortion laws to be heard in February - BBC News

  06-01-2015 13:56
  
  BBC News
  Challenge to Northern Ireland's abortion laws to be heard in February
  BBC News
  The NI Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) is seeking a change in the law to allow abortion in cases of rape, incest or "serious malformation" of a foetus. Northern Ireland's abortion law differs from the rest of the UK. A High Court Judge listed the case ...
  Date set for abortion law challenge in Northern IrelandIrish Times
  Abortion law challenge to be heard next monthBelfast Newsletter
  
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• Law firm sponsor stands by club over Ched Evans issue

  06-01-2015 13:24 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  In a statement published on its website today, Carter Moore Solicitors said it will continue to back Oldham Athletic in future.
  
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• Pritchard calls for rape anonymity laws to be reviewed after case dropped

  06-01-2015 13:06
  
  Tory MP, who was arrested on 2 December after voluntarily attending a police station, told case dropped due to insufficient evidenceThe Conservative MP Mark Pritchard has called for a review of laws handing anonymity to sexual assault complainants after Scotland Yard said he would face no further action over a rape allegation.Pritchard, the Tory MP for The Wrekin, attacked the “vindictive and outrageous story” that led to his high-profile arrest on 2 December. Continue reading...
  
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• Online conveyancing venture calls for views

  06-01-2015 13:03 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Survey to collect ‘representative opinions’ on the home-buying process. 
  
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• UPDATE...Cocaine Saga: Nayele Likely To Plead Not Guilty - UK Lawyer - Peace FM Online

  06-01-2015 10:52
  
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  UPDATE...Cocaine Saga: Nayele Likely To Plead Not Guilty - UK Lawyer
  Peace FM Online
  Nayele, who was busted in the United Kingdom (UK) for carrying 12.5 kg of cocaine, was scheduled to appear before the Crown Court at Isleworth yesterday after pleading guilty on her first appearance in court on November 27, 2014; however, the case was ...
  Nayele gets new lawyer – Former Crown ProsecutorCitifmonline
  Nayele changes guilty pleaspyghana.com
  
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• Judge blocks sheriff Joe Arpaio’s raids on undocumented workers in Arizona

  06-01-2015 01:58
  
  Sweeps by Arpaio’s criminal employment squad detain hundreds of people, but have been ruled ‘probably unconsitutional’A federal judge has ordered sheriff Joe Arpaio to halt workplace raids which net undocumented people in Arizona, in the latest legal restraint on “America’s toughest sheriff”.Judge David Campbell ruled on Monday that the raids in Maricopa county were probably unconstitutional and should be stopped pending a federal lawsuit which aims to ban them. Continue reading...
  
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