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• South Dakota same-sex marriage ban struck down by federal judge

  12-01-2015 22:16
  
  Ruling says: ‘Plaintiffs have a fundamental right to marry’
  Immediate stay pending appeal means marriages cannot yet startA federal judge has struck down South Dakota’s ban on same-sex marriage.The decision was immediately stayed, pending a possible appeal in the eighth US circuit court of appeals. Same-sex marriages are therefore still not permitted in the state. Continue reading...
  
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• Atlanta mayor accused of religious bias after dismissing fire chief over book

  12-01-2015 20:07
  
  Kelvin Cochran wrote homosexual acts are ‘vile, vulgar and inappropriate’Conservative Christians say decision is an affront to freedom of expression
  The mayor of Atlanta is facing a backlash from conservative Christians over his decision to dismiss the city’s fire chief for distributing a self-published book that describes homosexuality as a “perversion”.Kasim Reed fired Kelvin Cochran last week, after placing him on suspension without pay. The mayor said at the time he would not toler
  
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• Print body gets ABS licence to create spin-off

  12-01-2015 18:52 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  British Printing Industries Federation creates spin-off legal subsidiary.
  
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• Print body gets ABS licence to charge for legal services

  12-01-2015 18:52 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  British Printing Industries Federation creates spin-off legal subsidiary.
  
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• Wednesday's Charlie Hebdo will include cartoons of Prophet Mohammed - Daily Mail

  12-01-2015 18:24
  
  Telegraph.co.uk
  Wednesday's Charlie Hebdo will include cartoons of Prophet Mohammed
  Daily Mail
  This week's issue of Charlie Hebdo will contain cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed and the front cover will be unveiled tonight, the magazine's lawyer confirmed today. The surviving members of the magazine's staff decided to print images of the holy ...
  Charlie Hebdo's UK distribution partners play-down security riskTelegraph.co.uk
  Defiant Charlie Hebdo depicts Prophet Muhammad on co
  
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• What new snooping powers do PM and MI5 want – and what are the concerns?

  12-01-2015 18:03
  
  How David Cameron’s plans compare with what spy agencies are demanding – and what could be done insteadDavid Cameron appears to want to strengthen the laws that allow the security services to intercept communications so that no method or element of online communication is out of reach of the state, as long as they have a warrant personally signed by the home secretary. The security services complain that the growth of encryption of online data means there are already services available that
  
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• Obamacare appeal among cases supreme court declines to take up

  12-01-2015 18:03
  
  Justices also reject review of California water dispute and ask government to weigh in on whether they should hear Google-Oracle copyright caseUS supreme court declines review of Louisiana same-sex marriage case
  The US supreme court on Monday declined to take up another broad challenge to President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law.The court rejected an appeal filed by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and the Alliance for Natural Health USA. The groups had challenged v
  
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• Basque separatists' trial suspended after lawyers detained - Yahoo News UK

  12-01-2015 16:23
  
  Yahoo News UK
  Basque separatists' trial suspended after lawyers detained
  Yahoo News UK
  A trial in Spain of 35 members of Batasuna, the banned political wing of the armed Basque separatist group ETA, was suspended Monday after three of their six lawyers were arrested. "The trial was suspended, because of the detention of three comrades," ...
  
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• Travel-ban plans need more scrutiny

  12-01-2015 15:32 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Powers to seize passports need more judicial oversight - and legal aid for detainees - joint human rights committee reports. 
  
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• Police face new ethical dilemma in increasingly digital world | Joshua Rozenberg

  12-01-2015 14:12
  
  Officers pin hopes on new code of conduct and board of ethics in bid to quell concerns over electronic intrusion“I took a call at five o’clock this morning,” Supt Richard Cooper told me last week. “A girl had texted her friend to say she’d taken an overdose. She couldn’t be found.”It’s Cooper’s job to decide whether Gloucestershire police should ask telephone and internet companies for customer records that, in this case, could save a life. Requests from any officer in the forc
  
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• Beating your partner is a crime, not an illness | Julie Bindel

  12-01-2015 14:05
  
  There is a danger that rehabilitation courses for perpetrators of domestic violence send the wrong messageWhat stops a man from beating up and raping his female partner? According to research published today, it is not sanctions imposed by the criminal justice system, such as prison or probation, but attending a course with other abusers.“Domestic violence perpetrator programmes (DVPPs): steps towards change”, by the feminist academics Liz Kelly and Nicole Westmarland, is based on interviews
  
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• ‘Native’ Silicon Valley firm heads to London

  12-01-2015 13:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Technology and life sciences specialist Cooley opens its first office in Europe.
  
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• Officer at privately run prison ‘was drunk at work on Christmas Day’

  12-01-2015 13:28
  
  Police investigate incident at HMP Northumberland, run by Sodexo Justice Services, where union officials have criticised job cutsA police investigation is under way and a prison officer has been suspended after allegedly being found drunk at work on Christmas Day, the private firm which runs the jail said.Sodexo Justice Services, which runs HMP Northumberland near Morpeth, only gave brief details about the incident as police were making inquiries. Continue reading...
  
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• Quindell appoints new team as sale talks continue

  12-01-2015 12:11 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Group announces the recruitment of City big-hitters Richard Rose and Jim Sutcliffe.
  
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• Retro law will dampen confidence among investors: UK Minister - Business Standard

  12-01-2015 10:40
  Business Standard
  Retro law will dampen confidence among investors: UK Minister
  Business Standard
  Visiting British Minister for trade and investment, Lord Livingston, on Monday hoped two-way trade and investments between India and UK will increase with the Indian government's commitment to maintain rules and legislation without any retrospective ...
  
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• Lawyer for Prince Andrew 'sex slave' Virginia Roberts serving 50 years' jail - Daily Mail

  12-01-2015 10:30
  
  Daily Mail
  Lawyer for Prince Andrew 'sex slave' Virginia Roberts serving 50 years' jail
  Daily Mail
  And then there was the trophy wife, of course. Glamorous blonde Kimberley Rothstein, 40, was an estate agent when she became Rothstein's second wife. Now she's serving 18 months for trying to hide jewellery and other assets from prosecutors and ...
  Prince Andrew admits he has been 'foolish' following lurid claims he slept ...Scottish Daily Record
  Prince Andrew '
  
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• After Paris: Cameron meets to discuss UK terror law - Channel 4 News

  12-01-2015 09:14
  
  The Independent
  After Paris: Cameron meets to discuss UK terror law
  Channel 4 News
  Following the attacks, which began with the massacre of 12 people at the offices of satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo, the prime minister has pledged to introduce "more comprehensive powers" to monitor terror suspects in the UK. He said Britain ...
  David Cameron pledges new 'snoopers' charter' if he wins general electionThe Independent
  Live: Paris unity march remembers Charlie Hebdo an
  
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• Lawyer of Texas cop filmed firing his TASER at 76-year-old says there was ... - Daily Mail

  12-01-2015 08:07
  
  Daily Mail
  Lawyer of Texas cop filmed firing his TASER at 76-year-old says there was ...
  Daily Mail
  A lawyer for a police officer who was fired after shocking video footage showed him firing a Taser at a 76-year-old man has said there was 'nothing unreasonable' about the attack. Nathanial Robinson, 23, caused an outcry throwing elderly Pete Vasquez ...
  Lawyer: 'Nothing unreasonable' about stun gun on 76-year-oldYahoo News UK
  
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• Five ways to achieve climate justice

  12-01-2015 08:00
  
  A recent report by the International Bar Association suggests concrete steps to getting the law right for the victims of climate change
  We are learning to see climate injustice. We see it in the distressing stories of lives destroyed, epic droughts, floods and typhoons, and families and whole peoples uprooted. Climate injustice is not at first glance a legal problem any more than climate change itself is: it is economic, political, scientific. And yet, year after year, it is to law we turn for a
  
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• U.K. Must Alter Terror Law to Protect Rights, Panel Says - Bloomberg

  12-01-2015 01:16
  U.K. Must Alter Terror Law to Protect Rights, Panel Says
  Bloomberg
  “This gives rise to a very real risk that the human rights of U.K. nationals will be violated as a result of the imposition of temporary exclusion orders,” Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights said in a 43-page report published today. “We are ...
  
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• Anti-terror bill a threat to academic freedom, MPs tell Theresa May

  12-01-2015 01:01
  
  Universities should be exempt from duty, home secretary told by MPs and peers on parliament’s joint human rights committeeUniversities should be exempt from a new counter-terror duty that could seriously restrict academic freedom of speech, MPs and peers have told the home secretary, Theresa May.The warning from parliament’s joint human rights committee comes before the second reading on Tuesday in the House of Lords of May’s counter-terrorism and security bill, which includes powers that
  
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• US moves to liberalise are ‘just the beginning’

  12-01-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Washington state bar also proposing allowing non-lawyers to own stakes in law firms.
  
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• Solicitor warning over legal aid disputes

  12-01-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Rebecca Stevens has worked more than 100 hours pro bono for parents fighting adoption battle.
  
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• SDT: Yvonne Ruth Painter

  12-01-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll.
  
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• SDT: Richard Chan, Rajob Ali and Abode Solicitors Limited

  12-01-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the first respondent and the second respondent should each pay a fine of £15,000.
  
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• SDT: Neil Lawrence Jacobsen

  12-01-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll.
  
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• SDT: Maryellen Doyle

  12-01-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should pay a fine of £5,000.
  
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• SDT: Marc Joseph Levy

  12-01-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll.
  
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• SDT: Jean Harkin and Rachel Lloyd

  12-01-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the first and second respondents (both admitted 1999) should each pay a fine of £5,000.
  
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• New Law Society chief starts job

  12-01-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Catherine Dixon took up her post as chief executive of the Law Society last Monday.
  
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• M&A returns to pre-crisis levels

  12-01-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  City lawyers predict that efforts by China to relax regulations will boost cross-border investment.
  
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• Commercial property: dilapidations liability

  12-01-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  How the procedure should be followed when analysing wants of repair.
  
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• British rights bill pushed back

  12-01-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Conservatives admit draft replacement for Human Rights Act not yet ready.
  
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• Australia: extracting value

  12-01-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Australia’s mining boom helped to entice firms from the northern hemisphere. But while the legal services market has lost some of its lustre, local alliances are helping international firms do more business there.
  
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