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• Saudi blogger faces next 50 lashes as Saudi Arabia ignores global protests

  14-01-2015 21:08
  
  Wife of Raif Badawi says he may not be able to withstand more punishment as second installment of 1,000-lash sentence nears
  A look at the writings of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi – sentenced to 1,000 lashes
  Raif Badawi, the Saudi liberal convicted of publishing a blog, has been told he will again be flogged 50 times on Friday – the second part of his 1,000-lash sentence which also includes a 10-year jail term.The US, Britain and other western governments had all called for the punishment to be
  
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• Saudi blogger faces next 50 lashes as government ignores global protests

  14-01-2015 21:08
  
  Wife of Raif Badawi says he may not be able to withstand more punishment as second installment of 1,000-lash sentence nears
  A look at the writings of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi – sentenced to 1,000 lashes
  Raif Badawi, the Saudi liberal convicted of publishing a blog, has been told he will again be flogged 50 times on Friday – the second part of his 1,000-lash sentence which also includes a 10-year jail term.The US, Britain and other western governments had all called for the punishment to be
  
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• Saudi blogger faces next 50 lashes as Amnesty calls on UK government to act

  14-01-2015 21:08
  
  Wife of Raif Badawi says he may not be able to withstand more punishment as second installment of 1,000-lash sentence nears
  
  A look at the writings of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi –sentenced to 1,000 lashesRaif Badawi, the Saudi liberal convicted of publishing a blog, has been told he will again be flogged 50 times on Friday – the second part of his 1,000-lash sentence which also includes a 10-year jail term.The US, Britain and other western governments had all called for the punishment to
  
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• US criticizes Saudi sentence of human rights lawyer - Yahoo News UK

  14-01-2015 21:08
  
  Times LIVE
  US criticizes Saudi sentence of human rights lawyer
  Yahoo News UK
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is criticizing Saudi Arabia for extending the prison sentence of a human rights attorney for "exercising his rights to freedom of expression and association." Walid Abu al-Khair has defended individuals including a Saudi ...
  Saudi lawyer given five more years in jail for seditionLaw Gazette
  
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• The US must end the use of paralytic drugs when executing prisoners | Mark Heath, MD

  14-01-2015 20:11
  
  The government claims that midazolam will produce humane deaths. Witnesses and the courts should be to observe that without the opacity of paralysis Oklahoma leaves drug cocktail unchanged in first executions since botched procedure
  When the state uses a paralytic drug in the course of executing a condemned prisoner – and successfully delivers it into the person’s circulation –the prisoner will appear tranquil and comfortable, and will die of suffocation whether they are unconscious or the
  
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• Inquiries ordered into destruction of Northern Ireland shoot-to-kill evidence

  14-01-2015 20:09
  
  Evidence, including two secret tapes, was lost after two people were shot by the RUC in Country Armagh in 1982Two investigations have been ordered into the withholding and destruction of evidence connected to one of the so-called shoot-to-kill incidents of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.The region’s director of public prosecutions has instructed the chief constable and the police ombdusman to launch inquiries into how evidence, including two secret tapes, was lost after an incident in County
  
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• Serbian transgender army officer was forced to retire, says rights group

  14-01-2015 20:05
  
  Activists say veteran major was discriminated against after her transgender identity was deemed a threat to army’s reputationA rights group has accused Serbia’s defence ministry of discrimination over the forced retirement of a veteran officer whose transgender identity was deemed a threat to the reputation of the army.The Balkan country, which aspires to one day join the European Union, is under pressure to promote greater tolerance for minorities within a strongly conservative society. Con
  
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• Judge denies Tsarnaev lawyers' motion to delay trial in wake of Charlie Hebdo attack

  14-01-2015 19:47
  
  Second stage of jury selection scheduled to start Tuesday in Boston Marathon suspect’s trial, despite legal team claiming ‘striking’ similarities between attacks Boston Marathon bombing: how the city coped with its deadly terror attack
  From ‘Boston Strong’ to ‘Je suis Charlie’: can bomb suspect get a fair trial?
  The judge in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has denied another motion by the defence to delay the trial in the wake of the attack on Charlie Hebdo.The second stage of jury
  
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• Motorcyclists gear up for legal challenge over rural rides

  14-01-2015 19:37
  
  Case involving Trail Riders Fellowship’s request for right to ride on five ancient Dorset lanes and digitally-enhanced maps goes to supreme courtA full-throttle legal challenge over motorcyclists’ rights to ride along Dorset’s rural tracks reaches the UK’s highest court on Thursday – via a detour though digitally-enhanced maps.The test case, which could affect scores of other applications to redesignate paths and bridleways across England and Wales, will be heard by the supreme court o
  
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• Body found in Kenya river is not missing ICC witness Meshack Yebei's

  14-01-2015 19:26
  
  Fingerprints are not those of Meshack Yebei, witness in deputy president’s trial
  Yebei, who disappeared on 28 December, had been offered safe residency by court
  Fingerprints retrieved from a body found in a Kenyan river do not match those of a missing witness in the crimes against humanity trial of Kenya’s deputy president, a police official said on Wednesday.The fingerprints do not belong to Meshack Yebei, the missing witness in the trial at the international criminal court (ICC) in The Hag
  
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• Police could be deployed within Feltham young offenders’ institution

  14-01-2015 19:19
  
  Youth Justice Board is in talks to embed officers within YOI, named as most violent prison in England and WalesPolice could be embedded within a jail for teenagers where a scathing independent report has identified high levels of “unpredictable and reckless” violence.The Youth Justice Board has confirmed that it is in discussions with the Mayor of London’s policing and crime unit (Mopac) to redeploy police officers from the streets to Feltham young offenders’ institution, named last year
  
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• Tsarnaev lawyers' motion to delay trial in wake of Charlie Hebdo attacks denied

  14-01-2015 18:01
  
  Second stage of jury selection scheduled to start Tuesday in Boston Marathon suspect’s trial, despite legal team claiming ‘striking’ similarities between attacks Boston Marathon bombing: how the city coped with its deadly terror attack
  From ‘Boston Strong’ to ‘Je suis Charlie’: can bomb suspect get a fair trial?
  The judge in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has denied another motion by the defence to delay the trial in the wake of the attack on Charlie Hebdo.The second stage of jury
  
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• Cameron to lobby Obama on last UK resident held in Guantanamo - lawyer - Reuters UK

  14-01-2015 16:37
  Reuters UK
  Cameron to lobby Obama on last UK resident held in Guantanamo - lawyer
  Reuters UK
  LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to lobby U.S. President Barack Obama for the release of the last British resident held at Guantanamo Bay when he visits Washington this week, the detainee's lawyer said on Wednesday.
  
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• Broadchurch murder trial scenes 'daft' and 'legal nonsense', blasts leading ... - Express.co.uk

  14-01-2015 16:33
  
  Express.co.uk
  Broadchurch murder trial scenes 'daft' and 'legal nonsense', blasts leading ...
  Express.co.uk
  The experienced lawyer said he could "practically hear the tears of the legal advisor" after producers made basic errors - such as failing to discharge the jury to allow for a legal argument, irrelevant questioning from the defence counsel and the ...
  
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• Cameron to lobby Obama on last UK resident held in Guantanamo: lawyer - Reuters

  14-01-2015 16:24
  
  Reuters
  Cameron to lobby Obama on last UK resident held in Guantanamo: lawyer
  Reuters
  LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to lobby U.S. President Barack Obama for the release of the last British resident held at Guantanamo Bay when he visits Washington this week, the detainee's lawyer said on Wednesday.
  Guantanamo Bay: What next for Cuba prison camp?BBC News
  
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• West brom baffled by jewell exit - Daily Mail

  14-01-2015 16:17
  
  Halstead Gazette
  West brom baffled by jewell exit
  Daily Mail
  It is in the hands of my lawyer. I will not be making any further comment at this stage." Albion are baffled by Jewell's stance as it is understood whilst terms were agreed, no contract was ever signed, disputing strongly they reneged on any deal ...
  Paul Jewell quit West Brom over alleged pay cut rowExpress.co.uk
  Paul Jewell quit West Brom after being asked to take a pay cut to accommodate ...Telegraph.co.uk
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• How Vanderbilt vandalism investigation turned into dorm rape allegations

  14-01-2015 15:57
  
  Video surveillance tape showed incapacitated Nashville student being filmed
  Brandon Vandenburg and Corey Batey are being tried on five counts of rape
  Had it not been for an act of vandalism, four former Vanderbilt football players probably would not have been charged with rape.Deputy District Attorney General Tom Thurman told jurors Tuesday that the vandalism, which occurred the same night as the alleged attack, prompted Vanderbilt officials to take a look at video surveillance footage of one of
  
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• One in three UK female students sexually assaulted or abused on campus - Telegraph.co.uk

  14-01-2015 13:15
  
  Telegraph.co.uk
  One in three UK female students sexually assaulted or abused on campus
  Telegraph.co.uk
  The report's author, Louise Whitfield, a partner at Deighton Pierce Glynn and specialist in public law, said: “UK universities whose policies at present would lead them for example not to investigate a rape allegation and to regard it as purely a ...
  Third of female university students 'have been sexually assaulted'Daily Mail
  
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• Nigel Farage claims that Muslims are running UK 'ghettos' according to Sharia law - The Independent

  14-01-2015 13:08
  
  The Independent
  Nigel Farage claims that Muslims are running UK 'ghettos' according to Sharia law
  The Independent
  “In parts of northern England we've seen the sexual grooming of under-age girls committed by Muslim men, in the majority, and for all of these things we are seeing the law not being applied equally, we're seeing the police forces not doing their job ...
  Nigel Farage And Fox News' Sean Hannity Agree 'Sharia Law' Has Come To ...Huffington Post UK
  
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• EU lawyer approves ECB bond-buying programme - BBC News

  14-01-2015 12:00
  
  BBC News
  EU lawyer approves ECB bond-buying programme
  BBC News
  A top European Union lawyer has said that the European Central Bank's planned bond-buying programme is legal. Advocate General Cruz Villalon said the ECB's Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) programme is compatible, in principle, with EU law.
  Top EU lawyer says ECB bond-buying programme legalYahoo News UK
  European legal approval for ECB bond buying programmeYahoo Finance UK
  
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• Five solicitors among 93 new QCs

  14-01-2015 11:39 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Majority of solicitor applications make the ’silk cut’.
  
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• Mark Wahlberg Shouldn't Be Pardoned For Past Crimes, Says Lawyer - Yahoo Movies UK

  14-01-2015 10:48
  
  Yahoo Movies UK
  Mark Wahlberg Shouldn't Be Pardoned For Past Crimes, Says Lawyer
  Yahoo Movies UK
  A former prosecutor who secured a civil rights injunction against a young Mark Wahlberg after he hurled rocks and racial slurs at black schoolchildren has said he should not be pardoned for an attack on two Asian men two years later. Judith Beals, a ...
  Wahlberg hasn't transformed: lawyerThe Courier
  
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• Nigel Farage says 'Mass immigration has led to Muslim 'ghettos' in Britain' - Daily Mail

  14-01-2015 08:54
  
  Daily Mail
  Nigel Farage says 'Mass immigration has led to Muslim 'ghettos' in Britain'
  Daily Mail
  'In parts of northern England we've seen the sexual grooming of under-age girls committed by Muslim men, in the majority, and for all of these things we are seeing the law not being applied equally, we're seeing the police forces not doing their job ...
  Nigel Farage claims that Muslims are running UK 'ghettos' according to Sharia lawThe Independent
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• Wahlberg hasn't transformed: lawyer - Belfast Telegraph

  14-01-2015 04:17
  
  Belfast Telegraph
  Wahlberg hasn't transformed: lawyer
  Belfast Telegraph
  Judith Beals, a former Massachusetts assistant attorney general, said she believed in "forgiveness and reconciliation" but Transformers actor Mark's request should be denied because he had not acknowledged the racial element of his crimes in documents ...
  Mark Wahlberg Shouldn't Be Pardoned For Past Crimes, Says LawyerYahoo Movies UK
  
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• New fracking rules will not apply in Scotland, UK government pledges - BBC News

  14-01-2015 02:42
  
  BBC News
  New fracking rules will not apply in Scotland, UK government pledges
  BBC News
  The UK government has agreed to exclude Scotland from laws making it easier for fracking firms to drill for shale gas. The Infrastructure Bill currently going through Westminster is set to allow underground access in England, Wales and Northern Ireland ...
  
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• Families could face arrest over 'vague' suicide law - Express.co.uk

  14-01-2015 02:03
  
  Express.co.uk
  Families could face arrest over 'vague' suicide law
  Express.co.uk
  She campaigned for a change in the law after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1996. When she died in April last year, Greens MSP Patrick Harvie took the bill on. Polls show two-thirds of Scots support a law change but the medical profession ...
  Assisted suicide law in Scotland 'needs clarity', MSPs toldBBC News
  Assisted Suicide Bill may be at odds with human rights legislation, says La
  
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• From 'Boston Strong' to 'Je Suis Charlie': can marathon bomb suspect get a fair trial?

  14-01-2015 01:03
  
  Legal analysts argue that after the Paris terrorist attacks the public mood in a city affected by the marathon bombing will make finding impartial jurors harderThe terror attacks in Paris could provide new grounds for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers to argue that his trial should be delayed and moved outside Boston because it may be even more difficult to pick an impartial jury with a new terror attack fresh in the minds of prospective jurors, legal analysts said on
  
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• Jim Murphy joins calls for Scotland to abandon women’s super-prison

  14-01-2015 01:01
  
  Critics of proposed facility in Inverclyde say it runs contrary to Scottish government’s own advice on treatment of offendersJim Murphy has lined up with pro-independence women’s campaigners to call on the Scottish government to think again about the building of a new super-prison for female offenders.Speaking at a lunch organised by the Scottish Parliamentary Journalists’ Association on Tuesday, the new Scottish Labour leader accused the Holyrood government of planning for failure, echoin
  
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