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• John Boehner explanation for foiled Capitol shooting plot at odds with FBI

  15-01-2015 23:32
  
  House speaker says plot was foiled by communications intercepted under Fisa surveillance – but FBI criminal complaint says secret informant was responsibleThe speaker of the House has offered an explanation for the apprehension of a suspect in a planned Capitol shooting at odds with the FBI’s description of the case. John Boehner said on Thursday that Christopher Cornell, the 20-year old Ohio man arrested for allegedly planning a Capitol Hill shooting spree, had his plot foiled thanks to com
  
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• Eric Holder calls failure to collect reliable data on police killings unacceptable

  15-01-2015 23:16
  
  Current FBI count is based on figures voluntarily submitted by some police departments but there is a better database tracking deaths of officersEric Holder, the US attorney general, said on Thursday that the government’s failure to collect comprehensive data on the number of killings by police officers in America was unacceptable and must be addressed.Speaking after a series of controversial civilian deaths at the hands of police prompted ongoing protests across the country, Holder said all p
  
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• Pressure grows on Saudi Arabia over blogger facing second flogging

  15-01-2015 20:59
  
  UN and EU seek end to free speech activist Raif Badawi’s punishment and call for Riyadh to end lashing penalty
  
  • A look at Raif Badawi’s writingsPressure is building over the case of Raif Badawi, the jailed Saudi blogger who is due to be flogged for a second time on Friday as part of his controversial punishment for setting up a website to promote free speech.The 31-year-old was flogged 50 times in a public square in the port city of Jeddah last week. He was sentenced last May to 10 y
  
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• UK Snooping Laws are a Threat to Apple, Developers, and Personal Security - The Mac Observer

  15-01-2015 20:51
  
  UK Snooping Laws are a Threat to Apple, Developers, and Personal Security
  The Mac Observer
  As Europe, and the world, start coming to terms with the horrific terror attack in Paris, politicians are trying to formulate a policy response. In the UK that has comprised of a rush to bring in legislation to allow further snooping powers by Prime ...
  
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• Delhi woman who said she was raped by Uber driver to sue in US

  15-01-2015 19:58
  
  Unidentified woman to be represented by Douglas Wigdor, who acted for Nafissatou Diallo in Dominique Strauss-Kahn caseThe women who said she was raped by an Uber taxi driver in Delhi plans to sue the smartphone taxi service for negligence in the US courts.The unidentified woman has instructed Douglas Wigdor, one of New York’s most high-profile litigators, to represent her. Continue reading...
  
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• Delhi woman who said she was raped by Uber driver to sue company in US

  15-01-2015 19:58
  
  Woman suing for negligence to be represented by Douglas Wigdor, who acted for maid in Dominique Strauss-Kahn caseA woman who says she was raped by an Uber taxi driver in Delhi plans to sue the smartphone taxi service for negligence in the US courts. The unidentified woman has instructed Douglas Wigdor, one of New York’s most high-profile litigators, to represent her.Wigdor said he was examining the possibility of asking a US court to exercise jurisdiction in the case because Uber’s conduct w
  
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• Judge orders Michigan to recognise hundreds of same-sex marriages

  15-01-2015 19:45
  
  Federal court rules state’s policy divested plaintiffs “of an essential human dimension in their lives”. More than 300 couples married during legal windowA federal court judge has ruled that Michigan must recognise more than 300 same-sex marriages that were performed in the state during a short window of legality last year. Reform advocates hailed the decision as a victory for marriage equality.Eight same-sex couples, who married after a supreme court ruling in March 2014 permitted equal m
  
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• UK Border Agency officer helped boyfriend con immigrants to pay off debts - Daily Mail

  15-01-2015 19:45
  
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  UK Border Agency officer helped boyfriend con immigrants to pay off debts
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  A UK Border Agency officer read secret files at work to give migrants 'tailored' visa advice in a £113,000 scheme run by her fake lawyer boyfriend. Anjali Patel passed on confidential information to 28-year-old law student Abdul Farooq, who was ...
  Vulnerable migrants scammed £113000 by indebted Border Agency workerRT
  Border agency officer used lover to con migrants out of £113k to pay gam
  
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• Adnan Syed's fate now lies in the hands of a Maryland appeals court | Rabia Chaudry

  15-01-2015 19:13
  
  The man at the center of the Serial podcast hopes a court will finally see the 17-year-old who entrusted his entire life to a lawyer who lied to himThanks to the NPR podcast “Serial,” millions of people are interested in the fate of Adnan Syed, who was convicted of murdering his girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999, when he was 17. Fewer know that on Wednesday, the state of Maryland recommended that a judge deny Adnan’s petition for a new post-conviction appeal. And even fewer know what that mea
  
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• Stuart Kerner: UK's top lawyer can't challenge suspended sentence given to ... - Mirror.co.uk

  15-01-2015 15:59
  
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  Stuart Kerner: UK's top lawyer can't challenge suspended sentence given to ...
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  A spokeswoman for the Attorney General's office said: “After a number of complaints, we carefully considered whether Stuart Kerner's 18 month suspended sentence could be referred to the Court of Appeal for being too low – as part of the 'unduly lenient ...
  'Lenient' sentence of RE teacher who was 'groomed' by pupil CANNOT be ...Express.co.uk
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• Grayling's legal aid reforms 'irrational', Law Society argues

  15-01-2015 15:53 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Judicial review of crime duty tender process began today.
  
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• Stalin’s grandson loses ‘bloodthirsty cannibal’ libel case

  15-01-2015 15:43
  
  Strasbourg court rejects Yevgeny Dzhugashvili’s complaint against article published in Russian Novaya Gazeta newspaperThe grandson of Joseph Stalin has failed in his attempt to win damages from a liberal Russian newspaper that called Stalin a “bloodthirsty cannibal” and said he was responsible for the wartime murder of Polish officers.The European court of human rights on Thursday rejected the complaint by Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, who had filed a defamation suit against Moscow’s Novaya Gaze
  
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• Attorney general unable to review teacher-pupil sex sentence

  15-01-2015 15:36
  
  Review scheme does not cover crime committed by Stuart Kerner, who got suspended sentence after judge said pupil groomed himThe attorney general is unable to review the suspended sentence of a teacher convicted of having sex with a pupil because his crimes are not included in the unduly lenient sentence scheme.Stuart Kerner, 44, was found guilty last month of two counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust. On Wednesday, he was given a suspended 18-month sentence by
  
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• Watchdog continues probe into claims that police spied on Hillsborough relatives

  15-01-2015 15:32
  
  24 Hillsborough relatives have alleged that they were placed under police surveillanceAn official watchdog is continuing its investigation into allegations that police spied on the relatives of the 96 who died in the Hillsborough football disaster.The Independent Police Complaints Commission has been scrutinising allegations that 24 relatives were placed under surveillance. Continue reading...
  
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• Mississippi schools under fire over efforts to curb Gay-Straight Alliance

  15-01-2015 15:27
  
  School district warned it may be violating federal civil rights law over requirement that students get parents’ approval to join clubA school district in Mississippi is requiring students to get their parents’ permission before joining a club in an effort to reduce Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) membership, even though the district doesn’t have any existing branches.Administrators in Rankin County school district referred to the GSA as “gay clubs”, when approving the new policy, saying th
  
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• Legal execs' regulator sets sights on solicitor firms

  15-01-2015 15:26
  
  ‘Several’ law firms regulated by the SRA are interested in switching to ILEX Professional Standards.
  
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• Fintech: how legal departments at banks are driving financial innovation

  15-01-2015 15:00
  
  With tech startups playing an integral role in the future of banking, innovation on the legal front can help unlock vast opportunities
  In a game of word association, chances are that “bank” and “innovation” will not be a pairing that springs to mind for most of us. However, when you consider the evolution of digital payment methods, online and mobile banking apps and the automation of branch interactions, the banking sector has been rich in innovation in recent years.When I joined Bar
  
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• AG considers unduly lenient sentence scope after teacher case

  15-01-2015 14:57 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  ‘It’s important the public can challenge what they believe to be exceptionally low sentences’
  
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• So a judge said a 16-year-old groomed her teacher – that’s nothing | Julie Bindel

  15-01-2015 14:30
  
  Appalling comments blaming victims are often heard in the courtroom, from judges and lawyers of both gendersAnother shocking trial, another shocking verdict. This week, Judge Joanna Greenberg QC gave a non-custodial sentence to a teacher convicted on two counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust. In justifying her decision, Greenberg said of Stuart Kerner’s victim, a 16-year-old schoolgirl: “If grooming is the right word to use, it was she who groomed you, [an
  
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• Disgraced barrister Constance Briscoe left penniless, court told

  15-01-2015 14:12
  
  Woman jailed for perverting course of justice in Chris Huhne scandal, said to be unable to pay £90,000 legal costsConstance Briscoe, the disgraced barrister and part-time judge jailed for perverting the course of justice in the Chris Huhne speeding points scandal, has been left penniless, a court was told.The 57-year-old author of the best-selling memoir “Ugly”, is unable to pay £90,000 legal costs incurred during her trial because she has no income and is supported by her 26-year-old
  
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• Max Mosley begins court action to stop Google showing pictures of sex party

  15-01-2015 12:41
  
  Lawyers for former F1 racing boss argue that search engine is a publisher and is misusing private informationMax Mosley, the former head of Formula One racing, has begun a UK high court action to stop Google showing pictures of him at a sex party.Having won similar claims in French and German courts, his lawyers have now initiated action in the high court in London, arguing that the internet search engine is a publisher and is misusing private information. Continue reading...
  
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• Paul Jewell could sue West Brom over pay cut after Tony Pulis brought in Gerry ... - Express.co.uk

  15-01-2015 11:50
  
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  Paul Jewell could sue West Brom over pay cut after Tony Pulis brought in Gerry ...
  Express.co.uk
  But Jewell tells a different story, saying his leaving was not by mutual consent and that the matter is in the hands of his lawyers. West Brom have not given details of why Jewell left so suddenly but will strongly defend any potential threat of legal ...
  Jewell exit in lawyer's handsFootball.co.uk
  West Brom baffled by Jewell exitBelfast Telegraph
  Paul Jewell quit West Brom after
  
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• James Caan investment firm doubles profits

  15-01-2015 11:41
  
  Turnover also increased significantly, up from £9.4m in 2012/13 to £12.4m last year.
  
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• SRA warning after increase in misuse of client account

  15-01-2015 11:37
  
  Spate of reports at the end of last year prompts new warning notice.
  
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• CPS drops another case because of 'unreliable' Mazher Mahmood evidence

  15-01-2015 11:11
  
  Prosecutors quash charges against 13 footballers over alleged match-fixing Prosecutors have dropped the case against 13 footballers investigated over alleged match-fixing after considering the reliability of evidence from journalist Mazher Mahmood, known as the “Fake Sheikh”.The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there was “insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction” in the case in light of the collapse of the Tulisa Contostavlos trial.“A file was passed to t
  
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• Criminal solicitors to fight plans to reduce on-call lawyers

  15-01-2015 07:00
  
  Legal groups bringing judicial review also planning protests against cutbacks they say will lead to miscarriages of justiceCriminal solicitors, who fear a sharp increase in miscarriages of justice, will challenge plans to cut the number of on-call lawyers attending courts and police stations.Judicial review of the government’s proposals to reduce duty contracts from 1,600 to 527 in England and Wales comes amid renewed threats of direct action by the profession in protest against cuts to the c
  
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• Victims of contaminated NHS blood launch legal case - BBC News

  15-01-2015 03:48
  
  BBC News
  Victims of contaminated NHS blood launch legal case
  BBC News
  Three men who contracted hepatitis C from contaminated imported blood have begun a legal case in the UK to challenge the compensation scheme. They say it is unfair under disability discrimination because other patients in the same scandal have more ...
  
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• Cameron to lobby Obama on last UK resident held in Guantanamo - TODAYonline

  15-01-2015 01:23
  
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  Cameron to lobby Obama on last UK resident held in Guantanamo
  TODAYonline
  LONDON - Prime Minister David Cameron plans to lobby U.S. President Barack Obama for the release of the last British resident held at Guantanamo Bay on his two-day visit to Washington this week, a government source and the detainee's lawyer said.
  
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