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• Ohio death penalty anonymity law is unconstitutional, inmates say

  20-01-2015 22:31
  
  Four death-row inmates sue to stop law that shields names of all associated
  Lawyer calls secrecy legislation ‘a clear violation’ of first amendment rights
  Opponents of an Ohio law that grants anonymity to nearly everyone involved in executing prisoners say the law infringes on the public’s first amendment rights. Attorneys also point to a lack of similar protection for those who carry out other controversial procedures, such as abortion and stem cell research.Four death row inmates are sui
  
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• Five Florida football players charged with gang-raping fellow student

  20-01-2015 21:48
  
  Girl says she was raped in woods and captured part of incident on video
  Two of the accused teens will be charged as adults and three as juveniles
  Five football players were charged on Tuesday with gang-raping a fellow student near their central Florida high school, and investigators say the 16-year-old captured part of the encounter on video.Two of the Winter Springs high school students will be charged as adults and the remaining three as juveniles, state attorney Phil Archer said. Continue rea
  
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• Recruitment industry needs to be regulated: temporary workers’ rights are routinely denied | Letters

  20-01-2015 21:18
  
  Aditya Chakrabortty’s article about the exploitation of agency workers (Ghost jobs, half lives, 20 January) exposes the ethical bankruptcy of the recruitment industry today. To me, as the owner of a London-based agency for the past 26 years, the picture he paints of systematic and routine denial of basic rights to workers is as familiar as it is depressing. All the advances that have apparently been made in recent times to improve the conditions of those who undertake temporary work have been
  
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• Clifford Chance silent on future of 'YouTube trainee'

  20-01-2015 19:18 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Aysh Chaudhry made national headlines this week after posting a 21-minute video in wake of Paris attacks.
  
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• Record award for family of Turkish boy whose circumcision was botched

  20-01-2015 19:11
  
  Boy who was taken to mass circumcision ceremony for disadvantaged children lost large portion of his penis and health ministry ordered $255,000 paymentA Turkish court has approved a record compensation payment for the family of a boy who had a large portion of his penis removed and burnt off in a botched circumcision operation, media reported. The boy, who is now six, underwent the operation when he was one year old in a mass circumcision ceremony for boys from disadvantaged families in the sout
  
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• Public access barrister wins appeal after BSB evidence blunder

  20-01-2015 19:10 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Bar Standards Board admits to ‘very regrettable and serious mistake’ in case of public access barrister.
  
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• Barrister wins appeal after BSB evidence blunder

  20-01-2015 19:10 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Bar Standards Board admits to ‘very regrettable and serious mistake’ in case of public access barrister.
  
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• Bahraini activist sentenced to six months in prison for ‘offensive tweet’

  20-01-2015 17:43
  
  Nabil Rajab posted tweet suggesting that Bahraini recruits to Islamic State were drawn from state security forcesBahrain has been urged to quash the conviction of Nabil Rajab, the human rights activist who was sentenced to six months in prison on Tuesday for posting a tweet deemed offensive by the government of the western-backed Gulf state.Rajab had faced a sentence of up to six years under the kingdom’s cybercrime law after suggesting that Bahraini recruits to Islamic State (Isis) were drawn
  
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• Supreme court rejects retailers' attempt to cut bank fees on debit cards

  20-01-2015 16:37
  
  Merchants must pay maximum of about 24 cents per transactionRetailers claim Federal Reserve misused data to set capThe supreme court on Tuesday rejected a challenge from retailers who claim the Federal Reserve allows banks to charge businesses too much for handling debit card transactions.The justices let stand a federal appeals court ruling that upheld the Fed’s cap of about 24 cents per transaction on so-called “swipe fees”. That ruling was a setback for merchants who pay the fees to ban
  
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• Lawyer of Guantanamo detainee: Donald Rumsfeld should be charged with ... - The Independent

  20-01-2015 16:07
  
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  Lawyer of Guantanamo detainee: Donald Rumsfeld should be charged with ...
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  In an interview with The Independent, his lawyer Nancy Hollander said: “The convention against torture, of which the United States is a party, requires that countries prosecute those who have tortured – why hasn't anyone been prosecuted? I'm talking ...
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• Forces claims not subject to fees regime

  20-01-2015 14:05 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Three members of the military brought claims against the Ministry of Defence after suffering an injury during training.
  
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• How are new UK laws made? - BBC News

  20-01-2015 13:45
  
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  How are new UK laws made?
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  The Houses of Parliament in London is where new rules that everyone in the country has to follow are made. Ayshah Tull in the House of Commons. Inside is the House of Commons. The government and its opposition meet here to debate the big political ...
  
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• Inquiry into unjust convictions caused by undercover operations to last longer than expected

  20-01-2015 12:36
  
  More than 50 activists have so far been wrongly convicted or prosecuted but this total could rise if inquiry finds police concealed evidence gathered by undercover officers in other trials For many months a leading barrister has been delving into the secrets of the police’s long-running undercover infiltration of political groups. What he turns up could well prove to be highly embarrassing to police chiefs. Continue reading...
  
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• Judgment reserved on criminal legal aid reforms

  20-01-2015 12:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Judicial review into crime duty tender process heard at the High Court.
  
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• Clifford Chance video: Trainee at top UK law firm uploads 21-minute online ... - The Independent

  20-01-2015 10:27
  
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  Clifford Chance video: Trainee at top UK law firm uploads 21-minute online ...
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  A trainee lawyer at one of Britain's top law firms has been forced to apologise after posting a video online in which he blamed the Paris shootings on non-Muslims who “killed our people and raped and pillaged our resources”. Aysh Chaudhry, a 22-year ...
  'Killed, raped and pillaged' UK Muslim lawyer rants at West over 'Paris slaughter'Express.co.uk
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• Professions in joint call for surveillance law reform

  20-01-2015 07:32 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society and Bar Council share concerns of social workers and journalists over Regulation of Investigative Powers Act. 
  
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• Big fall in firms not renewing PII

  20-01-2015 07:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulator reveals that 49 firms entered the cessation period after not renewing their insurance last year.
  
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• Video rant of trainee lawyer Aysh Chaudhry blaming non-Muslims for Paris ... - Daily Mail

  20-01-2015 01:02
  
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  Video rant of trainee lawyer Aysh Chaudhry blaming non-Muslims for Paris ...
  Daily Mail
  But Sam Westrop, director of Stand For Peace, a Jewish-Muslim interfaith group that tackles religious and political extremism in the UK, said Mr Chaudhry had used 'the language of terror' and that Clifford Chance's response was 'weak'. He told ...
  UK Muslim lawyer rants at West over slaughter in ParisExpress.co.uk
  Law trainee says 'kuffar who killed our people' are to b
  
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• Alan Rusbridger: Home Office must not remove right to protect sources

  20-01-2015 01:01
  
  In a speech to members of the defence and intelligence community, the Guardian editor expressed concern over threats to privacy and freedom of speechJournalism will be changed forever if the Home Office goes ahead with a proposal to remove the right to protect anonymous sources, the Guardian’s editor, Alan Rusbridger, warned in a speech on Monday.He also expressed concern that the right to confidentiality that lawyers, doctors, MPs, priests and others in the church are supposed to enjoy is als
  
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