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• UPDATE 1-UK aims to pass law to ban branding on cigarette packs before May - Reuters

  21-01-2015 23:13
  UPDATE 1-UK aims to pass law to ban branding on cigarette packs before May
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  The move, aimed at improving public health and cutting the number of child smokers, is likely to crimp tobacco firms' profits and would see Britain follow in the footsteps of Australia, which in 2012 enacted a groundbreaking law forcing cigarettes to ...
  
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• Supreme court appears divided over Texas racial bias housing case

  21-01-2015 21:40
  
  Unclear if conservative majority exists to restrict scope of Fair Housing ActJustice Scalia makes remarks supportive of Obama administration argumentThe US supreme court on Wednesday appeared torn as it weighed a major civil rights case that could narrow the scope of discrimination claims made under the landmark Fair Housing Act. Based on the one-hour oral argument, it is not clear if there is a conservative majority on the nine-justice court that will cut back on what kind of conduct can lead t
  
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• Strip-search children as last resort only | Letters

  21-01-2015 20:30
  
  Strip-searching is a humiliating, degrading and frightening experience for anyone, but especially for children who come into contact with the police, a high proportion of whom may have experienced abuse and/or mental health difficulties. This is graphically illustrated by a case being heard by the court of appeal on Friday in which a 14-year-old girl with a mental health condition was stripped in a cell without her mother or other appropriate adult present.Last year saw welcome changes in childr
  
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• Chilcot: we know Blair was to blame for Iraq, so this is already a work of history | Simon Jenkins

  21-01-2015 20:22
  
  The longer we wait for the inquiry, the less we care about the outcome. Such reports should be immediate and quick, whatever the risks of unfairnessThe best war inquiry was into the Charge of the Light Brigade. It was conducted by the poet Alfred Tennyson in eight weeks, and reached a one-line conclusion, “Someone had blunder’d.” It has never been bettered.Everyone knows who blundered in Iraq. It was Tony Blair. Mild interest may still attach to the question, why? But no one is sitting in
  
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• Protesters disrupt supreme court on anniversary of Citizens United case

  21-01-2015 18:03
  
  Campaign finance demonstrators shout ‘one person one vote’ Court lifted limits on corporate election spending five years agoSeveral demonstrators disrupted the start of business at the US supreme court on Wednesday on the fifth anniversary of the court’s contentious ruling that lifted limits on corporate spending in federal election campaigns. The usually tranquil supreme court chambers were jarred when one person stood up and denounced the 2010 Citizens United v Federal Election Commissio
  
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• Eric Pickles discriminated against Romany Gypsies in green belt – judge

  21-01-2015 18:00
  
  High court ruling states human rights and equality laws breached by government department ‘calling in’ cases normally considered by planning inspectorsThe communities secretary, Eric Pickles, has “unlawfully discriminated” against Romany Gypsies wanting pitches in the green belt, the high court has ruled.In a ruling likely to affect many other Travellers, a judge said both human rights and equality laws were breached by Pickles and his department “calling in” cases which would normal
  
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• SNP ready to vote on English health laws, says Nicola Sturgeon - BBC News

  21-01-2015 17:54
  
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  SNP ready to vote on English health laws, says Nicola Sturgeon
  BBC News
  Ms Sturgeon said it was a "self-interested" position to take because if public funding of the NHS in England was reduced then that would have a "direct knock-on effect to Scotland's budget and our ability to protect the funding of Scotland's health ...
  
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• Stepping Hill case: Victorino Chua is a scapegoat, his lawyer says - The Guardian

  21-01-2015 17:35
  
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  Stepping Hill case: Victorino Chua is a scapegoat, his lawyer says
  The Guardian
  Victorino Chua, 49, was left to “carry the can” after the police poured huge resources into finding the killer poisoning patients apparently at random at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, his lawyer said. Chua, a father of two, is also alleged to ...
  Stepping Hill nurse Victorino Chua claims he is being used 'scapegoat'Daily Mail
  Nurse In Poisoned Patients Case 'A Scapegoat'Orange
  
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• Lawyers Push UK Over Reparation for 20000 Mau Mau - Capital FM

  21-01-2015 15:13
  
  Lawyers Push UK Over Reparation for 20000 Mau Mau
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  Nairobi — Lawyers representing 20,000 Mau Mau war veterans including liberation hero Dedan Kimathi's widow are urging the British Government to expeditiously settle a reparations claim out of court. Tandem Law which is representing the veterans, ...
  
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• Kenyans' lawyer says UK not interested in settlement - Lexington Herald Leader

  21-01-2015 15:10
  Kenyans' lawyer says UK not interested in settlement
  Lexington Herald Leader
  U.K. lawyer Freddie Cosgrove-Gibson said Wednesday that his clients are elderly and he was disappointed that justice was being delayed. Gibson, with law firm Tandem Law, says they filed the suit in 2013 and the hearing is scheduled to start May 5, 2016.
  
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• Corporations have rights. Now we need a global treaty on their responsibilities

  21-01-2015 15:10
  
  In a world of global trade, the only effective way to tackle corporate abuse of human rights is a binding international law, says Amnesty’s Salil ShettyRead the petition for the treaty here“The international scene is pretty bleak,” says lawyer Martyn Day
  It’s been lively, to say the least. The debate over a binding international treaty on corporate human rights responsibilities has revealed deep divisions between the south – largely behind it – and Europe and other OECD member countr
  
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• Global injustices: getting access to the law is still impossible for most

  21-01-2015 15:10
  
  He is famous for winning ‘unwinnable’ David-Goliath cases, but the head of the legal firm who took on Shell Nigeria is gloomy about the state of international lawCorporations have rights. Now we need a global treaty on their responsibilities“Well, it’s a fairly depressing landscape,” says Martyn Day. He doesn’t seem particularly depressed as he says it. In fact, he seems positively cheerful, radiating all the satisfaction and energy of a man doing a job he loves.
  That is probably
  
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• Kenyans' lawyer says UK not interested in settlement - U.S. News & World Report

  21-01-2015 14:03
  
  U.S. News & World Report
  Kenyans' lawyer says UK not interested in settlement
  U.S. News & World Report
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — U.K.'s Foreign and Commonwealth Office has shown little interest in starting negotiations for a settlement with 20,000 elderly Kenyans suing the British government for alleged torture in the 1950s, a lawyer representing the ...
  
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• Guantanamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi 'was forced to have sex with ... - The Independent

  21-01-2015 13:36
  
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  Guantanamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi 'was forced to have sex with ...
  The Independent
  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 ...
  Guantanamo prisoner 'forced to have degrading threesomes' with female guardsDaily Star
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• SRA attempts to extend consumer credit status quo

  21-01-2015 12:55 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  SRA seeks deferral of disruptive changes to allow for consideration of ‘alternative approaches’.
  
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• Consumer credit upheaval postponed once again

  21-01-2015 12:55 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  City watchdogs agree to delay regulatory changes as SRA seeks ‘best possible solution’.
  
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• Consumer credit upheaval postponed again

  21-01-2015 12:55 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  City watchdogs agree to delay regulatory changes as SRA seeks ‘best possible solution’.
  
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• Consumer credit decision – latest

  21-01-2015 12:55 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  SRA seeks deferral of disruptive changes to allow for consideration of ’alternative approaches’.
  
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• Consumer credit decision imminent

  21-01-2015 12:55 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  SRA to pronounce today on far-reaching reforms of regulation that could affect most law firms. 
  
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• Solicitors hit out at ‘pointless’ diversity survey

  21-01-2015 12:53 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal Aid Agency asks practitioners to take part in an equality and diversity survey.
  
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• Quarter of homebuyers 'would pay more' for conveyancing

  21-01-2015 12:24 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Poll by embryonic portal Veyo finds dealing with solicitors is ‘key stress point’
  
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• Law firm employee barred over £19,000 toner deception

  21-01-2015 11:58 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulator says former administrator should not be employed or remunerated by solicitor firms.
  
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• UN dismisses North Korea’s claim that damning human rights report is invalid

  21-01-2015 09:39
  
  Partial retraction of evidence given by defector and Pyongyang critic Shin Dong-hyuk is not significant, UN saysThe head of the UN commission that produced a damning report on North Korean rights abuses has dismissed Pyongyang’s claim that doubts about the credibility of a prominent witness made the panel’s findings invalid.“The partial retraction of Shin Dong-hyuk of the testimony he gave to the Commission of Inquiry on North Korea is not significant for the report, conclusions or recomme
  
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• Child Abuse Inquiry Lawyer Wants Victim Sacked - Yahoo News UK

  21-01-2015 02:57
  
  Yahoo News UK
  Child Abuse Inquiry Lawyer Wants Victim Sacked
  Yahoo News UK
  Ben Emmerson QC made the call after Sharon Evans, one of two abuse survivors who sits on the panel, told MPs investigating failures in the inquiry that the lawyer had "overstepped the mark". She told MPs the legal adviser had attempted to influence her ...
  Keith Vaz: Child abuse panel members 'intimidated' over what they can say to ...Telegraph.co.uk
  Theresa May's child abuse panel member claim
  
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