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• Google Forced To Obey Law, Changes U.K. Privacy Policy - kjrh.com

  30-01-2015 23:15
  
  Google Forced To Obey Law, Changes U.K. Privacy Policy
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  On Friday, Google agreed to comply with regulators' request to change its privacy policy to comply with the U.K.'s Data Protection Act. Google has been in a battle with U.K. regulators for the last several years. The stir began when Google consolidated ...
  
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• Canada's new anti-terror legislation prompts civil liberties fears

  30-01-2015 22:16
  
  Prime minister Stephen Harper announces Anti-Terrorism Act that would increase spy powers, crack down on websitesDeclaring that “a great evil has descended on our world”, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has unveiled legislation giving security forces sweeping new powers to apprehend suspected terrorists and disrupt their activities.
  The new Anti-Terrorism Act – the latest in a series of such measures adopted by the Canadian parliament since the 9/11 terror attacks – will make pr
  
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• Andrew Mitchell ordered to pay further costs after refusing Plebgate settlement

  30-01-2015 21:22
  
  Former chief whip ordered to pay costs on top of £300,000 already paid, after it emerges he was made an offer two months before case startedFormer Conservative cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell has been hit with further legal costs on top of the £300,000 he has already paid after turning down a settlement in his failed Plebgate libel action.The former chief whip had sued News Group Newspapers over a September 2012 story in the Sun that claimed he had called Downing Street police officers �
  
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• MoD faces tribunal challenge from whistleblower doctor sacked by text

  30-01-2015 19:41
  
  Stephen Frost, campaigner for inquest into death of David Kelly, fired after revealing alleged dispensing problems at army baseAn experienced doctor, who has questioned the official explanation for the death of weapons expert David Kelly, was dismissed by text and email while on a family holiday after he blew the whistle about alleged discrepancies in the dispensing of strong painkillers at an army base.Dr Stephen Frost has been granted permission by a judge to take the Ministry of Defence (MoD)
  
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• Secret 1981 file naming senior diplomat as paedophile is released to public

  30-01-2015 18:51
  
  MPs call for report on Sir Peter Hayman in National Archives to be examined by current inquiry into historic child abuseA secret file detailing official investigations into a senior British diplomat named in the House of Commons as a paedophile has been publicly released by the National Archives.The document about Sir Peter Hayman, prepared for the attention of the then prime minster Margaret Thatcher, was put together during late 1980 and early 1981, before the Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens
  
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• Alabama on potential collision course with supreme court over gay marriage

  30-01-2015 18:51
  
  Rulings in lifting of state’s ban on hold until 9 February as Alabama appeals decision on grounds of constitutional precedenceAlabama could be on the edge of a constitutional crisis because of tensions over same-sex marriage that have pitted the state’s chief justice against the supreme court in a battle over state and federal law.Last week, a federal judge ruled the state’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, just as her colleagues across the US have been doing over the past two ye
  
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• E-cigarette bar ban law proposed - Belfast Telegraph

  30-01-2015 18:48
  
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  E-cigarette bar ban law proposed
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  Electronic cigarettes would be banned from bars, restaurants and workplaces and made illegal for under-18s, under proposed new laws. Also in this Section. Burst-tyre Ryanair plane turns back · E-cigarettes ban proposed for Republic of Ireland ...
  
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• Homeless Veterans appeal: UK needs new law to stop 'Walter Mittys' posing as ... - The Independent

  30-01-2015 18:22
  
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  Homeless Veterans appeal: UK needs new law to stop 'Walter Mittys' posing as ...
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  Laws making it harder for someone to pretend they served in the British armed forces should be created to prevent the “cheapening” of the country's veterans, the head of a leading military charity has said. Dr Hugh Milroy, the CEO of Veterans Aid, said ...
  
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• Academics Create AI Lawyer-bot With Language Comprehension - Gizmodo UK

  30-01-2015 17:30
  
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  Academics Create AI Lawyer-bot With Language Comprehension
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  ROSS is its name, and it's been programmed to scan legal documents for the answer to questions, making life even easier for those who rake in the big money from patent disputes and people tripping over wobbly pavements. The developers of ROSS are the ...
  
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• Bishop urges Parliament to reject 'three-parent baby' law - Catholic Herald Online

  30-01-2015 17:18
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  Bishop urges Parliament to reject 'three-parent baby' law
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  A bishop has urged Parliament not to introduce a law allowing three-parent babies when it votes to amend the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act next week. Bishop John Sherrington, of the bishops' conference department for Christian Responsibility ...
  
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• Harriet Harman responds to Sarah Vine’s rape comments

  30-01-2015 16:52
  
  Sarah Vine, Daily Mail columnist and wife of Michael Gove, says drunken women are not without reproach if they are sexually assaultedLabour’s deputy leader, Harriet Harman, has criticised those who blame rape victims for the crimes against them, after Sarah Vine, the Daily Mail columnist and wife of Tory cabinet minister Michael Gove, suggested drunken women were not wholly without reproach if they were sexually assaulted.Harman rejected Vine’s arguments that the woman raped by footballer Ch
  
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• Argentina slams senator concerned over lawyer's death - Yahoo News UK

  30-01-2015 16:41
  
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  Argentina slams senator concerned over lawyer's death
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  Reuters/Reuters - U.S. Senator Marco Rubio speaks to the media after he left Temple Beth Am, where a memorial service was held for U.S. journalist Steven Sotloffin in Pinecrest, Florida September 5, 2014. REUTERS/Andrew …more Innerarity less.
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• When prison works: inside New Hall, the women’s prison where inmates are equals

  30-01-2015 16:19
  
  The UK’s female prison population has doubled in 20 years. Justice minister Simon Hughes says half of them should not be there. But what is the alternative?“When I was taken down, they said, ‘Look, when you get to prison, you have to put your head down and walk forward.’ So that’s what I did. I was having a shock reaction. A lot of it I can’t remember, even though it was only three-and-a-half months ago.” Ayishah is demure, intensely distressed, in her early 50s and beginning a thr
  
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• Contempt of parliament: bluster or real threat?

  30-01-2015 15:00
  
  Ben Emmerson QC was reminded of his legal obligations when he was called to give evidence before a Commons committeeWhen Ben Emmerson QC was called to give evidence before the Commons home affairs committee on Monday, the legal adviser to the child abuse inquiry was reminded by the chairman of his legal obligations. “The evidence that you give before this committee today is protected by parliamentary privilege,” said Keith Vaz. “It would be a prima facie contempt of the house for any witne
  
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• Prosecutors used the same legal strategy against Barrett Brown as they did me. Are you next? | Ladar Levison

  30-01-2015 12:45
  
  FBI agents and the state’s lawyers misrepresented events to create a false narrative, and the judges in both our cases bought itWhen it happened to me, I dismissed it as an anomaly. The government – while trying to access the private emails of my company’s 410,000 users – made material misrepresentations to the courts in a coordinated campaign to portray me as obstinate and uncooperative. Their intent? To manipulate a judge into accepting an unconstitutional legal theory. It cost me my b
  
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• Doreen Lawrence to speak at conference on police spying, corruption and racism

  30-01-2015 12:13
  
  Grieving familes and women will tell their stories of how undercover police spied on, and deceived themDoreen Lawrence, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen, is due to speak next week at a conference that will put police corruption, spying and racism under the microscope. She is among a series of individuals who are to speak at the two-day conference in London. Continue reading...
  
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• We'll scrap legal aid contract scheme, says Labour

  30-01-2015 12:03 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Shadow justice secretary says he will work with the profession to find alternative savings.
  
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• Cleaner banned from working in law firms

  30-01-2015 11:04 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Solicitors Regulation Authority issued ‘control of non-qualified staff (section 43)’ decision.
  
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• Defiant editor Alan Morison to return to face Thai navy defamation case

  30-01-2015 02:09
  
  ‘If bullies in uniform can silence reporters, then you don’t have a democracy,’ says Phuketwan editor charged for covering the plight of Rohingyan asylum seekersAn Australian journalist who is facing a defamation charge from the Thai navy and the possibility of a jail term will return to the country from Australia unrepentant for stories alleging abuse of Rohingyan asylum seekers by Thai authorities.“We must defend this,” Alan Morison told Guardian Australia this week. “If bullies i
  
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• Defiant editor Alan Morison returns to face Thai navy defamation case

  30-01-2015 02:09
  
  ‘If bullies in uniform can silence reporters, then you don’t have a democracy,’ says Phuketwan editor charged for covering the plight of Rohingyan asylum seekersAn Australian journalist who is facing a defamation charge from the Thai navy and the possibility of a jail term will return to the country from Australia unrepentant for stories alleging abuse of Rohingyan asylum seekers by Thai authorities.“We must defend this,” Alan Morison told Guardian Australia this week. “If bullies i
  
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• Aping Singapore & UK, law panel moots commercial courts - Daily News & Analysis

  30-01-2015 01:26
  Aping Singapore & UK, law panel moots commercial courts
  Daily News & Analysis
  To work on the lines of the United Kingdom and Singapore courts for speedy disposal of commercial disputes in the country, the law commission of India on Thursday suggested that the Centre set up commercial courts and commercial appellate divisions for ...
  
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• Labour would halt plans to slash on-call legal aid solicitors

  30-01-2015 01:05
  
  Sadiq Khan, promises to improve access to justice by launching an immediate review of the coalition’s proposed 8.75% fee cutsLabour in government would reverse coalition plans to slash the number of on-call, legal aid solicitors attending police stations and magistrates’ courts, the party will say on Friday.Sadiq Khan, the shadow justice secretary, has pledged to improve access to justice by launching an immediate review of the coalition’s proposed 8.75% fee cuts and to work with the legal
  
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• Late claimant’s bid to delay trial refused

  30-01-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  But judge does allow claimant to serve witness statement as he did not want to ‘artificially tie its hands’.
  
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