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• UK lawmakers approve '3-parent babies' law - WTAE Pittsburgh

  03-02-2015 22:31
  
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  UK lawmakers approve '3-parent babies' law
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  Lawmakers on Tuesday voted in favor of a law that sets the stage for the United Kingdom to be the first country in the world to allow a pioneering in vitro fertilization technique using DNA from three people. UK lawmakers approve '3-parent babies' law ...
  
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• UK lawmakers approve '3-parent babies' law - KOCO Oklahoma City

  03-02-2015 22:28
  
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  UK lawmakers approve '3-parent babies' law
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  LONDON (CNN) —Lawmakers on Tuesday voted in favor of a law that sets the stage for the United Kingdom to be the first country in the world to allow a pioneering in vitro fertilization technique using DNA from three people. House votes to repeal ...
  
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• From scavenging seaweed to swearing, Rhode Island plans to ditch archaic laws

  03-02-2015 22:08
  
  Some of the laws cluttering up the state’s statute book are not just outdated, they are unconstitutional say reformers. So no more permits to feed pigs garbage …Rhode Island’s gardeners, boxers and shameless swearers beware: you could be breaking the law and not even know it.A law restricting the amount of seaweed Barrington residents can take from the public beach to use as fertiliser has been on the books for nearly 200 years. Since at least 1798 it’s been illegal to arrange to meet an
  
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• Sports Direct faces multimillion-pound claim from zero-hours contract workers

  03-02-2015 19:31
  
  Exclusive: Almost 300 employees excluded from bonus scheme that paid out to ‘permanent’ workers expected to file legal claims over next six monthsSports Direct is facing a claim for millions of pounds from nearly 300 workers excluded from the retailer’s generous bonus scheme because they were on zero-hours contracts.The employees were excluded from a bonus scheme that paid out about £160m worth of shares to 2,000 “permanent” workers in 2013. Continue reading...
  
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• UK corporate tax cross-border group relief rules 'compatible with EU law ... - Out-Law.com

  03-02-2015 18:17
  UK corporate tax cross-border group relief rules 'compatible with EU law ...
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  In its judgment, the CJEU acknowledged that the UK applied different rules to the losses of non-UK resident subsidiaries than it did to the losses of UK-resident subsidiaries. However, it was entitled to do so and, following the 2006 changes, did so in ...
  
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• UK lawmakers approve '3-parent babies' law - CNN

  03-02-2015 18:03
  
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  UK lawmakers approve '3-parent babies' law
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  London (CNN) Lawmakers on Tuesday voted in favor of a law that sets the stage for the United Kingdom to be the first country in the world to allow a pioneering in vitro fertilization technique using DNA from three people. The technique could prevent ...
  Britain is the first country to legalise 'three parent' IVF techniquesThe Independent
  UK Parliament votes in favor of '3-parent babies' lawwtkr.com
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• UK lawmakers approve 'three-parent babies' law - Zee News

  03-02-2015 18:03
  
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  UK lawmakers approve 'three-parent babies' law
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  London: British lawmakers Tuesday voted in favour of making the UK the first country in the world to allow IVF children conceived with DNA from three parents, a contentious step that has polarised opinion among activists and religious figures. In a ...
  
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• Proposed changes to US data collection fall short of NSA reformers' goals

  03-02-2015 17:52
  
  US intelligence community issues limited list of tweaks to data collection and surveillance at end of year-long effort to respond to Snowden revelationsThe US intelligence community has delivered a limited list of tweaks to how long it can hold information on ordinary citizens and hide secret trawls for data, responding to Barack Obama’s call for reform of its surveillance practices in the wake of revelations about NSA practices.
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• PII insurer liable for firm’s disbursement loans

  03-02-2015 17:52 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Court of Appeal orders AIG to pay almost £1m after finding disbursement loans are not exempt from indemnity conditions.
  
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• Indemnity insurer liable for disbursement loans

  03-02-2015 17:52 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  AIG to pay out almost £1m after appeal court rules loans to cover disbursements are not exempt from indemnity conditions.
  
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• MPs vote in favour of three-parent baby law - Catholic Herald Online

  03-02-2015 16:56
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  MPs vote in favour of three-parent baby law
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  MPs have today voted in favour of changes to the law that will see Britain become the first country in the world to permit the creation of IVF babies with DNA from three different people. After a debate in the House of Commons, MPs voted by in favour ...
  
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• MPs vote in favour of 'three-person embryo' law

  03-02-2015 16:50
  
  In historic debate Commons votes for controversial change to genetics law to allow mitochondrial transferMPs have voted in favour of making Britain the first country in the world to permit IVF babies to be created using biological material from three different people to help prevent serious genetic diseases.In a historic debate, the House of Commons voted by 382 to 128 – a majority of 254 – to allow mitochondrial donation through a controversial amendment to the 2008 Human Fertilisation and
  
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• High-handed Met police impose freedom of information ban on Press Gazette

  03-02-2015 16:26
  
  Scotland Yard accuses newspapers’ trade magazine of making ‘vexatious requests’Have the Metropolitan police taken leave of their senses? Britain’s biggest force has put a ban on Press Gazette using freedom of information requests to discover details about its use of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa). The Met has accused the newspapers’ trade magazine of making “vexatious requests... which are intended to be annoying or disruptive or which have a disproportionate impac
  
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• The specialist courts that care about keeping families together | Owen Bowcott

  03-02-2015 16:00
  
  Courts that support parents with drug and alcohol problems help prevent children going into care, but what is their future as budgets are cut?Peter Wandle’s son was removed at birth by social services. The family drug and alcohol court (FDAC) presented the new father with a stark choice: abandon his drug-taking and drinking or lose parental rights. Five years on, Wandle takes his young son to school every day.Such specialist courts – like those focusing on drug or domestic violence offences
  
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• The trouble with privatising probation | Rob Allen

  03-02-2015 15:53
  
  Probation chief Paul McDowell had to go after it was disclosed that his wife’s firm had won the largest number of service contracts. Lessons must be learnedWhen the chief inspector of probation Paul McDowell’s links with Sodexo became public last October, it was obvious he would have to resign sooner or later. The Guardian’s home affairs editor, Alan Travis, revealed that McDowell’s wife’s private justice company had won the largest number of contracts to run probation services in Engl
  
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• Paul McDowell’s fate shows the flaws in privatising probation | Rob Allen

  03-02-2015 15:53
  
  The chief inspector had to go after it was disclosed that his wife’s firm had won the largest number of contracts to run probation services. Lessons must be learnedWhen the chief inspector of probation Paul McDowell’s links with Sodexo became public last October, it was obvious he would have to resign sooner or later. The Guardian’s home affairs editor, Alan Travis, revealed that McDowell’s wife’s private justice company had won the largest number of contracts to run probation services
  
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• Rihanna and image rights

  03-02-2015 15:43 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The singer’s recent win over Topshop isn’t necessarily good news for claimants; each case will be taken on its merits.
  
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• Equalities minister urges change of culture in law firms

  03-02-2015 14:43 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Morgan: ‘Pay women as much as you like, but if they don’t feel comfortable in the working environment, we’ve only fixed half the problem.’
  
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• Strasbourg upholds right of British courts to impose whole-life terms

  03-02-2015 14:10 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  A life sentence with no hope of release does not amount to ’inhuman or degrading treatment’.
  
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• British courts can impose whole-life terms

  03-02-2015 14:10 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  A life sentence with no hope of release does not amount to ‘inhuman or degrading treatment’.
  
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• Abortion: Judicial challenge to current law granted - Belfast Telegraph

  03-02-2015 13:35
  
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  Abortion: Judicial challenge to current law granted
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  The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has won High Court permission to challenge abortion law in Northern Ireland. Related Articles. Abortion row as SDLP boss claims foetal tests for fatal conditions 'never accurate' new · Calculated move by 'in ...
  
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• UN court says Serbia and Croatia did not commit genocide during Balkans wars

  03-02-2015 12:18
  
  International court of justice says many crimes were committed by both countries but intent to commit genocide had not been provenThe UN’s highest court has ruled that neither Croatia nor Serbia committed genocide against each other’s populations during the Balkan wars that followed the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.Peter Tomka, president of the international court of justice, said many crimes had been committed by both countries’ forces during the conflict, but that the intent to c
  
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• UN court says Serbia and Croatia did not commit genocide during Balkan wars

  03-02-2015 12:18
  
  International court says crimes were committed by both countries but intent to commit genocide not provenThe UN’s highest court has ruled that neither Croatia nor Serbia committed genocide against each other’s populations during the Balkan wars that followed the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.Peter Tomka, president of the international court of justice, said crimes had been committed by both countries’ forces during the conflict, but that the intent to commit genocide – by “de
  
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• Litigation Partner is only Jersey lawyer named in UK Awards - Jersey Isle News

  03-02-2015 12:06
  Litigation Partner is only Jersey lawyer named in UK Awards
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  Bedell partner, Lisa Springate, was the only Jersey lawyer included among 24 individual award winners from firms across the country, including partners in many of the leading City law firms, in the Citywealth Power Women Awards 2015. Lisa was an award ...
  
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• European judges uphold British courts’ right to impose ‘whole life’ tariffs

  03-02-2015 11:48
  
  Ruling in case of triple-murderer Arthur Hutchinson says sentence does not amount to inhuman or degrading treatmentEuropean human rights judges have upheld the right of British courts to impose “whole life” prison sentences in the most heinous cases of murder.The ruling at the European court of human rights confirms that a power does clearly exist in British law that provides those spending the rest of their lives behind bars with the possibility of release in highly exceptional circumstance
  
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• UN court to rule on Serbia and Croatia genocide cases

  03-02-2015 11:37
  
  International court of justice ruling could stoke tensions in two countries, which filed complaints against each other following the breakup of YugoslaviaThe UN’s highest court is ruling on genocide cases filed by Serbia and Croatia over atrocities allegedly committed during the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.The countries filed complaints against each other at the international court of justice, which could award financial compensation if it finds either side violated the 1948 gen
  
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• UK 'revenge porn' law nets teen offender - Independent Online

  03-02-2015 11:14
  
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  UK 'revenge porn' law nets teen offender
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  London - A boy of 14 has become the youngest person in Britain to be convicted of “revenge porn” after he used Facebook to sell explicit photographs of his ex-girlfriend for £10. The teenager was able to use the social networking site to arrange to ...
  
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• Munby bemoans ‘serial failures’ over interpreting

  03-02-2015 11:02 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Sir James Munby orders Capita to pay £13k hearing costs after interpreter no-shows have ‘profound effect on proceedings’.
  
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• Head of UN war crimes inquiry resigns after Israel accuses him of pro-Gaza bias

  03-02-2015 00:14
  
  William Schabas quits to prevent consultancy work for Palestine Liberation Organisation overshadowing report on last summer’s military offensiveThe head of a UN inquiry into last summer’s Israeli military offensive in Gaza has said he will resign after Israeli allegations of bias due to consultancy work he did for the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).William Schabas, a Canadian academic, was appointed last August by the head of the UN Human Rights Council to lead a three-member group
  
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