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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg: I would overturn supreme court's Citizens United ruling

  04-02-2015 23:57
  
  US supreme court justice speaks to Georgetown Law class and says 2010 decision on campaign finance would be the one case she’d pick to undoIf Ruth Bader Ginsburg could overturn any of the decisions made by America’s highest court in the past 10 years, it would be the sweeping 2010 decision that expanded corporate personhood.While answering questions at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, the supreme court justice said that if she had to pick one case to undo, it would be the Citi
  
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• Police corruption law 'not needed' - Belfast Telegraph

  04-02-2015 22:21
  
  Belfast Telegraph
  Police corruption law 'not needed'
  Belfast Telegraph
  A new law to combat potential police corruption in Northern Ireland is not required, the Attorney General has told MLAs. Also in this Section. Army experts probe pipe bomb find · Boston College tapes: Alleged offences of former loyalist prisoner of ...
  
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• Decision to prosecute doctor for FGM ‘left me with no faith in British justice’

  04-02-2015 20:48
  
  Dr Katrina Erskine attacks Crown Prosecution Service after jury clears Dr Dhanuson Dharmasena of subjecting mother to female genital mutilationA hospital consultant sharply attacked the director of public prosecutions for bowing to pressure in mounting the first prosecution for female genital mutilation in the UK against a hospital doctor.Speaking hours after a jury took less than 30 minutes to find Dr Dhanuson Dharmasena, 32, not guilty of subjecting a mother to FGM after he delivered her baby,
  
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• UK lawmakers approve three-parent IVF law - JURIST

  04-02-2015 20:44
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  UK lawmakers approve three-parent IVF law
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  [JURIST] UK lawmakers on Tuesday voted in favor of a law that would make the UK the first country to allow an in vitro fertilization (IVF) technique that uses DNA from two women and one man. In the House of Commons [official website], members of ...
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• What is sex? HIV case forces Florida supreme court to define intercourse

  04-02-2015 20:38
  
  State law requires people living with HIV to tell sexual partners of their infection but a lower court found that only covers certain acts between men and womenThe Florida supreme court heard arguments on Wednesday over the definition of sexual intercourse as it weighs a challenge to a state law that requires people living with HIV to inform partners of their infection.The case stems from charges filed in 2011 against Gary Debaun, who was accused of not informing his male partner of his HIV stat
  
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• Europe rights court: UK whole-life sentences conform with international law - JURIST

  04-02-2015 19:12
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  Europe rights court: UK whole-life sentences conform with international law
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  [JURIST] The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] ruled [judgment] Tuesday that the methodology used by British courts to determine whether to mitigate whole-life sentences does not violate Article 3 [text] of the European ...
  
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• First FGM prosecution: how the case came to court

  04-02-2015 17:45
  
  Accusation against Dr Dhanuson Dharmasena came at a time of growing pressure over failure to bring single FGM prosecutionThe maternity unit at the Whittington hospital in north London was busy when a young woman arrived to give birth on a Saturday morning in November 2012. Related: Doctor found not guilty of FGM on patient at London hospital The CPS had this case for a very long time and I do think they were responding to a lot of public pressure Continue reading...
  
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• Police will need judge’s permission to access journalists’ phone and email records

  04-02-2015 16:09
  
  David Cameron accepts recommendation for judicial oversight of police use of anti-terror powers to snoop on reportersPolice will be forced to seek the permission of a judge if they want to retrieve the phone and email records of journalists, after the prime minister’s snooping watchdog found that 19 police forces made more than 600 applications to uncover confidential sources in the past three years.The requests to use anti-terror legislation to access journalists’ communication records were
  
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• Police make 600 applications to trace journalists’ sources, watchdog finds

  04-02-2015 16:09
  
  Demands for journalists’ telephone and email records were made in 34 inquiries into suspected leaks by public officials, report saysNineteen police forces have made more than 600 applications to uncover journalists’ confidential sources using anti-terror legislation, according to an inquiry by the prime minister’s snooping watchdog.The demands for telephone and email records of journalists were made in 34 police investigations into suspected leaks by public officials, the Interception of C
  
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• Mishcon defeats breach of duty claims

  04-02-2015 15:22 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  High Court exonerates City firm over money transferred on instructions of client.
  
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• BSB explores alternatives to advocacy quality scheme

  04-02-2015 15:15 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulator looks at other advocacy checks while uncertainty surrounds controversial QASA.
  
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• Lowell Goddard profile: New Zealand judge to chair UK child abuse inquiry

  04-02-2015 14:47
  
  The 66-year-old high court judge has experience working with sexual assault victims and served has on United Nations committeesJustice Lowell Goddard, the newly appointed chair of the inquiry in child sexual abuse, is a New Zealand high court judge who has served on United Nations committees.The first woman from a Maori background to sit on her country’s high court, Goddard, 66, has experience working with victims of sexual assaults; as a barrister she helped establish a support programmes for
  
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• Lowell Goddard profile: new chair ‘has key qualities’ to lead child abuse inquiry

  04-02-2015 14:47
  
  New Zealand high court judge has experience working with sexual assault victims and has served on UN committeesJustice Lowell Goddard, the newly appointed chair of the inquiry into child sexual abuse, is a New Zealand high court judge who has served on United Nations committees.The first woman from a Maori background to sit in her country’s high court, Goddard, 66, has experience working with victims of sexual assault; as a barrister she helped establish support programmes for survivors of abu
  
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• Lowell Goddard profile: judge ‘has key qualities’ to lead child abuse inquiry

  04-02-2015 14:47
  
  New Zealand high court judge has experience working with sexual assault victims and has served on UN committeesJustice Lowell Goddard, the newly appointed chair of the inquiry into child sexual abuse, is a New Zealand high court judge who has served on United Nations committees.The first woman from a Maori background to sit in her country’s high court, Goddard, 66, has experience working with victims of sexual assault; as a barrister she helped establish support programmes for survivors of abu
  
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• Obama still argues that we can't have transparency or the terrorists will win

  04-02-2015 14:09
  
  From the torture report to videos from Guantánamo to pictures from Abu Ghraib, the government says we can’t see because bad men might use it against usThe Obama administration, self-described Most Transparent Administration in History™, is currently engaged in a multi-pronged legal battle to prevent an iota more transparency related to illegal torture. If there was any lingering hopes that the President might use the last two years of his final term in office to bring some accountability to
  
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• Judge authorises sterilisation of mother-of-six with learning disabilities

  04-02-2015 13:39
  
  Health authority and social services bosses argue procedure is in best interests of woman, whose life could be in danger if she becomes pregnant againA mother-of-six with learning disabilities can be sterilised, a judge has ruled.Health authority and social services bosses had asked Mr Justice Cobb to authorise forced entry into the woman’s home, the use of “necessary restraint” and sterilisation, at a hearing in the court of protection – where issues relating to sick and vulnerable peop
  
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• Sir Keir Starmer: police stations are intimidating for rape victims

  04-02-2015 12:58
  
  Former director of public prosecutions calls for overhaul of system for reporting sex crimes and UK’s adversarial court process
  Police stations are not the ideal place for victims to report crimes – particularly rape and sexual offences – according to the former director of public prosecutions, Sir Keir Starmer.Relying on less formal and intimidating locations, even encouraging people to talk to colleagues at work, may help boost the numbers of those prepared to come forward and report w
  
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• Republicans hope latest anti-Obamacare bill will be first to reach president's desk

  04-02-2015 12:20
  
  Decision to hold another seemingly meaningless vote comes ahead of more serious threat to the Act – the supreme court’s hearing of King v Burwell caseRepublican lawmakers added to their collection of nearly 60 anti-Obamacare bills that have passed the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
  But this one could have at least a slightly different fate than those that have come before it: it could be the first to reach Barack Obama’s desk – and his veto pen. Continue reading...
  
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• The UK's Largest Dispersed Law Firm, Keystone Law, Selects NetDocuments to ... - IT Business Net

  04-02-2015 11:48
  The UK's Largest Dispersed Law Firm, Keystone Law, Selects NetDocuments to ...
  IT Business Net
  LONDON, Feb. 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Keystone Law, a fast-growing dispersed law firm, has selected NetDocuments for cloud-based document and email management. As the firm searched for a solution to match their next generation approach to the ...
  
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• Bobbi Kristina never married, says family lawyer - Yahoo News UK

  04-02-2015 11:19
  
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  Bobbi Kristina never married, says family lawyer
  Yahoo News UK
  SNAP.PA - Kevin Costner has said Bobbi Kristina Brown's family are under an “enormous amount of stress”. Kevin Costner has spoken of his sadness about Bobbi Kristina Brown's condition – as a family lawyer denied that she'd ever been married to partner ...
  
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• Three-parent baby law makes human life disposable, says bishop - Catholic Herald Online

  04-02-2015 11:03
  Catholic Herald Online
  Three-parent baby law makes human life disposable, says bishop
  Catholic Herald Online
  The Bishops' Conference of England and Wales has condemned the House of Commons decision to vote in favour of legalising three-parent children. Auxiliary Bishop John Sherrington of Westminster issued a statement on behalf of the bishops, stating that ...
  
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• British court to rule on death sentences for two Trinidad murderers

  04-02-2015 10:37
  
  Test case will raise question of whether court in London has authority to vary hanging order imposed by judges in CaribbeanSeven British judges will consider whether two convicted murderers from Trinidad should have their death penalty sentences lifted by the privy council.The test case, starting on Wednesday, will raise the question of whether a court in London has legal authority to vary a hanging order imposed by judges in the Caribbean.
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• UK Lawmakers Approve Law to Allow '3-Parent Babies' Using In Vitro Fertilization - KTLA

  04-02-2015 08:51
  
  The Independent
  UK Lawmakers Approve Law to Allow '3-Parent Babies' Using In Vitro Fertilization
  KTLA
  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 mitochondrial ...
  Britain is the first country to legalise 'three parent' IVF techniquesThe Independent
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• Britain is the first country to legalise 'three parent' IVF techniques - The Independent

  04-02-2015 08:46
  
  The Independent
  Britain is the first country to legalise 'three parent' IVF techniques
  The Independent
  In a milestone for medical science, Britain is to become the first country in the world to allow the creation of so-called “three-parent” babies as MPs today voted overwhelmingly in favour of the controversial technique of mitochondrial donation. After ...
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• Theresa May’s Prevent bill is extremism in the name of security | Karma Nabulsi

  04-02-2015 07:30
  
  The home secretary’s counter-terrorism and security bill is a Hobbesian contract meant to frighten us into surrendering our freedomsWith Theresa May’s counter-terrorism and security bill at its final stages in the House of Lords, the major question before us all now is: how did something more dangerous than 1950s McCarthyism in its anti-democratic provisions get through the gates?It entered the bloodstream of the body politic because we were told these measures were not about us: they were a
  
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• The UK's Largest Dispersed Law Firm, Keystone Law, Selects NetDocuments to ... - PR Newswire (press release)

  04-02-2015 07:00
  
  The UK's Largest Dispersed Law Firm, Keystone Law, Selects NetDocuments to ...
  PR Newswire (press release)
  LONDON, Feb. 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Keystone Law, a fast-growing dispersed law firm, has selected NetDocuments for cloud-based document and email management. As the firm searched for a solution to match their next generation approach to the ...
  
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• Government still playing ‘catch up’ on LASPO

  04-02-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  PAC chair Margaret Hodge says it is ‘deeply disturbing’ that reforms were not based on evidence.
  
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