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• Clegg urges May to pass law protecting journalist sources before poll

  10-02-2015 23:00
  
  Deputy prime minister calls for legislation to be passed before election ensuring judicial warrant is needed to access reporters’ phone and email data
  Nick Clegg is urging the government to quickly pass a law to protect journalists’ sources from police surveillance amid signs that the Home Office is dragging its feet on the commitment.
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• The Guardian view on the right to march: protest must be beyond price | Editorial

  10-02-2015 20:52
  
  Police efforts to charge protest groups before they can demonstrate are an affront to freedom and civil liberty. They should be disowned and abandonedAsk almost anyone in this country to name some of their basic civil liberties and it won’t be too long before somebody mentions the right to protest. They are right to do so. The right of assembly in a public place is truly one of the cornerstones of liberty – a right to bear witness and bring peaceful pressure to bear on rulers and the public
  
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• Lawyer says Bieber is making progress on probation terms - Yahoo News UK

  10-02-2015 19:31
  
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  Lawyer says Bieber is making progress on probation terms
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  LOS ANGELES (AP) — An ankle injury has tripped up Justin Bieber's attempts to complete the terms of his sentence in a vandalism case filed after he threw eggs at his neighbor's house last year. Probation officials wrote in a report filed Tuesday that ...
  
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• Missouri death row inmate submits last-minute appeal over execution drugs

  10-02-2015 19:05
  
  Appeal filed on behalf of Walter Timothy Storey argues lethal drugs used by state could cause unconstitutional pain and suffering​A Missouri inmate just hours away from execution is asking the US supreme court to step in, arguing that lethal drug could cause unconstitutional pain and suffering.The appeal was filed on Tuesday on behalf of Walter Timothy Storey. He is scheduled for lethal injection at 12.01am on Wednesday for killing a female neighbor in 1990. Related: Oklahoma considers gas cha
  
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• Dawkins among atheists urging Irish PM to hold blasphemy law referendum

  10-02-2015 18:32
  
  Letter from coalition of Irish atheists and supporters including scientist Richard Dawkins criticises Enda Kenny for reneging on promise of referendum on six-year-old blasphemy law
  An international group of atheists and secularists including the scientists Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker has challenged the Irish prime minister, Enda Kenny, to hold a referendum to repeal Ireland’s 21st century blasphemy law.Ahead of an historic first meeting between a taoiseach and Irish atheists in Dublin on
  
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• Atheist Ireland's open letter to Enda Kenny

  10-02-2015 18:30
  
  Signatories urge taoiseach to honour pledge to hold referendum, noting that Pakistan has proposed adopting Irish blasphemy law as part of efforts to limit freedom of conscience
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• UK prisons won’t let journalists in – what do they have to hide? | Amelia Gentleman

  10-02-2015 17:55
  
  I found it easier to visit a military prison in Vladimir Putin’s Russia than to gain access to a British jailWhen officials block a visit by a journalist, you do wonder what it is they don’t want you to see. Over the past couple of years I have found it impossible to get reporting access to two important British institutions – supermarket abattoirs and adult prisons.Shortly after the horse meat scandal, I was asked by an editor to write a detailed piece about how modern abattoirs work, and
  
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• Oklahoma considers gas chambers to execute death row inmates

  10-02-2015 17:10
  
  Republican lawmakers searching for alternative to lethal injection – on hold after botched procedure in April – suggest execution via nitrogen hypoxiaRepublican lawmakers in Oklahoma are considering two separate bills that would allow the state’s department of corrections to use gas chambers as an alternative to lethal injection for execution, as dwindling stocks of drugs and scandals over botched procedures fuel a search for alternatives.Mike Christian, the Oklahoma representative who pro
  
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• 'Illegal under EU law:' UK judge refers Rosneft's sanctions lawsuit to ... - RT

  10-02-2015 14:58
  
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  A lawsuit brought by Russian oil firm Rosneft challenging sanctions imposed on Moscow has been referred to the European Court of Justice. Rosneft's lawyers maintain the sanctions were hastily implemented and are illegal under EU law. The company had ...
  
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• How undocumented immigrants who can't vote can change the 2016 elections | Gustavo Arellano

  10-02-2015 13:30
  
  People who were brought into the US as children and grew up American can’t make their voices heard at the ballot boxes. But they won’t stay silentThe question of the so-called DREAMers – the millions of people who were brought into the United States as children and grew up undocumented even as they became as thoroughly Americanized as the nachos at a baseball game – will present politicians in the 2016 presidential elections with a starkly simple proposal: you’re either with them, or a
  
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• Want a London hearing? Prove it is needed, litigants told

  10-02-2015 12:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Civil Procedure Rule Committee amends regulations to require reasons for cases to be diverted from local courts. 
  
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• Intervention papers may be destroyed, court rules

  10-02-2015 11:31 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  High Court decision clears way for immediate destruction of 1.5 million seized files. 
  
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• UK prisoners banned from voting not entitled to compensation, court rules

  10-02-2015 10:37
  
  European court of human rights rules that voting ban breached rights of 1,015 UK prisoners but declines to order compensationPrisoners and former inmates who have been prevented from voting are not entitled to compensation, the European court of human rights has ruled.Despite finding yet again that the UK continues to violate prisoners’ rights to participate in elections, the Strasbourg court declined to order that any of 1,015 claimants be awarded payment in redress or to cover legal costs. C
  
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• UK prisoners banned from voting not entitled to compensation

  10-02-2015 10:37
  
  European court of human rights rules ban breached rights of 1,015 Britons behind bars but declines to order any monetary damages
  Prisoners and former inmates who have been prevented from voting are not entitled to compensation, the European court of human rights (ECHR) has ruled.Despite finding yet again that the UK continues to violate prisoners’ rights to participate in elections, the Strasbourg court declined to order that any of 1,015 claimants be awarded payment in redress or to cover leg
  
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• UK prisoner voting ban breached human rights, European court rules

  10-02-2015 10:17
  
  Rights of 1,015 UK prisoners were breached when they were prevented from
  voting in elections, European court of human rights rulesThe rights of more than 1,000 UK prisoners were breached when they were prevented from voting in elections, European judges have said. But the European court of human rights (ECHR) rejected the applicants’ claims for compensation and legal costs. Continue reading...
  
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• Slater & Gordon reveals double UK acquisition

  10-02-2015 08:32 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Deals announced as part of half-year results announced to Australian stock market.
  
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• Slater and Gordon reveals double UK acquisition

  10-02-2015 08:32 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Deals announced with half-year results released to Australian stock exchange.
  
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