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• Bobby Brown Daughter: Lawyer Releases Statement Slamming TMZ and Daily ... - Latin Post

  11-02-2015 21:05
  
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  Bobby Brown Daughter: Lawyer Releases Statement Slamming TMZ and Daily ...
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  On Tuesday, Feb. 10, Bobby Brown's lawyer, Christopher Brown released a public statement slamming media outlets such as TMZ, the National Enquirer, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, and the Daily Mail UK for publishing false reports claiming that his ...
  
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• The Guardian view on whistleblowers: heroes working in the public interest | Editorial

  11-02-2015 20:52
  
  As long as they’re working for us all, they deserve the protection of the lawThe world needs its whistleblowers. They are indispensable to a healthy society. The employee who, in the public interest, has the independence of judgment and the personal courage to challenge malpractice or illegality is a kind of public hero. Yet, as Sir Richard Francis reported on Wednesday , in the NHS as in any large and bureaucratic organisation, whistleblowers are far more likely to be resented than respected,
  
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• Children taken to UK should be returned to Australia, judge rules

  11-02-2015 20:12
  
  Man’s former wife, now dead, had specified in will that she did not want her two children to return to live with their father
  An English woman who did not want her two children to live with her ex-husband in Australia has lost a fight from beyond the grave.
  The woman had written a will and said “under no circumstances” did she wish the youngsters – a girl aged eight and a boy aged seven – to return to their Australian father. Her parents and her ex-husband, who is of Aboriginal desce
  
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• Justice Goddard assures committee she has no establishment links

  11-02-2015 18:18
  
  New head of child abuse inquiry says it will be up and running by April and have a ‘truth and reconciliation’ element
  The New Zealand high court judge who is to chair the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse has said she has no links to the establishment, telling MPs: “We don’t have such a thing in my country.” Continue reading...
  
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• Finally dealing with campus rape means that some men will have it tougher | Jessica Valenti

  11-02-2015 17:15
  
  After decades of not helping victims of campus rape, things are starting to change and men are starting to be punished. That’s a good thingThe epidemic levels of rape on university campuses has a lot of people really worried. Unfortunately, they’re worried that campuses are going “too far” in their effort to punish rapists; that young men will be wrongly accused; that campus sex policies will criminalize consensual sex; that the rape epidemic is more ideological rhetoric than actual live
  
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• UK redactions to CIA torture report were made for national security, MPs rule

  11-02-2015 16:51
  
  Inquiry concludes redactions to report were not made to cover up UK role in mistreatment of detaineesAllegations that UK intelligence agencies ordered redactions to a US report on CIA torture in order to cover up its role in the mistreatment of detainees are unfounded, MPs have ruled.An investigation by the British parliament’s intelligence and security committee (ISC) has concluded that redactions to documents in December’s report into CIA torture were all made on the grounds of national se
  
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• Ripa drafters did not consider its use to access journalists' data

  11-02-2015 16:25
  
  Two former GCHQ chiefs reveal privacy was of more concern than press freedom It transpires that when the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) was being drafted no-one realised it could be used to access journalists’ communications and thus compromise their confidential sources.One of those who helped to draft the act, Michael Drury, who was GCHQ’s director of legal affairs between 1996 and 2010, said journalism was barely considered. Continue reading...
  
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• NHS whistleblowing inquiry accuses lawyers of ‘cover-ups’

  11-02-2015 15:25 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Report calls for an extension to legal protection for workers coming forward with disclosure.
  
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• UK judges disillusioned after drop in pay and conditions, survey finds - The Guardian

  11-02-2015 15:10
  
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  UK judges disillusioned after drop in pay and conditions, survey finds
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  Judges have experienced a sharp deterioration in working conditions, pay and pensions, according to the first survey of salaried judges across the UK. Carried out at the suggestion of the senior salaries review body (SSRB), the findings show almost ...
  
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• UK judges disillusioned after drop in pay and conditions, survey finds

  11-02-2015 15:09
  
  First survey of salaried judges finds two-thirds feel less respected by society than they were 10 years agoJudges have experienced a sharp deterioration in working conditions, pay and pensions, according to the first survey of salaried judges across the United Kingdom.Carried out at the suggestion of the senior salaries review body (SSRB), the findings show almost two-thirds of those on the bench feel less respected by society than they were 10 years ago and many say they are at breaking point.
  
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• 'American Sniper' murder trial opens for marine accused in Chris Kyle death

  11-02-2015 15:06
  
  National spotlight beams down on small Texas town captivated by case in which defense will seek to prove Eddie Ray Routh was insane when he shot KyleA Texas rodeo store has temporarily run out of baseball caps honoring Chris Kyle, the Navy Seal depicted in the movie American Sniper. A roadside sign outside Grumps Burgers next door proclaims support for the families of Kyle and friend Chad Littlefield, who were killed two years ago at a gun range.With opening statements set to begin on Wednesday
  
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• DWP raises mesothelioma payments to 100%

  11-02-2015 13:52 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Government also agrees new threshold for securing claims with insurance industry.
  
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• Bury St Edmunds to take London divorces

  11-02-2015 12:49
  
  HM Courts & Tribunals Service has begun process of centralising divorce applications.
  
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• Journalists must be able to protect their sources | Julian Huppert

  11-02-2015 12:23
  
  My amendment to the serious crime bill would provide safety for the whistleblowers who are vital to democracyFor a journalist, protecting sources is essential. Many have even gone to prison to defend these relationships, knowing quite rightly that whistleblowers will not talk to them if they know their details can just be handed over.But, shockingly, it seems the police have been engaging in wide-scale targeting of journalists. They obtained the phone records of Sun political editor Tom Newton D
  
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• Prison is no place for healthy sexual development | Ally Fogg

  11-02-2015 11:53
  
  The commission on sex in prisons reveals that for young people, incarceration means sexual abuse and a future of further offendingTraversing the emotional and physical minefields of adolescent sexuality is a challenge for every young person. For one group of youngsters in particular, it can be little short of a nightmare. This week, the commission on sex in prisons, an ongoing research project convened by the Howard League, has turned its attention to the experiences of child prisoners. Its brie
  
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• Legal aid savings ‘no economy at all’ – CoA judge

  11-02-2015 11:51 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Judges lament time and expense taken to help litigant in person through court procedures.
  
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• ‘People overstate the extent to which the law must change for new technology'

  11-02-2015 11:00
  
  Ahead of an appearance at this year’s Changing Media Summit, John Enser talks to the Guardian about the gap between the law and new technology, consumers’ attitudes towards data and the future of content delivery
  
  • Changing Media Summit 2015 programmeCan you tell us a little about your role at Olswang?
  I am a solicitor specialising in providing legal advice on commercial transactions and copyright issues relating to all forms of digital media, particularly those offering music and a
  
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• ‘We closed workhouses, let’s get rid of child prisons’

  11-02-2015 08:00
  
  Children’s rights campaigner Carolyne Willow was sent away aged four. That experience spurs her fight to protect minors from custody and incarcerationChildren’s rights campaigner Carolyne Willow, 48, can trace the roots of her affiliation to children who, in one way or another, have fallen foul of the law to her own dispatch to a sanatorium in Northumberland, in the early 1970s, when she was four and again, aged five.“It was an experience of being defeated as a child. I desperately did not
  
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