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• Jeb Bush backs brother's NSA surveillance program to keep America safe

  18-02-2015 21:01
  
  Presidential contender says of NSA dragnet ‘this is a hugely important program’, in sharp contrast to Republican rivals for the White HouseFormer Florida governor Jeb Bush delivered a full-throated defense of government surveillance programs on Wednesday, expressing a resounding faith in techniques pioneered by his brother, George W Bush, and staking out a position in sharp contrast with other prospective 2016 presidential candidates.Dragnet metadata collection by the National Security Agenc
  
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• Gendercide abortion law is 'a risk to mothers' - The Independent

  18-02-2015 20:46
  
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  Gendercide abortion law is 'a risk to mothers'
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  Women's rights campaigners are calling on MPs to vote against criminalising abortion on grounds of a child's gender because it could drive the problem underground. The Iranian & Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation yesterday said an amendment to the ...
  
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• Charities warn 'gagging law' stops them campaigning on election issues - The Independent

  18-02-2015 20:10
  
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  Charities warn 'gagging law' stops them campaigning on election issues
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  Charities have warned they are being deterred from staging major campaigns on crucial general election issues because of the “chilling” impact of controversial new rules on lobbying. In a letter to political leaders seen by The Independent, Britain's ...
  
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• The judge was right to reunite a child with his EDL-supporting father

  18-02-2015 17:14
  
  Social engineering is not the job of Sir James Munby, still less the borough council that argued it was ‘immoral’ to allow the young father to bring up his sonBut the boy’s parents object. The father, now in his mid-20s, wants to bring up his son with the support of his own mother and stepfather. The child’s mother supports his application, although she does not put herself forward as a carer. By the time the council makes its application to the court, she is out of prison — though no
  
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• Bad lieutenant: American police brutality, exported from Chicago to Guantánamo

  18-02-2015 17:03
  
  Exclusive: At the notorious wartime prison, Richard Zuley oversaw a shocking military interrogation that has become a permanent stain on his country. Part one of a Guardian investigation reveals he used disturbingly similar tactics to extract confessions from minorities for years – as a police officer in urban AmericaWhen the Chicago detective Richard Zuley arrived at Guantánamo Bay late in 2002, US military commanders touted him as the hero they had been looking for.
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• Guantánamo torturer led brutal Chicago police regime of shackling and confession

  18-02-2015 17:01
  
  Exclusive: Richard Zuley’s tactics exported from Chicago to Guantánamo BayMinority Americans allege catalogue of abuse and coercion similar to detaineeOfficials examining complaints after innocent man spent half his life in prisonA Chicago detective who led one of the most shocking acts of torture ever conducted at Guantánamo Bay was responsible for implementing a disturbingly similar, years-long regime of brutality to elicit murder confessions from minority Americans.
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• French court stays extradition of Argentinian accused in 'dirty war' case

  18-02-2015 16:47
  
  Mario Sandoval, a ex-police officer accused of crimes against humanity four decades ago, faces charges of 600 human rights violations in ArgentinaFrance’s highest court has struck down a decision to pursue extradition to Argentina for an ex-police officer accused of crimes against humanity four decades ago during that country’s “dirty war”, ruling the case should be re-examined. Mario Sandoval, who moved to France after the fall of Argentina’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship and obtain
  
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• Strauss-Kahn lawyer says pimping case has 'collapsed' - Yahoo News UK

  18-02-2015 15:44
  
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  Strauss-Kahn lawyer says pimping case has 'collapsed'
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  The pimping case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn has "collapsed", a lawyer for the former IMF chief said Wednesday, summing up a trial which has exposed the most intimate details of his client's sex life. The 65-year-old Strauss-Kahn, once seen as a ...
  
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• High court upholds plan to slash on-call legal aid solicitors

  18-02-2015 14:49
  
  Solicitors vow to resume legal battle after judges back ‘proportionate’ proposals to slash contracts from 1,600 to 527Solicitors have failed to prevent the Ministry of Justice from imposing deep cuts in the number of contracts for lawyers attending magistrates courts and police stations in England and Wales.The high court has upheld as “proportionate” proposals by the justice secretary, Chris Grayling, to reduce the contracts from 1,600 to 527. Continue reading...
  
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• White House considers swift challenge to judge's immigration ruling

  18-02-2015 13:27
  
  Judge issued temporary halt to Obama’s executive action for undocumented migrants but critics fear prolonged legal uncertainty may deter future applicantsThe Obama administration is considering trying to swiftly overturn a court restriction against its immigration reforms amid fears that a prolonged legal threat would deter future applicants and give Republicans a window to rally political opposition.The decision on Monday night by Texas district judge Andrew Hanen to freeze the president’s
  
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• Helicopters, UK Cape Town Ratification And English Insolvency Law - Best ... - Mondaq News Alerts (registration)

  18-02-2015 11:41
  Helicopters, UK Cape Town Ratification And English Insolvency Law - Best ...
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  The UK is to ratify the Cape Town Convention and its Aircraft Protocol (together, Cape Town). This may help UK aircraft operators access cheaper capital markets funding. But that cheaper funding may require the UK, in effect, to adopt Cape Town's ...
  
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• Blow to legal aid as High Court dismisses judicial review

  18-02-2015 11:11 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society and practitioner groups brought challenges over crime duty tender process.
  
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• Blow to legal aid as High Court dismisses JR

  18-02-2015 11:11 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society and practitioner groups brought challenges over crime duty tender process.
  
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• Most UK businesses support strike law reform - HRmagazine.co.uk

  18-02-2015 11:03
  Most UK businesses support strike law reform
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  The majority of UK businesses support reform to strike law, law firm Eversheds has found. Eversheds surveyed 400 UK businesses about the main political parties' HR-related policy commitments. The results have been seen exclusively by HR magazine.
  
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• Pioneering family court to go national

  18-02-2015 10:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Department for Education providing £2.5m to extend drug and alcohol court across England.
  
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• SRA apologises for trainee 'confusion'

  18-02-2015 09:12 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulator had released figures suggesting a sharp increase in the number of trainee solicitors.
  
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• How Google determined our right to be forgotten

  18-02-2015 08:30
  
  Google has acted as judge, jury and executioner in the wake of Europe’s right to be forgotten ruling. But what does society lose when a private corporation rules public information?
  Mario Costeja González spent five years fighting to have 18 words delisted from Google search results on his name. Related: Right to be forgotten poses more questions than answers Continue reading...
  
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• Chief prison inspector calls for review of super-jails

  18-02-2015 01:01
  
  Nick Hardwick urges government to investigate mistakes at opening of G4S-run Oakwood before building more supersized prisonsThe chief inspector of prisons has called for a full review of the lessons learned from the opening of the troubled G4S-run Oakwood prison before any more “supersized” jails are opened.The privately run 1,500-capacity prison near Wolverhampton was famously castigated within 15 months of its opening in April 2012 as a jail where it was “easier to get hold of illicit dr
  
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• One in five Dutch doctors would help physically healthy patients die

  18-02-2015 00:31
  
  18% of medical professionals quizzed admitted they would consider helping someone die if they had grown ‘tired of living’Almost one in five Dutch doctors would consider helping someone die even if they had no physical problems but were “tired of living”, according to one of the most comprehensive academic studies of such attitudes.The research, in which almost 1,500 GPs, geriatric care doctors and clinical specialists answered a detailed, anonymous survey, also found that 2% of them said
  
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