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• UK IP Law Gets A Restyle - JD Supra (press release)

  20-02-2015 21:19
  
  UK IP Law Gets A Restyle
  JD Supra (press release)
  In the Northern Hemisphere's autumn of 2014, IP law hit the UK headlines, in light of the most significant series of reforms in years. Background to the reforms. In 2010, the government commissioned a review of the UK's IP framework, in order to ensure ...
  
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• Gay couple serving life sentences to marry in prison

  20-02-2015 18:28
  
  Convicted murderers Mikhail Gallatinov and Marc Goodwin are to get married at Full Sutton prison near York, but will not be able to share a cellA gay couple detained in of the UK’s toughest prisons are to marry after conducting a relationship in the jail library.
  Both men are serving life sentences for murder in Full Sutton prison near York, which houses some of the most dangerous offenders in the country.Prisoners ... are in prison for public safety reasons, not to stop them asserting their
  
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• Change in US law would make domestic search warrants global - PC Pro

  20-02-2015 17:33
  
  Change in US law would make domestic search warrants global
  PC Pro
  The US Department of Justice (DoJ) is seeking a change in the law that would give American law enforcement access to all internet connected devices, no matter where they are in the world. The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure is a little-known piece ...
  
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• Affirmative consent should be easy. Colleges and lawmakers need to try

  20-02-2015 17:15
  
  Prevailing polices that permit silence or nonresistance to be construed as consent contort the very concept of sexual assault beyond recognitionIn the rush to comply with recent federal law requiring comprehensive policies and procedures to address sexual violence on campuses, American colleges and universities, Congress and the Department of Education have overlooked one of the most critical issues in combating sexual assault: our medieval notions of what it means to consent to sex.While we’v
  
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• The only people who need to fear an affirmative consent standard for rape are rapists | Jay Sterling Silver

  20-02-2015 17:15
  
  Prevailing polices that permit silence or nonresistance to be construed as consent contort the very concept of sexual assault beyond recognitionIn the rush to comply with recent federal law requiring comprehensive policies and procedures to address sexual violence on campuses, American colleges and universities, Congress and the Department of Education have overlooked one of the most critical issues in combating sexual assault: our medieval notions of what it means to consent to sex.While we’v
  
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• Burma's human rights abuses highlight alarming corporate corruption

  20-02-2015 15:57
  
  Attempts at holding companies to account ineffectual as growing foreign investment in Myanmar exposes Burmese to ongoing human rights risksWhat are multinationals doing to champion rights of millions trapped in modern-day slavery?
  When Business & Human Rights Resource Centre wrote to over 100 foreign companies investing or operating in Myanmar last year to ask them to publicly disclose details about their activities and human rights commitments, the result was indicative of how the issue of
  
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• More bereaved families to get legal aid at inquests if state was involved in death

  20-02-2015 15:46
  
  High court ruling in case brought by Joanna Letts says official guidance on whether to provide legal aid has been “misleading and inaccurate”
  More bereaved families will be entitled to legal aid at inquests after a high court judge ruled that official guidance on whether to provide support was “misleading and inaccurate”.
  The ruling by Mr Justice Green enables relatives attending a coroner’s court to benefit from expert legal representation in cases where a state body is involved i
  
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• Big Fat Gypsy Wedding investigation handled correctly, high court rules

  20-02-2015 12:53
  
  Traveller Movement loses legal challenge that claimed Ofcom’s inquiry into complaints about Channel 4 series was procedurally unfairGypsy campaigners have lost their high court challenge over Ofcom’s handling of their complaint about Channel 4’s Big Fat Gypsy Wedding television programmes. Mr Justice Ouseley on Friday dismissed a judicial review brought against the media regulator by the Traveller Movement, a charity supporting 300,000 gypsies and travellers. Continue reading...
  
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• Legal aid challenge for inquests succeeds

  20-02-2015 12:43 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  High Court says current government guidance provides ‘materially misleading impression’ of the law. 
  
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• High Court allows judicial review on legal aid for inquests

  20-02-2015 12:43 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Current government guidance provides ‘materially misleading impression’ of the law. 
  
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• High Court allows JR on legal aid for inquests

  20-02-2015 12:43 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Current government guidance provides ‘materially misleading impression’ of the law. 
  
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• Challenge to legal aid for inquests succeeds

  20-02-2015 12:43 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  High Court says current government guidance provides ‘materially misleading impression’ of the law. 
  
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• Guildhall music teacher Philip Pickett jailed for raping female students

  20-02-2015 12:35
  
  Former freelance instructor at London school sentenced to 11 years for assaults between 1979 and 1983, while police believe he may have attacked more womenA former teacher at Britain’s leading classical music school has been jailed for 11 years for raping and attacking young female pupils, it can be reported.Philip Pickett was sentenced at the Old Bailey for raping two teenage girls and another two indecent assaults. The attacks took place between 1979 and 1983. Continue reading...
  
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• Guildhall school dismissed girl's claims 30 years before teacher Philip Pickett jailed

  20-02-2015 12:35
  
  School says it would now handle complaints differently, after musician is sentenced to 11 years for assaults between 1979 and 1983 in dark, soundproofed practice rooms Britain’s leading classical music school told the parents of a girl who complained that she had been attacked by her teacher that she should study elsewhere, 30 years before he was finally jailed for sexually assaulting her and other students.Philip Pickett, a former teacher at the Guildhall school of music and drama, was jailed
  
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• Guildhall school dismissed girl's claims 30 years before Philip Pickett jailed

  20-02-2015 12:35
  
  School says it would now handle complaints differently, after teacher is sentenced to 11 years for assaults on students in dark, soundproofed practice rooms Britain’s leading classical music school told the parents of a girl who complained that she had been attacked by her teacher that she should study elsewhere, 30 years before he was finally jailed for sexually assaulting her and other students.Philip Pickett, a former teacher at the Guildhall school of music and drama, was jailed for 11 yea
  
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• Revise domestic abuse legal aid rules, MoJ urged

  20-02-2015 12:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Citizens Advice says restrictions leading victims to ‘give up on their rights to justice’. 
  
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• What are multinationals doing to champion rights of millions trapped in modern-day slavery?

  20-02-2015 12:17
  
  With almost 21 million people working in forced labour conditions in the global economy, companies are being made to clean up their actIn a world of complex supply chains, migrant workers, sub-suppliers and a constant squeeze on costs, corporate leaders and their stakeholders are keenly aware of the risk of labour exploitation.
  And for good reason. No industry or region is fully insulated from the social deficit which has emerged from the rise of the modern global economy. The figures are asto
  
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• Motorists could recoup 'millions' on illegal parking fines

  20-02-2015 12:05
  
  If an appeal succeeds next week, out-of-proportion fines imposed by private parking companies will be repaidMotorists could be in line for payments of “tens of millions of pounds” for unfair parking fines of more than £100 a time, according to the RAC Foundation.
  John de Waal QC, a barrister, has prepared a report for the motoring organisation arguing that private parking companies are levying huge charges on drivers out of all proportion to the losses suffered by landowners.[Ministe
  
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• Connected and protected: balancing children’s online freedom and safety

  20-02-2015 11:53
  
  Online freedom brings internet dangers. With regulation limited and hard to enforce, education could be the key to keeping our children safeLast year, 14-year-old Breck Bednar was murdered by 19-year-old Lewis Daynes whom he met via an online games forum. His mother has advised parents and guardians to monitor the online activity of their children. This unfortunate case highlights the dangers to children in the digital world, which cause serious concern to parents, teachers and regulators as wel
  
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• BSB wants to surrender powers on pupillages

  20-02-2015 10:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Chambers and employers best placed to design the pupillage experience, says Bar Standards Board. 
  
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• We’ll all die one day. Isn’t it time we got used to the idea? | Tim Lott

  20-02-2015 08:00
  
  Instead of trying to outwit mortal disease, we should be learning to face our fate with courageI’m writing this after hearing an apparently innocuous and encouraging snippet of news – that a new lung cancer treatment is capable of giving sufferers a possible “extra 200 days” of life. Another morning, another “battle against cancer” fought, and in this case won – sort of.Yet I find myself rather in sympathy with the one in five Dutch doctors who, it was reported this
  
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• NY lawyer: Argentina not responding to negotiation requests - Yahoo News UK

  20-02-2015 00:38
  
  NY lawyer: Argentina not responding to negotiation requests
  Yahoo News UK
  NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer appointed to lead negotiations between U.S. bondholders and Argentina over unpaid debts says the South American nation is not responding to requests to negotiate. Special Master Daniel A. Pollack says Thursday that ...
  
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