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• Protesters accuse government of 'hijacking' Magna Carta anniversary

  23-02-2015 21:50
  
  As Chris Grayling opens Global Law summit, human rights activists and lawyers gather with effigy of justice secretary to protest about legal aid cuts
  
  A crowned effigy of the justice secretary, Chris Grayling, as King John clamped in the stocks was carried past parliament today as the government-backed Global Law summit celebrated the approaching 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.The collision of protests about cuts to legal aid and foreign dignitaries eager to learn from England’s judicial h
  
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• US supreme court divided over spousal right to appeal denial of visa

  23-02-2015 20:12
  
  Woman whose Afghan husband was barred over working for government during Taliban rule says ‘You wouldn’t run from someone then invite them into your life’The supreme court appeared divided on Monday as it considered whether US citizens have the right to object if the government denies their spouse a visa in a case involving a California woman whose Afghan husband was barred from the United States.Some of the nine justices appeared sympathetic to Fauzia Din, a naturalized American citizen f
  
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• Providing condoms in English prisons is official policy | Letters

  23-02-2015 20:11
  
  Your article on the planned same-sex marriage in Full Sutton prison (21 February) quotes a source as saying that providing condoms to prisoners who need them “is not official policy”.  Providing condoms to prisoners who need them is prison policy in England (the Health and Justice Indicators of Performance Guidance 2014 states that prisoners should be able to access condoms).  It is a fact that sex takes place in prison, and preventing the spread of HIV and other sexually tran
  
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• Summit: rights should apply online as well as off - EU justice chief

  23-02-2015 19:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  New legislation should give consumers ‘more control and more choice’ EU justice commissioner tells Global Law Summit.
  
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• Barrister disbarred for practising without valid PC

  23-02-2015 18:28 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Jonathan Oultram practised as a barrister from March 2013 to January 2014 despite not being properly authorised to do so.
  
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• Auschwitz suspect charged in Germany on 3,681 counts

  23-02-2015 17:29
  
  Former SS sergeant charged with 3,681 counts of accessory to murder in Nazi extermination camp German prosecutors have charged a 94-year-old man with 3,681 counts of accessory to murder over allegations he served in the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp.Stefan Urbanek, a spokesman for prosecutors in Schwerin, the capital of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, said on Monday that the suspect was an SS sergeant who served as a medic in an SS hospital in Auschwitz. In that role, Urbanek said the man helped
  
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• Divorce laws ‘woefully outdated’

  23-02-2015 17:07 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Resolution recommends end to fault-based divorce.
  
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• Why is Britain refusing to compensate victims of miscarriage of justice? | Duncan Campbell

  23-02-2015 15:56
  
  Changes to compensation rules put the judicial system’s fairness and integrity at risk
  Welcoming guests to the Global Law Summit in London this week, the prime minister reassured the 2,000 delegates that “Britain continues to lead the way in promoting … the rule of law around the world”. But what sort of rule of law allows an innocent person to be locked up for many years and then denied any compensation for their wrongful imprisonment?Outside the summit jamboree, for which a ticket wo
  
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• Suicide prevention expert pulls out of prisons talk over 'censorship'

  23-02-2015 15:40
  
  Louis Appleby says he has withdrawn from presentation having been told not to make any links between rising prison suicides and staffing levelsThe government’s leading expert on suicide prevention has pulled out of a Ministry of Justice presentation on the rising number of suicides in prisons after being told, he says, not to make any link with falling staff numbers.
  Prof Louis Appleby, who oversees the implementation of the national cross-government strategy for suicide prevention, was due
  
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• Summit: dissenters rally at Westminster

  23-02-2015 15:31 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Not the Global Law Summit condemns ‘very poor’ lord chancellor.
  
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• Summit: no change is seldom an option, says Grayling

  23-02-2015 12:08 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Embattled lord chancellor says that challenges are driven by ‘economic reality’.
  
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• Summit: law must continue to innovate, says Grayling

  23-02-2015 12:08 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Embattled lord chancellor says that change can be driven by ‘economic reality’.
  
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• Summit: Magna Carta? Hywel Dda was there first, says Wales

  23-02-2015 11:17 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  10th century Welsh king codified traditional rights and duties.
  
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• Grayling faces Magna Carta challenge to court fee hikes

  23-02-2015 11:10 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Proposals tantamount to ‘selling justice’, contrary to the principles of 1215, Law Society says in pre-action protocol letter.
  
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• Summit: 'Inconvenience' a threat to rule of law - LCJ

  23-02-2015 10:59 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lord Thomas challenges delegates to consider how clauses 39 and 50 of Magna Carta should apply to the modern challenges.
  
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• A vote to criminalise gender-selective abortion will be a disaster for women | Rebecca Schiller

  23-02-2015 10:02
  
  Britain should address the pressures on women, not criminalise them – as happened in the US
  Today MPs will vote on whether to amend the serious crime bill to make abortion based on foetal gender a crime. As someone who cares about gender discrimination, the idea of sex-selective abortion is hard to stomach. I believe that it is important to address the issues that lead to women being pressured to have abortions solely on the grounds of foetal gender. It is essential that we tackle the comple
  
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• Hospital psychiatric detainees more at risk of preventable death

  23-02-2015 07:00
  
  Deaths of more than 600 mentally ill detainees in England and Wales could have been avoided, says Equality and Human Rights Commission reportPatients detained in hospital psychiatric wards are up to five times more likely to suffer a preventable death than mentally ill prisoners in the prisons of England and Wales, according to figures obtained by an official inquiry.
  For the first time, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) examined how civil liberties of detainees with mental healt
  
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• Views wanted on legal innovation

  23-02-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law firms asked to participate in the next phase of a study by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
  
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• Sussex authorities merge legal teams

  23-02-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal team at Eastbourne Borough Council will transfer to the employment of Lewes District Council on 1 April.
  
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• SRA taken to task over perceived City bias

  23-02-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal said it had been placed in ‘a most unsatisfactory position’ by the regulator.
  
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• SDT: Rajesh Shah

  23-02-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll. 
  
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• SDT: Peter Ellis Taylor

  23-02-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll.
  
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• SDT: Michael John Baker

  23-02-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be suspended from practice as a solicitor for one year to commence on 8 April 2015.
  
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• SDT: Michael Anthony Webster

  23-02-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll.
  
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• SDT: James Andrew Evans

  23-02-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be suspended from practice as a solicitor for one year to commence on 20 November 2014.
  
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• SDT: Ajayi Omotayo Seun

  23-02-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll.
  
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• Personal injury: duty of care

  23-02-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Non-delegable duty of care for local authorities in foster care – a tale of two judgments.
  
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• Nick Clegg to decry prison numbers as Lib Dems lay out justice policy

  23-02-2015 01:01
  
  Deputy prime minister expected to outline party’s new plans in speech on Monday, condemning the current system as ‘a litany of despair’The rising prison population in England and Wales is “not a sign of success, it’s a sign of failure”, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg will say on Monday, in a speech outlining his party’s justice policy.The Liberal Democrat leader will say that he wants justice policy to be evidence-based and that, when a politician “bangs their fist on the lecte
  
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• LPC graduates toil to find training contracts

  23-02-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Junior Lawyers Division calls difference in numbers of registered trainees and LPC course finishers ‘very discouraging’.
  
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• Let mediation solve ‘toxic’ disputes – Tory MP

  23-02-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  MoJ last month said it would encourage greater use of mediation in boundary disputes, but stopped short of making it compulsory for all litigants.
  
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• Bring in blame-free divorces and rights for cohabitants, says law body

  23-02-2015 01:01
  
  Resolution, which represents lawyers and professionals dealing with divorce, say families have changed while laws around them have notBlame-free divorces and fairer property rights for cohabiting couples should be introduced as a matter of urgency, a leading family law organisation has urged.In a manifesto aimed at influencing parties in the runup to the general election, Resolution, which represents lawyers and professionals dealing with divorce and separation, has called on politicians to tack
  
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• Argentina’s silent march for Alberto Nisman

  23-02-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  State prosecutor had accused the country’s president and foreign minister of covering up Iran’s role in a 1994 terrorist bombing.
  
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