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• The Guardian view on zero-hours: the number that keeps getting bigger | Editorial

  25-02-2015 21:07
  
  The quantity of jobs is a pleasant surprise in this recovery, but the quality is often a shock. Zero-hours workers must be given the right to demand fixed hours after six monthsLet’s not be sour. The bounceback in jobs during the current recovery has been staggering – exceeding all predictions. During the depths of the slump too, although things were dreadful, the UK shed far fewer posts than any of the macroeconomic models suggested. Whereas in the past there had been something close to a o
  
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• Labour’s proposals are fiddling while the prison estate burns | Letter: Frances Crook of The Howard League for Penal Reform

  25-02-2015 19:56
  
  Your interview with Jenny Chapman, the shadow prisons minister (25 February) was as illuminating for what she didn’t say as for what she did. There are some welcome suggestions, including bringing in health, local authority and voluntary-sector links to improve managing prisons and keeping governors in post for a bit longer. But these are fiddling while the prison estate burns.There are two significant challenges for any incoming government. First, in order merely to keep overcrowding to its c
  
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• Driver of Glasgow bin lorry that killed six people not to be prosecuted

  25-02-2015 18:37
  
  Scottish Crown Office says there is no evidence 58-year-old Harry Clarke, who fell unconscious at the wheel, broke criminal or health-and-safety lawsThe driver of the bin lorry that killed six people in Glasgow’s George Square just before Christmas will not be prosecuted for his role in the accident. 58-year-old Harry Clarke collapsed unconscious at the wheel of the council vehicle before it mounted a pavement and ploughed through lunchtime shoppers on 22 December 2014. Continue reading...
  
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• UK law firms report strongest growth for 6 years - Financial Times

  25-02-2015 18:21
  Financial Times
  UK law firms report strongest growth for 6 years
  Financial Times
  The improving UK economy has helped law firms record their strongest growth for six years in 2013. The largest law firms also benefited from international expansion, opening a string of offices outside the UK, according to the annual study of the legal ...
  
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• Abercrombie & Fitch case: justices set to side with Muslim woman over headscarf

  25-02-2015 18:09
  
  US supreme court hears arguments in religious discrimination case involving woman who was not hired because she wore a black headscarf to interview Related: US supreme court hears Abercrombie & Fitch religious discrimination case The supreme court on Wednesday indicated it would side with a Muslim woman who was not hired by clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch because she wore a black headscarf that conflicted with the company’s dress code to her job interview. Continue reading...
  
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• Summit: do the right thing, Neuberger tells lawyers

  25-02-2015 17:56 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Danger is that events such as the GLS can be held in a ‘self-congratulatory bubble’, president of the Supreme Court tells attendees.
  
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• Removal of 8 UK law schools from approved list 'only logical': Law Society - Channel News Asia

  25-02-2015 17:30
  
  Channel News Asia
  Removal of 8 UK law schools from approved list 'only logical': Law Society
  Channel News Asia
  The Law Society says this move is logical, given that there are more law students than training contracts available. PHOTOS; VIDEOS. (Photo: Ministry of Law website). Enlarge; Caption. Cannot Contact Server. Please upgrade your Flash Plugin ...
  
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• Summit: top companies’ rule of law concerns in China and Brazil

  25-02-2015 17:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  China, Bangladesh and Brazil lead the list of countries where $1bn companies report concerns about the rule of law. 
  
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• Brits abroad: Is it against the law to fight Isis?

  25-02-2015 17:16
  
  There has been plenty of coverage for British jihadis who have joined the terrorist group, but a handful of UK citizens have travelled to Iraq and Syria to fight against it – leaving them in a legal grey areaThe focus has been on westerners going to Syria and Iraq to join Isis, but a smaller, less-well-publicised number are going to fight against it. Tim Locks, a former bouncer who runs a building company, has sold his house and gone to Iraq to fight with a Christian militia group, Dwekh Nawsh
  
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• Summit: Boris Johnson leaves them wanting more

  25-02-2015 15:53 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  ’A lawyer-driven ecstasy of nambi-pambiness.’ Mayor of London justifies his headline billing by remaining entirely in character. 
  
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• Summit: lawyers vital in sporting successes

  25-02-2015 15:40 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  GLS told that extraordinary amount of behind-the-scenes work by lawyers helps major events triumph.
  
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• Summit: human rights must be in business DNA – Blair

  25-02-2015 15:14 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Cherie Blair QC: employers want to feel good about being employed in a company.
  
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• Summit: Law firm income topped £32bn in 2014 - TheCityUK

  25-02-2015 13:59 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The legal sector’s strong recovery from the crash continues, but the overall growth rate is down.
  
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• Summit: targeted sanctions ‘a problem for the rule of law’

  25-02-2015 12:29 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Former attorney general warns well-meaning governments about ‘making a rod for their own back’.
  
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• Summit: Magna Carta – ‘equality before the law in gestation’

  25-02-2015 11:43 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The great charter has a life of its own, says former lord chief justice.
  
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• British police investigated over attempts to recruit activists as spies

  25-02-2015 09:00
  
  Two Cambridgeshire officers face misconduct allegations after approaches by covert unit that campaigners said left them stressed and paranoid, with some ending their political activities
  Two police officers who worked for a covert unit monitoring protesters are being investigated for alleged misconduct during attempts to recruit campaigners to spy on other activists.The investigation was launched after four campaigners alleged that they felt intimidated by police officers who were trying to turn
  
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• The would-be minister with inside knowledge of the prisons beat | Erwin James

  25-02-2015 08:59
  
  Labour’s shadow prisons minister Jenny Champman hopes her insights into life behind bars could hold the key to a fairer penal system after May’s electionThe shadow prisons minister, Jenny Chapman, 41, has valuable insights rarely afforded to politicians with her brief. As a 19-year-old assistant psychologist on work placements from university, her job included helping to run anger management, social skills and anti-bullying groups in high-security prisons.“I was a bit naive. My dad was wor
  
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• United Kingdom first to allow three people to birth a child - UPI.com

  25-02-2015 08:53
  
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  United Kingdom first to allow three people to birth a child
  UPI.com
  This microscopic photo shows the injection of a somatic cell, right, into a nuclear-removed human egg cell during an experiment at Seoul National University. South Korean scientists have cloned the first mature embryonic stem cell line, a step towards ...
  
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• Will a new UK law eradicate supply chain slavery? - Reuters UK

  25-02-2015 01:50
  Free Malaysia Today
  Will a new UK law eradicate supply chain slavery?
  Reuters UK
  LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Whether it is high street fashion, bedding from a department store or eggs from a supermarket, few British shoppers would stop to ask whether slave labour was involved in making their goods. Yet forced labour often ...
  ANALYSIS-Will a new UK law eradicate supply chain slavery?Thomson Reuters Foundation
  
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• Court fees 'no serious risk' to legal services - minister

  25-02-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  House of Commons committee agrees fees for civil litigation claims over £10,000.
  
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• Lawyer: Toss politician's bribe case over prosecutor's words - Yahoo News UK

  25-02-2015 00:35
  
  Yahoo News UK
  Lawyer: Toss politician's bribe case over prosecutor's words
  Yahoo News UK
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara didn't mince words after bringing bribery charges against then-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, saying the powerful lawmaker practiced "the greedy art of secret self-reward." Now Silver's lawyers say the ...
  
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