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• Lawyer for Al-Jazeera journalist blasts Canadian government - Yahoo News UK

  26-02-2015 22:32
  
  Lawyer for Al-Jazeera journalist blasts Canadian government
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  TORONTO (AP) — The lawyer for a Canadian Al-Jazeera journalist is blasting the Canadian government for not doing enough to secure his release from Egypt. Journalist Mohamed Fahmy is out on bail awaiting retrial after more than a year behind bars in ...
  
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• S'pore students in UK hit out at law school restrictions - TODAYonline

  26-02-2015 21:34
  
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  S'pore students in UK hit out at law school restrictions
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  SINGAPORE — As a debate ensues on the pros and cons of different methods of ensuring the quality of returning law graduates from the United Kingdom, some law students there have lamented the restriction of choices for prospective students wanting a ...
  
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• Zero-hours workers scared to assert their rights | Letters from Sarah Jackson of Working Families, John Pepper

  26-02-2015 20:27
  
  The casualisation of work leaves many on zero-hours contracts unable or unwilling to access existing employment rights (Editorial, 26 February). A common theme of callers to the Working Families helpline is stress and uncertainty; they are unable to predict how much they will earn in any week. This causes problems for budgeting week to week as well as planning ahead for maternity pay. Many callers complain that, although they have no guaranteed hours, the employer tells them that if they are una
  
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• Richard Hutchinson obituary

  26-02-2015 19:32
  
  Richard Hutchinson, who has died aged 87, was one of the finest judges ever to have sat in a court of law. He was a brilliant lawyer, fair, wise, decisive, and unfailingly courteous and patient. It was a delight for any advocate to appear in his court.Son of John and May Hutchinson, he was born in Bradford. His father was an insurance company superintendent. Richard attended St Bede’s grammar school. At the age of 14, he decided he wanted to be a barrister. He studied law at University College
  
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• Munby turns his guns on excess bundles

  26-02-2015 18:57 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Judge lays down the law after bundle with 591 pages submitted by party in family court.
  
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• Leveson warns defenders on procedure ‘trap’

  26-02-2015 17:55 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Court of Appeal judgment highlights case management pressures.
  
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• How girl activists helped to ban child marriage in Malawi

  26-02-2015 17:45
  
  Malawi has raised the legal marrying age from 15 to 18. A girls’ rights campaigner explains how advocates secured this victory
  Malawi banned child marriage last week through new legislation that increases the legal age of marriage from 15 to 18, representing a major victory for girls in a country that has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. More than half of girls are married off as children, sometimes as early as the age of nine. Child marriage is both the cause and con
  
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• British American Tobacco says would fight UK 'plain packaging' law - Reuters UK

  26-02-2015 17:23
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  British American Tobacco says would fight UK 'plain packaging' law
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  Cigarettes are seen during the manufacturing process in the British American Tobacco Cigarette Factory (BAT) in Bayreuth, southern Germany, April 30, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Michaela Rehle. Related Topics. Business ». Quotes. British American Tobacco ...
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  British American Tobacco to Sue UK Government If Plain Pack
  
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• Egypt detains 2 police officers over lawyer's death - Yahoo News UK

  26-02-2015 16:00
  
  Egypt detains 2 police officers over lawyer's death
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  CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities detained two police officers on Thursday over allegations that they had tortured a lawyer to death inside a police station, the latest in a series of recent incidents that underline alleged abuses by the country's ...
  
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• Summit: client communications ‘routinely intercepted’

  26-02-2015 15:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Government snooping threatening the most cherished of human rights.
  
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• 'Gestapo' tactics at US police 'black site' ring alarm from Chicago to Washington

  26-02-2015 14:38
  
  Shocked politicians and rights groups call for inquiries into Homan SquareRahm Emanuel faces questions as top supporters examine ‘outrageous’ abuseThe US Department of Justice and embattled mayor Rahm Emanuel are under mounting pressure to investigate allegations of what one politician called “CIA or Gestapo tactics” at a secretive Chicago police facility exposed by the Guardian.Politicians and civil-rights groups across the US expressed shock upon hearing descriptions of off-the-books i
  
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• UK tax authority summons law enforcers over HSBC data - Financial Times

  26-02-2015 14:27
  UK tax authority summons law enforcers over HSBC data
  Financial Times
  Britain's tax authority has called law enforcement agencies to a meeting early next week to assess whether there are grounds to open an investigation into the HSBC banking group. The meeting between HM Revenue & Customs and the Serious Fraud Office, ...
  
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• Jimmy Savile and the complex question of victim compensation

  26-02-2015 14:27
  
  The executors of the sexual abuser’s estate are already considering claims, but the NHS and BBC will be liable too
  It is now known that 60 people from Stoke Mandeville hospital were abused by Jimmy Savile. But will they and his other victims receive compensation? And where will the money come from?The claimants’ first target is Savile’s estate. On his death in October 2011, the former BBC DJ left £4.3m. Eight named beneficiaries were given lifetime interests in a fund of £600,0
  
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• Felony murder: why a teenager who didn't kill anyone faces 55 years in jail

  26-02-2015 13:00
  
  Blake Layman broke into a house unarmed. The homeowner opened fire, injuring him and killing a friend. But Indiana law means he is officially a murdererBlake Layman made one very bad decision. He was 16, an unexceptional teenager growing up in a small Indiana town. He’d never been in trouble with the law, had a clean criminal record, had never owned or even held a gun.That decision sparked a chain of events that would culminate with his arrest and trial for “felony murder”. The boy was una
  
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• MoJ makes U-turn on LASPO insolvency exemption

  26-02-2015 11:53 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Government retains exemption for creditors making claims against insolvent companies.
  
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• Claims giant targets insurer-led ABS with £25m war chest

  26-02-2015 11:51 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Company that bought NewLaw last year has further expansion plans.
  
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• Senior staff at UK hospital 'knew of Savile abuse', says lawyer - BreakingNews.ie

  26-02-2015 09:57
  
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  Senior staff at UK hospital 'knew of Savile abuse', says lawyer
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  There is clear evidence that senior staff at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in England knew about the abuse of young patients at the hands of Jimmy Savile, a lawyer representing many of his victims has said. The findings of a further series of ...
  
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• A county court judgment that I didn’t know about has cost me dearly

  26-02-2015 08:01
  
  The CCJ was filed against the wrong person and has adversely affected my credit ratingI realised yesterday that I have a mystery county court judgment against me. The matter relates to a rented address that I left in 2006. I called the company which had brought the case on behalf of a bank nearly three years ago, and they realised that my date of birth did not match the one they had on file, and that the CCJ has been filed against the wrong person. Continue reading...
  
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• Look beyond a law school's name: UK law students society - TODAYonline

  26-02-2015 05:34
  
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  Look beyond a law school's name: UK law students society
  TODAYonline
  SINGAPORE — The eight UK law schools dropped from the Ministry of Law's list of approved foreign universities recognised for admission to the Singapore Bar have produced successful lawyers in firms here, illustrating the “tenuous link” between the ...
  
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• China's top court rejects judicial independence as 'erroneous thought'

  26-02-2015 05:30
  
  Blow for hopes of reform as country’s most senior judge, Zhou Qiang, urges Community party to resist ‘mistaken viewpoints’ including separation of powersChina’s top court has urged officials from the ruling Communist party to shun western-style judicial independence and reject “erroneous western thought”, state media has said, as controls over the media, dissent and the internet are tightened. The comments by China’s supreme court constitute Beijing’s latest attack on western ide
  
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• Delisting of law schools 'misguided': UK Singapore Law Students' Society - Channel News Asia

  26-02-2015 05:23
  
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  Delisting of law schools 'misguided': UK Singapore Law Students' Society
  Channel News Asia
  The President of the United Kingdom Singapore Law Students' Society says he hopes the move will not reinforce "second-tier" perceptions when law firms assess graduates from the affected institutions. PHOTOS. (Photo: Ministry of Law website). Enlarge ...
  
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