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• Lawyers fire opening salvo in defining same-sex marriage supreme court case

  27-02-2015 22:27
  
  Briefing argues Michigan ban ‘stigmatises and humiliates adults and children’Supreme court expected to deliver judgment by end of JuneThe legal team asking the supreme court to provide a once-and-for-all decision about same-sex marriage in the US filed their opening salvoes on Friday. Attorneys representing a case challenging Michigan’s ban on such marriages filed their opening briefing arguing that state bans against the practice deprive same-sex couples of their constitutionally protecte
  
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• Chicagoans detail abusive confinement inside Homan Square police 'black site'

  27-02-2015 21:16
  
  Four black men recall prolonged shackling and off-the-books interrogationLawyers: ‘majority of abuse’ at Homan Square focuses on minority AmericansBlack Lives Matter movement backs protests amid pressure for federal inquiryA Chicago man says he was confined for three days – shackled, interrogated and fed only twice, his whereabouts unknown – inside the police “black site” at the epicentre of public outcry over allegations of abuse said to focus on minority citizens.Four black Chicago
  
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• Alexander Litvinenko inquiry: five more things we’ve learned

  27-02-2015 19:10
  
  Three weeks into the inquiry to investigate the roles of Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun in the death of the Russian spy, and the plot keeps thickening Continue reading...
  
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• MI5's battle to identify radicalised Britons likely to turn to terrorism

  27-02-2015 19:00
  
  The security services have identified 3,000 potential Islamist extremists in the UK, but how can they be sure who are the dangerous ‘critical few’? While one set of headlines blame “MI5 blunders” for allowing “Jihadi John to slip the net”, others claim that the British security services’ past “harassment” of the Islamic State (Isis) executioner was in some way responsible for his radicalisation in the first place.Both are potentially dangerous caricatures of the probable answer
  
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• Our immigration policy creates only misery for the vulnerable | Giles Fraser

  27-02-2015 18:58
  
  Home Office lawyers are now appealing any judicial decision based on article 8 of the European convention on human rightsIt was a dull-looking room in a dull-looking office block. Fitted out with few anonymous-looking desks and chairs and a dirty beige carpet, it was marked out as special only by the shield of the royal coat of arms set above one of the chairs where the judge was to sit. “Dieu et mon droit,” it read – God and my right. And given that this was a court of law, one could be f
  
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• Nepalese colonel faces torture trial in UK

  27-02-2015 18:47
  
  Old Bailey hears case of England-based Kumar Lama, accused of torturing two alleged Maoist rebels in Nepal in 2005, under UN convention against torture
  
  A Nepalese army officer has gone on trial at the Old Bailey accused of torturing two alleged Maoist rebels in his homeland 10 years ago.The prosecution of Lieutenant Colonel Kumar Lama, 47, was brought before a London court because of the UK’s obligations under the UN convention against torture to bring suspects to justice wherever they are
  
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• 3-parent babies 'violate human dignity,' breach EU law – MEPs - RT

  27-02-2015 16:29
  
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  3-parent babies 'violate human dignity,' breach EU law – MEPs
  RT
  Britain's recent decision to allow the creation of co-called 'three-parent babies' has breached EU laws and “violated human dignity,” a group of MEPs have said. The European Commission has been asked to step in to halt the move, which will allow the ...
  
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• Northern Ireland police win latest round in battle to hear Boston College tapes

  27-02-2015 15:42
  
  Court of appeal rejects request from Winston ‘Winkie’ Rea to prevent PSNI from listening to his testimony of life inside loyalist terror group during the TroublesThe Police Service of Northern Ireland has won the latest round in its legal battle to listen to the tapes of a former Ulster loyalist prisoner from the controversial Boston College paramilitary archive.Northern Ireland’s court of appeal rejected an appeal from Winston “Winkie” Rea to prevent the PSNI from listening to his tap
  
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• Westminster backs further devolution of Welsh courts

  27-02-2015 15:24 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Single legal jurisdiction of England and Wales safe from reform plans.
  
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• Online motoring pleas go national

  27-02-2015 15:07 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Nearly one-third of people accused of low-level traffic offences have taken up the opportunity to plead online, the Ministry of Justice says. 
  
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• Airline ordered to pay delayed-flight compensation

  27-02-2015 14:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Claimant firm wins another court battle with airline over payments for late flights.
  
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• Appeal granted on criminal legal aid

  27-02-2015 12:23 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Court of Appeal to hear challenges to lord chancellor’s two-tier duty contract reforms on 10 and 11 March.
  
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• Super-regulator targets 'unnecessary' in-house rules

  27-02-2015 10:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  LSB calls on regulators either to justify restrictions on in-house lawyers or get rid of them. 
  
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• Courtney Love loses legal claim because she's not as famous as Marlon Brando

  27-02-2015 09:40
  
  Singer fails in an attempt to get libel suit dismissed after claiming her fame meant her remarks about fashion designer were in the public interestCourtney Love has failed in an attempt to get a libel suit against her dropped by claiming the remarks she made about a fashion designer were in the public interest because of the level of her celebrity. A court dismissed her claims that a case involving Marlon Brando set a precedent, pointing out she is nowhere near as famous as the Godfather star. L
  
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• Rights lawyer Clooney slams Canada over Al-Jazeera journalist - Yahoo News UK

  27-02-2015 03:53
  
  Yahoo News UK
  Rights lawyer Clooney slams Canada over Al-Jazeera journalist
  Yahoo News UK
  Prominent human rights lawyer Amal Clooney lashed out at the Canadian government, accusing Ottawa of "woefully inadequate" efforts to secure the repatriation of Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy from Egypt. In a scathing rebuke of Prime Minister ...
  
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• Singapore students in UK hit out at law school restrictions - Channel News Asia

  27-02-2015 00:15
  
  Channel News Asia
  Singapore students in UK hit out at law school restrictions
  Channel News Asia
  TODAY reports: Students and alumni of the eight affected universities are concerned that their universities will be perceived as inferior to those still on the list. PHOTOS. File photo of a lawyer making his way to court in Singapore. (Photo: Francine ...
  Look beyond schools and rankings, urges UK Singapore law students' societyThe Straits Times
  S'pore students in UK hit out at law school res
  
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