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• Zambian court to decide whether prosecutor can drop case against himself

  01-03-2015 18:49
  
  Magistrate Lameck Mwale to rule on whether director of public prosecution Mutembo Nchito is legally allowed to declare himself a free manA Zambian magistrate will decide the future of a case in which the country’s top prosecutor said he would not be pursuing a case against himself and declared himself a free man.
  “I am the director of public prosecution of the republic of Zambia and I have decided to enter a nolle prosequi against all the charges,” Mutembo Nchito told the magistrate from
  
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• E-conveyancing venture sets price tag

  01-03-2015 16:48 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Veyo portal will charge £20 flat fee per transaction. 
  
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• UK govt figures wrangle over 'hate preachers' law - Al-Arabiya

  01-03-2015 10:59
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  Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron speaks at the Welsh Conservative Party Conference in Cardiff, Wales February 27, 2015. (Reuters). Text size A A A. Staff writer, Al Arabiya News Sunday, 1 March 2015. Senior figures in UK PM David Cameron's ...
  
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• Homan Square protesters demand answers over Chicago police 'black site'

  01-03-2015 04:00
  
  Crowd gathers outside facility at centre of claims of unconstitutional abuseAnonymous and Black Lives Matter among groups represented Related: The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site' More than 100 activists and community leaders rallied in Chicago on Saturday to call for official investigations into and even a shutdown of Homan Square, the police facility at the centre of allegations over unconstitutional abuse and a growing protest movement known as #Gitmo2
  
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• Chile president visits girl with cystic fibrosis who posted euthanasia video

  01-03-2015 01:17
  
  Michelle Bachelet talks to Valentina Maureira in hospital for more than an hour, but does not grant her wish to ‘get a shot that will make me sleep forever’Chile’s president has visited a hospital to meet with a 14-year-old girl who shocked the country by pleading on YouTube for the leader to let doctors euthanise her because she was tired of her struggle with cystic fibrosis.The government quickly said no after the video began spreading on social media on Thursday. Related: Chile's presid
  
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• Youth prison deaths prompt calls for reform

  01-03-2015 01:05
  
  Figures show 65 young people died in detention over four yearsFigures have revealed that 65 children and young adults have died in detention during the last four years, an average of one a month.The figures, in a report by campaign group Inquest, prompted renewed calls for a fundamental rethink about the suitability of prison for young people, arguing that “a litany of systemic neglect, institutional complacency and short-sighted policies” contributed to the deaths. Continue reading...
  
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• Rise of Sri Lanka’s luxury tourist resorts ‘fuels round of human rights abuses’

  01-03-2015 01:05
  
  British-based travel agencies among those named in report as hotel complexes hit traditional way of lifeBritish-based travel agencies are among the European holiday firms criticised in a report that alleges tourism development in Sri Lanka is prompting new human rights abuses.Large-scale tourism developments since the end of the civil war six years ago have had disastrous effects on local communities, including cases of fishermen losing their access to the sea and allegations of land grabbing by
  
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• Their crimes provoke repulsion but it is our duty to rehabilitate sex offenders

  01-03-2015 01:03
  
  In the wake of Stoke Mandeville’s report on Jimmy Savile, an award-winning project that works with prisoners has cut reoffending rates by 83%Mike Smith is a sex offender who served a 10-year jail sentence for abuse he carried out within his family. On release, he was sent to a hostel in London, under the supervision of the probation service.“The only people I associated with,” he recalls, “were other sex offenders. Some of them were child sex offenders. Some of them were rapists of adult
  
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• Jailing more and more people fails offenders and society | the big issue

  01-03-2015 01:03
  
  Criticising Britain’s punitive penal policy is seen as pro-crime and anti-victimNick Cohen raises a number of important issues regarding the inhumanity of super prisons (“Super-jails are the inhumane mark of ignorant politicians”, Comment). However, he misses two important points. First, despite the apparent U-turn on the super-prison for women, the upward trend in Scotland’s prison population indicates that there is a serious issue with penal policy in the country. The population rose f
  
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