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• Ireland passes plain packaging of tobacco law as UK anticipates legal battle - CITY A.M.

  03-03-2015 22:50
  
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  Ireland passes plain packaging of tobacco law as UK anticipates legal battle
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  The Republic of Ireland has become the first country in the EU to pass a law requiring the plain packaging of cigarettes. The bill, which must be signed by the country's President, makes Ireland only the second country in the world to remove branding ...
  Irish parliament passes plain tobacco packaging lawLondon South East
  
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• Lawyer: NSA leaker Edward Snowden wants to return home - Yahoo News UK

  03-03-2015 21:34
  
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  Lawyer: NSA leaker Edward Snowden wants to return home
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  MOSCOW (AP) — NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden wants to return to the United States from Russia if he's guaranteed a fair trial, his Russian lawyer said Tuesday. Anatoly Kucherena told a news conference Tuesday that he has teamed up with U.S. ...
  
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• Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley refuses to appear before MPs

  03-03-2015 21:27
  
  Committee’s bid to grill billionaire on collapse of his USC subsidiary and use of zero-hours contracts could come to nothingThe Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley has rebuffed MPs who wanted to grill him over the treatment of staff at the company’s USC retail business in Scotland and the use of zero-hours contracts.The billionaire told MPs it was more appropriate that chief executive David Foley attend the Scottish Affairs committee, which is conducting an investigation into how the business
  
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• UK Lawyer Urges Political Debate Among Muslims to Avoid Radicalization - Sputnik International

  03-03-2015 21:22
  
  UK Lawyer Urges Political Debate Among Muslims to Avoid Radicalization
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  A prominent UK human rights lawyer says that fear of being labelled as an Islamic extremist is leading to a quelling of legitimate political debate among Muslims and obscuring signs of radicalization among younger followers, especially young Muslim ...
  
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• Paul Gambaccini: police used me as 'flypaper' for almost a year

  03-03-2015 19:59
  
  BBC Radio DJ tells MPs of his support for police bail limit of 28 days, after his bail was extended seven times in 2014, costing £200,000 in earnings and legal costsThe broadcaster Paul Gambaccini has told MPs he was used as human “flypaper” by prosecutors for almost a year in relation to a now-dropped allegation of historic sex abuse, with his arrest publicised in the hope that other people would come forward to make allegations against him.Gambaccini told the Commons home affairs select c
  
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• Rice's lawyer: Cleveland's lawsuit response was insulting - Yahoo News UK

  03-03-2015 19:28
  
  Rice's lawyer: Cleveland's lawsuit response was insulting
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  CLEVELAND (AP) — The attorney for the family of a 12-year-old boy who had a pellet gun when he was fatally shot by Cleveland police says the city's response to the family's lawsuit was insulting and disrespectful. Tamir Rice's mother and her attorneys ...
  
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• Venture capitalist John Doerr to testify in Silicon Valley sex discrimination case

  03-03-2015 18:46
  
  Ellen Pao claims she missed promotion after affair with partner in 2006Pao was Doerr’s chief of staff before joining firm’s digital teamVenture capitalist John Doerr, credited with backing Amazon, Google and many other technology companies, is set to testify on Tuesday in a gender discrimination trial involving his firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Doerr, viewed as the firm’s leader, is likely to discuss his treatment of former partner Ellen Pao, his chief of staff before she joi
  
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• Inside Chicago's legacy of police abuse: violence 'as routine as traffic lights'

  03-03-2015 18:39
  
  Ordinary Chicagoans say Homan Square facility, where suspects are interrogated and detained without legal access, fits within a broader tradition of police abuse He would go on to investigate torture for a distinguished religious group, become an anti-apartheid campaigner and even an adviser to his city’s mayor. But before all that, in the early 1960s, Prexy Nesbitt was just another young black man thrown over the hood of his car by one of Chicago’s notoriously brutal police.Nesbitt, then in
  
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• Grayling JR amendment ‘unlawful’ – High Court

  03-03-2015 17:11 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Solicitors challenged lord chancellor’s ‘no permission, no fee’ arrangement.
  
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• UN drugs body warns US states and Uruguay over cannabis legalisation

  03-03-2015 17:08
  
  International Narcotics Control Board report says US and Uruguay are breaking drug treaties and warns of huge rise in abuse of ADHD treatment RitalinThe United Nations has renewed its warnings to Uruguay and the US states of Colorado and Washington that their cannabis legalisation policies fail to comply with the international drug treaties.The annual report from the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board, which is responsible for policing the drug treaties, said it would send a high-level
  
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• Mapping the global battle to protect our planet

  03-03-2015 16:08
  
  A new project maps environmental protest across the world, powerfully visualising a growing movement In 2012 protests erupted in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina over the demolition of a much beloved local park to build a business complex. A movement under the slogan “This Park is Ours” aimed originally at protecting the green space soon broadened into a collective movement aimed against corruption, lack of transparency, economic inequality and dwindling social services. Hundreds of protes
  
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• ‘No duty’ on conveyancer to check seller’s credit status

  03-03-2015 15:58 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  High Court dismisses negligence claim against London law firm. 
  
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• Influential Mozambican lawyer Cistac gunned down in taxi - Yahoo News UK

  03-03-2015 15:57
  
  Influential Mozambican lawyer Cistac gunned down in taxi
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  MAPUTO (Reuters) - A gunman shot dead on Tuesday a prominent Mozambican lawyer who was viewed as sympathetic to opposition calls for decentralisation of power in the resource-rich southern African country. Gilles Cistac, 54 and of French origin, had ...
  
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• Lawyer for UK phone hacking victims says illegal eavesdropping was 'rife' at ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune

  03-03-2015 15:45
  
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  Lawyer for UK phone hacking victims says illegal eavesdropping was 'rife' at ...
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  LONDON — Phone hacking was "rife" for years at tabloids owned by Britain's Trinity Mirror PLC, a lawyer for victims of illegal eavesdropping said Tuesday. David Sherborne said the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People tabloids likely began hacking ...
  Trinity Mirror's Journalists Hacked Voice Mails on Large Scale, Lawyer Tells ...Wall Street
  
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• Britain can be at the heart of a torture-free Europe | Thorbjørn Jagland

  03-03-2015 14:07
  
  For 25 years the Council of Europe has been fighting torture. As its head, I urge all our states to commit to erasing police and prison brutalityIn an Austrian prison 25 years ago, a team of foreign monitors heard repeatedly from prisoners who had been beaten in police custody. Over an eight-day period, serious abuse was exposed in a country where few had imagined it. Protections were subsequently put in place – and Europe’s anti-torture committee was born.You haven’t heard of them. And ye
  
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• Students need to learn about sexual assault and consent long before college

  03-03-2015 13:30
  
  There is too much misinformation and confusion about rape. That is why we should be teaching consent in high school
  There are some essential life skills that high schools know they have to teach students. That’s why most offer classes like woodshop, home economics and drivers education. So I have to ask: Given that we’re keen to teach teenagers the basics they need to function in society, why do we still have no mandated education around rape?Expecting high schoolers to fully grasp what sexu
  
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• Tougher punishments for texting while driving won’t work | Mark Whitehead

  03-03-2015 13:06
  
  Mobiles are so deeply embedded in our social and work habits that not using them means a fundamental change in behaviourGloucestershire’s chief constable was right to call for tougher punishments for drivers repeatedly caught using their mobile phones. Driving while using your phone creates serious risks that justify stringent state intervention – even so far as banning drivers. However, in the long term, it is clear that Suzette Davenport’s suggestion of more severe penalties is not the o
  
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• PI lawyers file JR challenge to whiplash plans

  03-03-2015 12:43 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Court action started to block plans for ‘cab rank’ rule on soft tissue injuries.
  
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• Professionals blamed Oxfordshire girls for their sexual abuse, report finds

  03-03-2015 12:00
  
  Police and social services mindset that six girls were ‘difficult’ contributed to years of rape, torture and extreme sexual violence, serious case review says
  Police and social services blamed vulnerable girls who were being subjected to sexual torture and abuse for years by older men in Oxfordshire for putting themselves at risk, an independent report into the failure to stop their exploitation says.The serious case review into why professionals ignored multiple warning signs and failed to
  
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• Telephone gateway ‘barrier’ to justice

  03-03-2015 11:54 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal charity reports use of mandatory gateway for civil legal advice has been far lower than expected. 
  
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• Former UK journalism, law professor dies - Kykernel.com (subscription)

  03-03-2015 06:15
  Former UK journalism, law professor dies
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  Former chair of the UK School of Journalism Dwight L. Teeter died on Friday in Knoxville, Tenn., at 80 years old. Teeter was an adjunct professor of law in the mid-1970s and also taught journalism courses at UK, according to the University of Tennessee ...
  
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• Victorian charter of human rights to be 'strengthened' by government review

  03-03-2015 03:57
  
  Attorney general says the aim is to ensure the charter’s ‘ongoing effectiveness in protecting the fundamental rights of Victorians’The Victorian government has vowed to strengthen the state’s human rights law after launching a review of the charter that sets out the basic freedoms of Victorians.
  Michael Brett Young, former chief executive of the Law Institute of Victoria, has been appointed to lead the review, the first since 2011.
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