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• Difret review – the true story of a rape victim who fought back

  05-03-2015 23:15
  
  This Ethiopian docudrama recreates the game-changing legal case involving a 14-year-old who shot her kidnapperEthiopian director Zeresenay Mehari’s docudrama recounts a game-changing legal case from the mid-90s that involved a 14-year-old girl named Hirut (played by Tizita Hagere) who tried to plead self-defence after fatally shooting the man who abducted and raped her. Local star Meron Getnet, who’s terrific, co-stars as Hirut’s pro-bono lawyer Meaza Ashenafi, a feisty modern woman w
  
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• Reddit CEO Ellen Pao to testify at sexual discrimination trial

  05-03-2015 21:24
  
  Woman who has accused Silicon Valley firm of passing her over for a promotion because of her gender will take the stand on ThursdayThe woman who has accused one of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious venture capital firms of sex discrimination will take the stand on Thursday in a case that is shining a harsh light on the treatment of women in the tech community.
  Ellen Pao is suing for $16m she says she lost when she was passed over for promotion at legendary tech investment firm Kleiner Perkin
  
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• The Guardian view on India’s Daughter: a necessary spotlight | Editorial

  05-03-2015 20:44
  
  By blocking this BBC film about the assault and murder of Jyoti Singh, Delhi appears unwilling to grasp the connection between rape and wider misogynyThe crime was exceptionally shocking, but it grew out of a misogyny that is all too common. As much as the harrowing details of the gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh, it was the sense that this horror was animated by attitudes that condemn many Indian women to lesser indignities and injuries every day that brought vast crowds on to the stree
  
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• France women's minister appears to support headscarves ban in universities

  05-03-2015 19:28
  
  Socialist Pascale Boistard says: ‘I’m not sure the headscarf is part of higher education’ and reignites debate – but college leaders are against any prohibitionFrance is embroiled in a fresh row over the state’s attitude to the Muslim headscarf after the socialist minister for women’s rights appeared to support banning students from wearing veils at French universities.
  In a video for Le Figaro, Pascale Boistard was asked if she was against the wearing of the headscarf at universit
  
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• Whiplash MedCo doctors given weeks to find £75,000 fee

  05-03-2015 18:42 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Solicitors will be given a choice of medical reporting organisation when finding an expert for whiplash diagnosis.
  
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• UK aid watchdog right to criticise DfID over law and justice operations - The Guardian

  05-03-2015 17:59
  
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  An Afghan woman at a cemetery in Kabul: Icai's report notes that failure to understand the political nature of law has resulted in little change to legal systems overall. Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images ...
  
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• UK aid watchdog right to criticise DfID over law and justice operations

  05-03-2015 17:59
  
  DfID must take a more evidence-based approach to funding, building on its successes in small-scale community justice programmesThe rule of law is critical to development. When there is rule of law, people and their assets are safe, and more importantly, they can earn a living, save, send their children to school: they can invest in their futures. Mohammed Bouazizi who set himself – and the Middle East – alight, was driven to self-immolation because the police and municipal authorities who sh
  
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• 'Stop the conspiracy of silence over Darfur'

  05-03-2015 17:52
  
  Six years have passed since Sudan’s president was indicted for war crimes. In an open letter to the chief prosecutor of the ICC whistleblower Aicha Elbasri implores the court to re-open the investigationDear Fatou Bensouda,
  Yesterday marked the six-year anniversary of the international criminal court’s (ICC) arrest warrant for Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Darfur. Your decision was with criticism and despair by the people of Da
  
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• Eye for an eye: Iran blinds man who carried out acid attack

  05-03-2015 17:30
  
  Other acid attackers have been sentenced to be blinded in Iran but this is the first time it has been carried out, amid condemnation from human rights groups In a literal application of the sharia law of an eye for an eye, an Iranian man convicted of blinding another man in an acid attack has himself been blinded in one eye, marking the first time Iran has carried out such retributive punishment.
  The convicted acid attacker, who has not been identified, was rendered unconscious in Rajaishahr
  
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• Eye for an eye: Iran blinds acid attacker

  05-03-2015 17:30
  
  Medics gouge out man’s eye in first known case where retribution ruling has been carried out, amid condemnation from human rights groups In a literal application of the sharia law of an eye for an eye, an Iranian man convicted of blinding another man in an acid attack has been blinded in one eye, marking the first time Iran has carried out such a punishment.
  The convicted acid attacker, who has not been identified, was rendered unconscious in Rajai-Shahr prison in the city of Karaj on Tuesd
  
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• Supreme court sets April date to hear same-sex marriage cases

  05-03-2015 17:00
  
  Justices will hear 150-minute argument about state bans on gay marriageHearing will concern bans in Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan and Tennessee Related: Gay marriage is legal in 32 US states – but what about the other 18? The US supreme court on Thursday said it will hear oral arguments on 28 April on whether states can ban gay marriage, addressing a hot social issue in what promises to yield one of the justices’ most important rulings of the year. Continue reading...
  
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• Sue today, not on Monday: enhanced fees risk a rush to court

  05-03-2015 16:47
  
  The House of Lords has approved plans to increase charges by up to 600% from Monday, which could result in a glut of cases before the weekendA few days could make all the difference for those involved in issuing civil claims in the courts of England and Wales. If you sue someone this week and claim £200,000, you will have to pay a court fee of £1,515. On Monday, that fee goes up to £10,000. So expect a busy Friday.We knew this was coming, of course. I wrote in January about pla
  
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• UK Law Firm Threatens to Take Legal Action Against Government Over Illegal ... - Sahara Press Service

  05-03-2015 16:39
  
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  London — The UK law firm Leigh Day, who is representing the Western Sahara Campaign, has threatened the government to take legal action against the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and Her Majesty's Revenue and ...
  
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• Gay asylum seekers need our help | Julie Bindel

  05-03-2015 15:35
  
  Lesbians and gay men in the UK may have legal parity but asylum seekers have been abandoned to a cruel systemThe case of Aderonke Apata, the lesbian and gay rights campaigner who was told this week that she would not be given refugee status in Britain, is just one example of the appalling situation faced by gay asylum seekers escaping persecution. Apata is terrified of being deported back to Nigeria, and for very good reason. Legislation passed last year criminalises same-sex marriages and gay g
  
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• Smoking ban must be enforced in prisons, judge rules

  05-03-2015 14:35
  
  Justice secretary wrongly understood jails to be exempt, but is given time to appeal against the ruling and its implementation is postponedThe ban on smoking in public places must be enforced in state prisons as well despite warnings that it could provoke widespread unrest in jails across England and Wales, a high court judge has ruled.Mr Justice Singh said the justice secretary “wrongly understood” an exemption under 2006 health legislation banning smoking in workplaces and enclosed public
  
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• Shot in the chest, racially abused: tales of police discrimination in Ferguson

  05-03-2015 14:11
  
  A damning DoJ report detailed Ferguson police’s excessuve use of force, unlawful arrests and civil rights violations. Oliver Laughland looks at five human stories“The harms of Ferguson’s police and court practices are borne disproportionately by African Americans, and there is evidence that this is due in part to the intentional discrimination on the basis of race,” concluded a damning investigation published by the US department of justice on Wednesday. Related: Ferguson mired in sweepi
  
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• A fair hearing for sovereign debt

  05-03-2015 13:40
  
  A UK ruling on sovereign debt liabilities reminds us that US judges are not the world’s judgesLast July, when United States federal judge Thomas Griesa ruled that Argentina had to repay in full the so-called vulture funds that had bought its sovereign debt at rockbottom prices, the country was forced into default, or “Griesafault”. The decision reverberated far and wide, affecting bonds issued in a variety of jurisdictions, suggesting that US courts held sway over contracts executed in oth
  
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• Irwin Mitchell follows Slater and Gordon with rebrand

  05-03-2015 12:59 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Firm puts off listing on stock exchange for now but says option remains open.
  
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• Senior police chief: terrorist convicted in US should have been tried in UK

  05-03-2015 11:29
  
  Greater Manchester’s chief constable, Sir Peter Fahy, calls for review of why UK authorities were forced to free Abid Naseer in 2009One of the UK’s most senior police officers has called for a review of why UK authorities were forced to free a Manchester terrorist in 2009 due to lack of evidence, when US prosecutors managed to convict the same man on Wednesday.
  Greater Manchester’s chief constable, Sir Peter Fahy, has said Abid Naseer, who was arrested six years ago amid fears that he wa
  
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• Police chief: terrorist convicted in US should have been tried in UK

  05-03-2015 11:29
  
  Greater Manchester’s chief constable, Sir Peter Fahy, calls for review of why UK authorities were forced to free Abid Naseer in 2009One of the UK’s most senior police officers has called for a review of why UK authorities were forced to free a Manchester terrorist in 2009 due to lack of evidence, when US prosecutors managed to convict the same man on Wednesday.
  Greater Manchester’s chief constable, Sir Peter Fahy, has said Abid Naseer, who was arrested six years ago amid fears that he wa
  
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• Court fee increase imminent as levy clears parliament

  05-03-2015 09:12 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Minister says those who use the court should contribute more to its running costs.
  
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• Tsarnaev behind Boston bomb: lawyer - Belfast Telegraph

  05-03-2015 01:30
  
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  Tsarnaev behind Boston bomb: lawyer
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  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has gone on trial for his life over the Boston Marathon bombing, with his own lawyer bluntly telling the jury he did it - bu t arguing that he had fallen under the evil influence of his older brother.
  Boston Bomb Accused's Lawyer: 'It Was Him'Yahoo News UK
  
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• SFO launches investigation into Bank of England liquidity auctions

  05-03-2015 00:45
  
  It is unclear whether the Bank’s employees are suspected of involvement in any attempt to rig the auctions, used as emergency lending during the credit crisis
  The Bank of England is facing an unprecedented criminal investigation by the Serious Fraud Office over emergency lending measures it took at the height of the credit crisis to inject cash into financial markets.In late 2007 and early 2008, as the authorities struggled to prevent financial markets from freezing up, banks were invited to b
  
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