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• The Guardian view on the assault on human rights law: objection sustained | Editorial

  09-03-2015 21:05
  
  The government’s improper campaign against one solicitor follows years of disdain for access to justiceBack in January 1989, and following a briefing by the RUC, the then home office minister Douglas Hogg told the Commons that some of Northern Ireland’s solicitors were “unduly sympathetic” to the IRA. Later that day, the SDLP’s Seamus Mallon issued a warning: “I have no doubt that there are lawyers walking the streets or driving on the roads of the north of Ireland who have become ta
  
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• Swedish frustration with Saudis over speech may jeopardise arms agreement

  09-03-2015 19:04
  
  Foreign minister Margot Wallström says Saudi Arabia prevented her talking to the Arab League, as Swedish parties debate whether to renew military memorandumThe tension between Sweden’s feminist face and its desire to maintain lucrative weapons contracts with Saudi Arabia broke into the open on Monday, when the Swedish foreign minister accused Riyadh of blocking her speech on human rights at the Arab League.
  Margot Wallström had been invited as guest of honour to the Arab ministers’ m
  
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• Fmr. police chief blasts 'anti-Muslim' strategy - Press TV

  09-03-2015 18:15
  
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  Fmr. police chief blasts 'anti-Muslim' strategy
  Press TV
  A former British police chief has criticized the government's so-called Prevent strategy as a “toxic brand” for Muslims. Dal Babu, who retired as a chief superintendent with the Metropolitan Police in 2013, told the state-run BBC that most Muslims are ...
  
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• French MPs to debate 'deep sleep' bill easing end for patients near death

  09-03-2015 17:50
  
  Legislation would give patients ‘with hours or days to live’ more control over their treatment but opponents say it amounts to euthanasia
  France’s parliament is to debate a bill allowing patients on the brink of death to stop treatment and enter a “deep sleep” until they die, a move some critics say amounts to euthanasia in disguise. If passed, the legislation would give dying patients in the secular but traditionally Catholic country more power over their own treatment. It would al
  
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• Australian senior surgeon attacked for remarks on sexual harassment

  09-03-2015 17:50
  
  Trainee woman doctors safer to give in to male superiors’ demands rather than risk careers by complaining, says Gabrielle McMullin, who insists she used ironyAn Australian senior surgeon who prompted vehement criticism after she suggested trainee women doctors should consider acquiescing to sexual demands by male superiors rather than making a career-damaging complaint has insisted she stands by her comments.Gabrielle McMullin, a Sydney-based vascular surgeon, was speaking to ABC radio on Frid
  
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• SRA announcement 'unsettles' junior lawyers

  09-03-2015 17:49 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulator to withdraw from voluntary code on good practice for trainee recruitment from end of March 2015.
  
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• Default judgments soar as defences plummet

  09-03-2015 17:38 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Number of judgments in civil courts rises by a quarter.
  
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• German professor rebuked for rejecting intern over 'India's rape problem'

  09-03-2015 15:56
  
  German ambassador to Delhi writes open letter criticising Leipzig University academic for excluding male Indian applicants over sexual violence in country
  Germany’s ambassador to India has sent a scathing letter to a professor at Leipzig University who refused to give an Indian student an internship, citing India’s “rape problem”.Ambassador Michael Steiner said he “strongly objected” to the reasoning of Prof Annette Beck-Sickinger, chair of biochemistry at the university, writing:
  
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• Jude Law 'in talks to play US pope in new TV series' - Catholic Herald Online

  09-03-2015 14:04
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  Jude Law 'in talks to play US pope in new TV series'
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  Jude Law is in negotiations to play a fictional pope in a TV series about the first Italian-American pontiff in history, according to unconfirmed reports. According to reports in the Italian media, Law is in talks to play the lead in The Young Pope ...
  Jude Law 'to play The Pope'Yahoo News UK
  
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• UK to introduce airline law to stop Britons joining Islamic State - Irish Times

  09-03-2015 13:35
  
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  UK to introduce airline law to stop Britons joining Islamic State
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  Britain will introduce new laws on Tuesday to try to stop airlines carrying passengers who may be travelling to join Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, a junior minister said on Sunday. Security services estimate some 600 Britons have gone to ...
  UK set for new law to stop children flying to join ISITV News
  
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• Latvia complains to UK parliament over forced adoptions

  09-03-2015 13:18
  
  Letter to speaker centres on case of six-year-old in London removed from her Latvian mother after claims of neglect and says that social services breached international lawLatvia’s parliament has formally complained to the House of Commons that children of Latvian descent are being illegally and forcibly adopted by British families.
  The extraordinary intervention by foreign MPs in the way social services take children into care comes as the Baltic state has been granted permission to give ev
  
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• WordPress in court victory over blogger censored by 'Straight Pride UK'

  09-03-2015 11:36
  
  Oliver Hotham, whose blog was taken down after a DMCA notice was served, has been awarded $1,000 in damagesAfter a two-year legal battle, journalist Oliver Hotham and Automattic, owners of blogging service Wordpress.com, have emerged victorious against an attempt to use an American copyright law to shut down criticism of a short-lived pressure group call “Straight Pride UK”.The win, in a Californian district court, sets a rare precedent against attempts to use the the Digital Millennium Copy
  
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• UK charity backs tobacco packaging law - The Daily Telegraph

  09-03-2015 01:41
  UK charity backs tobacco packaging law
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  CLAIMS that the tobacco industry will be able to sue the British government if it passes a law on Australian-style plain packaging are "ludicrous and unjustified", an anti-smoking charity says. ACTION on Smoking and Health says the legislation, which ...
  
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• UK charity backs tobacco packaging law - The Australian (blog)

  09-03-2015 01:39
  UK charity backs tobacco packaging law
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  CLAIMS that the tobacco industry will be able to sue the British government if it passes a law on Australian-style plain packaging are "ludicrous and unjustified", an anti-smoking charity says. ACTION on Smoking and Health says the legislation, which ...
  
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• Three new Law Society Excellence awards

  09-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Three new categories – of human rights, technology and private client practice – are included in the lineup for the Law Society Excellence Awards 2015.
  
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• The Wednesbury principle

  09-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Council land decision ‘flawed’.
  
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• SRA warns of ‘Friday afternoon fraud’ risk

  09-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulator continues to get regular reports of scammers stealing from firms despite repeated warnings not to disclose sensitive details.
  
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• SDT: Stuart Keith Holman

  09-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be suspended from practice as a solicitor for an indefinite period to commence on 14 January 2015.
  
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• SDT: Nazakat Ali

  09-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll.
  
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• Rush to file claims as civil court levy kicks in

  09-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Fee changes were brought into force just seven weeks after they were announced, despite widespread opposition.
  
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• Regulator probes firm representing Iraqis

  09-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  British soldiers were exonerated last year by the Al-Sweady inquiry after claims they were involved in murder and torture.
  
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• Record activity at EU court

  09-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The Court of Justice of the European Union heard 719 cases in 2014, the busiest year in the court’s history.
  
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• Mckenzie students

  09-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Huddersfield law students will act as McKenzie friends to people denied legal aid for county court appearances.
  
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• Judicial mentoring unveiled to boost diversity

  09-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Aims to address the under-representation of women and minority ethnic lawyers in the judiciary.
  
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• Inspector calls for CPS

  09-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Barrister Kevin McGinty, deputy legal secretary of the Attorney General’s Office, has been named preferred candidate for chief inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service.
  
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• How to: make fewer mistakes

  09-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  A City thought-leader believes he can help clever lawyers avoid doing silly things.
  
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• Ex-Freshfields lawyers start litigation boutique

  09-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Dispute resolution lawyers from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Russian office have left the magic circle firm to open litigation boutique Kulkov, Kolotilov & Partners.
  
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• Corporate human rights crime bid

  09-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Corporations as well as people and states should be liable for prosecution in the International Criminal Court for abusing human rights, study recommends. 
  
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• Companies warned of compliance risks

  09-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  More than half of CCOs do not feel their compliance department is sufficiently integrated into corporate decision-making and strategy.
  
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• Buckland hails class act

  09-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Solicitor general visited a west London school to learn about a scheme to give young people a better understanding of the law.
  
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