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• Illinois justices press state's lawyer on pension overhaul - Yahoo News UK

  11-03-2015 22:08
  
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  Illinois justices press state's lawyer on pension overhaul
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  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Supreme Court justices asked the state's lawyer to explain Wednesday how the government can seek extraordinary power to reduce public pension benefits in the face of a fiscal crisis when the government itself is ...
  
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• Questions of perspective on India’s Daughter | Letters

  11-03-2015 20:40
  
  Jayati Ghosh (Since the Delhi rape things have got worse, 7 March) mars an otherwise fine article on the banning of the documentary India’s Daughter by repeating a criticism that appears to take issue with the film’s provenance at the cost of what it actually says, reveals and supports. Far from displaying signs of a “white saviour” mentality, the narrative dispenses with the usual authorial voice and allows a powerful and moving story to emerge directly from the words of those most clos
  
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• How Chicago police used pot to disappear young people at Homan Square

  11-03-2015 20:36
  
  Marc Freeman and ‘Stephanie’, detained for hours inside the so-called ‘black site’ to confess and implicate others, emerged to see legal pot in Illinois – but not with the cash they had beforeThe story of Marc Freeman’s disappearance inside Chicago’s Homan Square police warehouse on a marijuana offense last fall exists between the lines of his arrest report – as his time in custody was not logged on the books until he surfaced at a police station seven hours after his arrest.At 3
  
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• Christopher Columbus letter must not leave Spain – court stymies Duke of Alba

  11-03-2015 20:27
  
  Aristocratic Alba dynasty has fought for right to auction 1498 document abroad to fund its huge collections, only for high court to rule it cannot leave SpainTheir hope was to walk way with millions after handing over a letter penned by Christopher Columbus in 1498 to the highest bidder at a London auction.
  But the family of the Duchess of Alba – the eccentric aristocrat who was once one of Spain’s best-known public figures, who died last November – have had their hopes stymied by a Madr
  
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• UK government passes 'plain packaging' law for cigarettes - MarketWatch

  11-03-2015 19:00
  
  UK government passes 'plain packaging' law for cigarettes
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  NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The U.K. government on Wednesday passed a law that will ban branding on cigarette packs starting in 2016, Dow Jones reported. The "plain packaging" law won 367 votes in favor in the House of Commons to 113 against.
  
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• Ireland’s ecstasy loophole isn’t the first accidental legislation to be passed

  11-03-2015 18:51
  
  Ireland briefly made the possession of ecstasy legal this week. But there are other laws that have slipped on to the books by mistakeFor one day only this week, Ireland legalised the possession of ecstasy. It wasn’t a bid by the Irish Tourist Board to snatch Vegas’s crown and re-brand the emerald isle as “The Party Capital of the World”, but rather a loophole mistake: a redrafting of the 1977 Misuse of Drugs Act was argued to be unconstitutional because both houses of the Irish parliamen
  
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• Judgment reserved in criminal legal aid appeal

  11-03-2015 18:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Master of the rolls says court will try to deliver judgment on crime duty tender process as quickly as possible.
  
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• Utah lawmakers vote to bring back execution by firing squad

  11-03-2015 17:49
  
  State would shoot prisoners if lethal injection drugs were unavailable under provisions that are yet to be signed into law by the governorUtah lawmakers voted on Tuesday to resurrect the firing squad as an alternative method of executing condemned inmates in the event the state runs out of lethal injection drugs.
  Faced with a nationwide scarcity ofexecution drugs, the Utah senate on Tuesday approved legislation that would allow the state to resume using the firing squad more than a decade afte
  
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• Tobacco firms to fight UK plain packaging law for cigarettes - Reuters

  11-03-2015 17:28
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  Tobacco firms to fight UK plain packaging law for cigarettes
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  LONDON, March 11 (Reuters) - Imperial Tobacco Group threatened legal action against the British government on Wednesday over its plan to push through a ban on branding on cigarette packs. UK lawmakers voted strongly in favour of the plain packaging ...
  Joy as MPs pass cigarette pack lawBelfast Telegraph
  Standardised Tobacco Packaging To Become UK Law From 2016 After Passing ...Huffington Post UK
  
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• Blurred Lines: the danger of confusing musical inspiration with appropriation | Bob Stanley

  11-03-2015 17:04
  
  If anyone has ever compared a new band to Saint Etienne, I’ve been flattered that we might be an influence. I’m not going to instruct my lawyers to sue
  I wonder if Pharrell Williams regrets admitting in court that he was channelling “that 70s feeling” when he wrote Blurred Lines. He must be wondering whether the estate of Curtis Mayfield will be next in line for a multimillion-pound payout – Williams’ Happy, another international No 1, was inspired by Mayfield’s distinctive style
  
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• Wrongly convicted Ohio man, 81, says death row was 'hell on earth'

  11-03-2015 16:59
  
  Dale Johnston goes before Ohio supreme court in latest attempt to win wrongful imprisonment lawsuit against the stateDale Johnston was sent to death row in 1984 for a double homicide he didn’t commit. He’s spent the years since his 1990 release trying to get back the life he lost.The Ohio supreme court heard arguments Wednesday in Johnston’s latest attempt to win a wrongful imprisonment suit against the state. Continue reading...
  
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• We are citizens, not mere physical masses of data for harvesting

  11-03-2015 16:04
  
  The deal we have struck with the information society over the extent to which our lives are shaped and our privacy invaded requires urgent renegotiationThere is something profoundly unsettling and unedifying at the heart of the contemporary information economy. Captivated by shiny devices, services and apps, manipulated by information merchants, and unprotected by barnacle-encrusted law and institutions, we are losing - or have lost - control.This is the message of American legal scholar, Julie
  
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• South-east authorities merge legal teams

  11-03-2015 15:18 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Latest local government tie-up will create 130-strong legal team.
  
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• The tragedy of Nigeria's child brides

  11-03-2015 14:58
  
  Ten years after underage marriage was made illegal, 39% of girls are married before age 15, and two remain on death row for killing much older husbands
  Maimuna Abdulmunini was just 13 when she was arrested for burning her 35-year-old husband to death.The legal process dragged out over five years. Finally in 2012, when she turned 18, Abdulmunini was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Today, despite a court ruling six months ago that the sentence is a violation of her rights, she is still
  
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• Nigeria: Child brides facing death sentences a decade after child marriage prohibited

  11-03-2015 14:58
  
  Ten years after underage marriage was prohibited, 39% of girls are married before age 15, and two remain on death row for killing much older husbands
  Maimuna Abdulmunini was just 13 when she was arrested for burning her 35-year-old husband to death.The legal process dragged out over five years. Finally in 2012, when she turned 18, Abdulmunini was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Today, despite a court ruling six months ago that the sentence is a violation of her rights, she is still o
  
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• Finally, divorced women who bring up the children have some legal value | Anne Perkins

  11-03-2015 13:33
  
  A supreme court ruling means Kathleen Wyatt can make a claim against her ex-husband, green energy entrepreneur Dale Vince, who made his fortune since they split – but will she get a penny?At last! The supreme court has just rocked the apple cart of unequal divorce. It has pronounced that being a parent is an obligation that lasts. Even if one parent is no longer around, for better or worse their fortunes are inextricably bound together. Particularly if those fortunes are for better.It has rule
  
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• The Blurred Lines verdict proves only one thing: you can't second-guess a jury

  11-03-2015 13:24
  
  For all the fears that the Gaye family’s victory will stop musicians using the mood of older records, the main consequence will be a desire to avoid going in front of capricious juriesIn a joint statement yesterday, Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams denounced a California jury’s verdict against them for copyright infringement, saying it established “a horrible precedent,” which is pretty much what you’d expect to hear from two guys who’d just been ordered to shell out nearly $7.4m.O
  
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• Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams' Blurred Lines infringed Marvin Gaye copyright, court rules – video

  11-03-2015 12:41
  
  Recording artists Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were found liable on Tuesday for copyright infringement in a lawsuit accusing them of plagiarizing the late soul singer Marvin Gaye in their hit single Blurred Lines. A US district court jury in Los Angeles found that parts of Gaye's 1977 hit Got to Give it Up were lifted by Thicke and Williams for their summer 2013 R&B chart-topper Continue reading...
  
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• Tycoon's ex-wife can claim - 23 years after divorce

  11-03-2015 12:37 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Supreme Court ruling indicates anyone without a completed financial order can claim against ex-spouse regardless of time.
  
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• Woman wins right to seek money from ex-husband 30 years after breakup

  11-03-2015 12:35
  
  Supreme court gives Kathleen Wyatt go-ahead to claim against Ecotricity boss Dale Vince, who became a multimillionaire after their divorceA woman whose marriage broke down more than 30 years ago has won the right to seek payments from her ex-husband, a one-time New Age traveller who became a multimillionaire businessman.Kathleen Wyatt has been granted permission by the supreme court to lodge a belated claim against Dale Vince, who founded and runs the green energy company Ecotricity. Continue re
  
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• Woman wins right to seek money from ex-husband 30 years after break-up

  11-03-2015 12:35
  
  Supreme court gives Kathleen Wyatt the go-ahead to claim against Ecotricity boss Dale Vince, who became a multimillionaire after their divorceA woman whose marriage broke down more than 30 years ago has won the right to seek payments from her ex-husband, a one-time New Age traveller who became a multimillionaire.The supreme court has granted Kathleen Wyatt permission to lodge a claim against Dale Vince, who runs the green energy company Ecotricity.
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• LSB sounds death knell for handling client money

  11-03-2015 11:02 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulators are looking at system in France, where lawyers are prevented from holding client money.
  
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• Where community rehabilitation ‘is harder than a short-term jail sentence’

  11-03-2015 11:00
  
  In a Manchester scheme, those convicted of car crimes and given intensive community orders are brought face to face with the consequencesA group of offenders on a community rehabilitation programme have been shown the reality of car-related crime by firefighters from Greater Manchester fire service.Eight offenders recently spent a day at Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service training centre where they took part in a simulated exercise to pull a passenger free from a mangled car after a seri
  
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• Mother 'can't afford appeal lawyer' - Belfast Telegraph

  11-03-2015 05:17
  
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  Mother 'can't afford appeal lawyer'
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  A woman says she wants to challenge a judge's ruling that she used "undue influence" on her mentally ill son but cannot afford to hire lawyers. Also in this Section. My Hillsborough knowledge was basic · NHS 'heading in wrong direction' · Bercow's ...
  
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• Mother 'can't afford appeal lawyer' - Yahoo News UK

  11-03-2015 04:13
  
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  Mother 'can't afford appeal lawyer'
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  A woman says she wants to challenge a judge's ruling that she used "undue influence" on her mentally ill son but cannot afford to hire lawyers. Mrs Justice Hogg last week declared a decision made by the man to refuse psychiatric drugs and ...
  
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• Utah passes firing squad bill

  11-03-2015 02:18
  
  State would shoot prisoners if lethal injection drugs were unavailable under provisions that are yet to be signed into law by the governorUtah has passed a bill that would make it the only US state to allow firing squads for carrying out a death sentence if there is a shortage of execution drugs.The 18-10 vote by Utah’s Senate on Tuesday comes as US states struggle to obtain lethal injection drugs amid a nationwide shortage. Continue reading...
  
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• Venture firm Kleiner's lawyer sharply questions ex-partner - Yahoo Finance UK

  11-03-2015 01:52
  
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  Venture firm Kleiner's lawyer sharply questions ex-partner
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  Ellen Pao walks to San Francisco Superior Court in San Francisco, California March 3, 2015. REUTERS/Robert … By Sarah McBride and Dan Levine. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A lawyer for venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers peppered former ...
  
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• Uninvestigated Northern Ireland killings 'tarnish UK's reputation' - The Guardian

  11-03-2015 01:01
  
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  Uninvestigated Northern Ireland killings 'tarnish UK's reputation'
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  Family of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane arrive for a media conference in London, 12 December 2012. Photograph: Andrew Winning/Reuters. Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent. @owenbowcott. Tuesday 10 March 2015 20.01 EDT Last ...
  
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• Uninvestigated Northern Ireland killings 'tarnish UK's reputation'

  11-03-2015 01:01
  
  Joint committee on human rights identifies prisoner voting rights and legacy of Troubles as weaknesses in government’s record
  The government’s failure to carry out adequate investigations into killings more than 20 years ago involving the security forces in Northern Ireland has been condemned by a parliamentary watchdog. In a report praising the UK for implementing most judgments from the European court of human rights in Strasbourg, the joint committee on human rights (JCHR) warns that dela
  
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