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• Unions must be able to fight for workers – even if it means breaking bad laws | Len McCluskey

  19-03-2015 21:31
  
  People have intrinsic rights that democratically elected legislatures sometimes violate. The right of working people to combine, to organise, is one of themUnite’s rule book sounds just the sort of dusty tome to give employment lawyers headaches. Last week our governing body, Unite’s executive, unanimously agreed to make it shorter. It recommended the deletion from our rules of six little words that have governed our union’s actions: “so far as may be lawful”. So far, so mundane, you w
  
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• No need to recycle old myths about judges over porn claims | Letters

  19-03-2015 20:53
  
  It might have been helpful if Zoe Williams (Porn judges have set a new benchmark, 18 March) had spoken to some real-life judges instead of recycling tired old accusations about them. “Judges are notorious for ... not knowing who the Beatles are...” she writes. A good few years ago the legal writer Marcel Berlins offered a bottle of champagne to anyone who could produce an authentic source for this allegation. Nobody ever did.Williams seems to think that the judiciary appoints its own members
  
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• New York judge refuses to release Eric Garner grand jury documents

  19-03-2015 20:44
  
  Petition from civil rights groups had demanded the release of transcript including testimony from the police officer who put Garner in a chokehold before he diedA Staten Island judge on Thursday refused to release the grand jury testimony in the case of Eric Garner, a black man who died after being placed in a police chokehold by a white New York police officer. Related: Releasing Eric Garner grand jury papers 'would help restore public trust' Continue reading...
  
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• Service aims to reduce ‘costly’ IP disputes

  19-03-2015 20:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Baroness Neville-Rolfe unveils service giving businesses more options on how to decide what to do before undertaking legal proceedings.
  
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• New scheme to help avoid ‘costly’ design disputes

  19-03-2015 20:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Intellectual Property Office planning opinions service for disputes over design rights.
  
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• Tackle racism with humour – Warsi

  19-03-2015 17:37 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Former cabinet minister speaking at launch of Law Society’s Ethnic Minority Lawyers Division.
  
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• Regulator names firms in PII probe

  19-03-2015 16:17 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Two firms should have closed last year because they did not have a valid insurance policy.
  
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• ‘No evidence’ of risk from online divorce services

  19-03-2015 15:11 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Research by consumer group finds high satisfaction levels with both online and face-to-face services.
  
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• The UK's top 20 LGBT-friendly law firms are celebrated in London - Gay Star News

  19-03-2015 13:26
  
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  The UK's top 20 LGBT-friendly law firms are celebrated in London
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  The list follows the publication in January of Stonewall's annual Workplace Equality Index, which ranks organizations by their gay-friendly credentials in terms of diversity and inclusion polices and practice and the measures they may have taken to ...
  
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• Strict liability offence for offshore tax evasion

  19-03-2015 13:17 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Chief secretary to Treasury says ‘enablers’  will face same penalties as evaders - and be publicly named.
  
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• Texas prosecutor accused of misconduct for role in famous execution case

  19-03-2015 13:13
  
  State bar alleges that John Jackson ‘knew of the existence of evidence that tended to negate the guilt’ of Cameron Willingham, who was executed in 2004The state bar of Texas has filed a formal misconduct accusation against the prosecutor who secured a conviction in one of the country’s most dubious and disputed death penalty cases.Earlier this month the bar lodged a petition in Navarro County, near Dallas, alleging that John Jackson withheld evidence that pointed to the innocence of Camero
  
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• Homan Square: politicians push DoJ to investigate 'CIA or Gestapo tactics' at secret police site

  19-03-2015 12:57
  
  US congressman and Cook County commissioner hand-deliver letter to Eric Holder and demand an ‘immediate investigation’ into secretive police facilityA day after the Guardian exposed the first in a series of allegations of incommunicado detention and abuse at the Chicago police facility known as Homan Square, Cook County commissioner Richard Boykin sent a letter to the US Department of Justice. Citing what he likened to “CIA or Gestapo tactics”, Boykin joined officials and human-rights gr
  
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• Last minute adjournment in criminal legal aid appeal

  19-03-2015 11:16 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Court of Appeal set to deliver judgment on lord chancellor’s controversial crime duty tender process next week.
  
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• Criminal legal aid appeal - judgment tomorrow

  19-03-2015 11:16 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Court of Appeal to deliver judgment on crime duty tender process.
  
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• New international legal network expands into the UK - Lawyer Monthly Magazine

  19-03-2015 09:50
  New international legal network expands into the UK
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  Law firm Cripps, which has offices in Kent and London, has joined MarcAlliance as its England and Wales representative. Established in December 2013, MarcAlliance has a strong presence in the European Union as well as members further afield in ...
  
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• Litigation funder expects windfall from £136m 'pre-Jackson bulge'

  19-03-2015 08:11 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Chief executive of Burford Capital says UK lawyers are not grasping opportunities.
  
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• Ben Cohen's mother-in-law set to stand trial over harassment allegations - Express.co.uk

  19-03-2015 06:59
  
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  Ben Cohen's mother-in-law set to stand trial over harassment allegations
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  THE mother-in-law of Ben Cohen is to stand trial accused of harassing the rugby ace during his high-profile split from his wife. By David Pilditch. PUBLISHED: 00:01, Thu, Mar 19, 2015. Felicity Bassouls DAMIEN MCFADDEN. Felicity Bassouls, 67, is ...
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• The Romans in Britain obscenity trial dropped: from the archive, 19 March 1982

  19-03-2015 06:30
  
  Mary Whitehouse, who brought a private prosecution against the play’s director, felt that it was quite unnecessary for her to see the play to appreciate its insidious qualityThe hours of legal submission and argument which took place while the jury were out of court in the Romans in Britain court case marked the first phase of an attempt to save the theatre from a new and stringent form of censorship.Lord Hutchinson QC, who appeared as a junior to Gerald Gardiner the former Lord Chancellor in
  
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• Outgoing NSA lawyer helped preserve controversial programs - Yahoo News UK

  19-03-2015 05:57
  
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  Outgoing NSA lawyer helped preserve controversial programs
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  WASHINGTON (AP) — When news of secret National Security Agency surveillance programs began breaking in June 2013, even government insiders had questions. Often, Raj De was the man with the answers. The Harvard-trained lawyer, who departed ...
  
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• Hockey v Fairfax: another strong headwind buffeting responsible journalism | Richard Ackland

  19-03-2015 01:49
  
  Are we returning to the boom days of libel tourism? Joe Hockey’s case against Fairfax should reopen the discussion of defamation law reformThere was Joe Hockey, confidently strutting his intergenerational stuff on Monday night’s Q&A.His defamation case was still on foot in the federal court, but did he act like a man whose reputation had been shredded? At least outwardly, it was the same confident, cocky, if not too brilliant, Joe. Fairfax’s story and associated commentary barely seem
  
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