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• UK: the territorial scope of UK employment law - Lexology (registration)

  20-03-2015 17:47
  UK: the territorial scope of UK employment law
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  The test to determine whether an expatriate employee falls within the territorial scope of UK employment law has been in the spotlight recently. The established general test is whether an expatriate employee has a sufficiently strong connection with ...
  
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• Tunis attack victim was retired solicitor

  20-03-2015 17:41 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Tributes paid to Sally Adey, retired solicitor and wife of Shakespeares partner.
  
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• Don't get caught out: changes in UK's drug-driving law - The Upcoming

  20-03-2015 16:57
  
  The Upcoming
  Don't get caught out: changes in UK's drug-driving law
  The Upcoming
  The UK made a number of alterations to the drug-driving law on 2nd March of this year. These changes have come as quite a surprise for many motorists who are now required to be more careful out on the roads. If you're caught driving under the influence ...
  
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• 'Kidnapped' victims of Chicago police site detail ordeal in Homan Square suit

  20-03-2015 16:16
  
  Three men accuse police of ‘common plan to illegally detain and physically abuse’, and sue the city of Chicago for violating their fourth amendment rightsChicago police officers followed and yelled “that they were watching” two men whom they “essentially kidnapped” at Homan Square, according to the first federal civil-rights lawsuit to stem from a cascade of allegations about the secretive compound.In a suit filed against the city of Chicago late on Thursday night, John Vergara and J
  
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• 'Kidnapped' victims of Chicago police detail ordeal in federal civil-rights suit

  20-03-2015 16:16
  
  Three men accuse police of ‘common plan to illegally detain and physically abuse’, and sue the city of Chicago over detention at Homan SquareChicago police officers followed and yelled “that they were watching” two men whom they “essentially kidnapped” at Homan Square, according to the first federal civil-rights lawsuit to stem from a cascade of allegations about the secretive compound.In a suit filed against the city of Chicago late on Thursday night, John Vergara and Jose Garcia ch
  
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• Homan Square: the lawsuit against the city of Chicago

  20-03-2015 16:16
  
  Read the lawsuit filed by three plaintiffs that says Chicago police ‘knowingly and intentionally schemed and worked together in a common plan to falsely arrest, illegally detain, and physically abuse’ Continue reading...
  
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• New legal aid powers over criminals’ assets

  20-03-2015 15:51 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Ministry of Justice lays statutory instrument that will enable Legal Aid Agency to recover costs from convicted criminals.
  
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• Government promises response on pre-charge bail

  20-03-2015 15:08 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Home affairs select committee calls for time limits and anonymity for sex-case suspects.
  
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• The reality of Chris Grayling’s probation revolution – ‘£46 goes nowhere’

  20-03-2015 14:46
  
  For a released inmate, the first £10 goes on travel. Then what? As probation is privatised and rehabilitation projects lose funding, Monica Ali gets a glimpse of the test facing one woman as she walks through the prison gatesOn a bitterly cold February Friday in north London, the enormous wooden gate to Holloway prison rolls open and disgorges a small, lone woman. She is carries a standard-issue black nylon holdall. “Tanya?” calls Hayley, a charity worker who is waiting for her new client.
  
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• Jury were right to clear Sun quartet - they shouldn't have been on trial

  20-03-2015 14:24
  
  This confirms, yet again, the it was wrong for the CPS to have charged themYet another jury has cleared more Sun journalists who were charged with offences related to the paying of public officials.It is further confirmation that the police and the Crown Prosecution Service should not have brought such charges against people who were engaged in a practice that, for many years, was considered to be entirely normal journalistic activity at papers across Fleet Street. Continue reading...
  
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• Supreme court to rule on Prince Charles letters

  20-03-2015 12:46
  
  Judgment due on whether government illegally blocked publication of letters to ministers in which prince sought to change policies
  The supreme court’s judgment on whether the government unlawfully blocked the publication of a series of secret letters written by Prince Charles is due to be made public on Thursday next week, court officials have announced. For 10 years, the government, with the support of Charles, has been resisting a freedom of information request by the Guardian to see the let
  
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• Law Society reacts to cuts with unbundling guidance

  20-03-2015 12:43 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Chancery Lane guidance suggests unbundled services may be appropriate for a number of practice areas but warns of risks. 
  
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• Law Society backs unbundling of more civil claims

  20-03-2015 12:43 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Chancery Lane guidance suggests unbundled services may be appropriate for a number of practice areas but warns of risks. 
  
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• Labour repeats pledge to repeal JR reforms

  20-03-2015 11:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lord Bach reiterates message on JR changes – but is less optimistic for restoring social welfare law.
  
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• SpaceX frees more than a hundred photos into public domain

  20-03-2015 08:00
  
  Elon Musk’s spaceflight firm has licensed a tranche of more than 100 photos for reuse, after calls for it to adopt public domain licensingElon Musk’s private spaceflight company SpaceX has conceded to pressure to free its images, and released a batch of more than 100 photos under the “copyleft” Creative Commons license.As the first private spaceflight firm to win a contract to resupply the International Space Station, SpaceX is a trailblazer for capitalism in space. While national spacef
  
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• SpaceX launches images into public domain

  20-03-2015 08:00
  
  Elon Musk’s spaceflight firm has licensed a tranche of more than 100 photographs for reuse following calls to adopt public domain licensingElon Musk’s private spaceflight company SpaceX has conceded to pressure to free its images, and released a batch of more than 100 photos under the “copyleft” Creative Commons license.As the first private spaceflight firm to win a contract to resupply the International Space Station, SpaceX is a trailblazer for capitalism in space. While national space
  
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• UK rights watchdog attacks Tory policy to quit European human rights court

  20-03-2015 01:01
  
  Letter to parliamentary committee stresses: ‘We must safeguard our reputation for fairness and our moral authority when confronting human rights abuses’
  The government’s human rights watchdog has attacked Conservative party proposals to repeal the Human Rights Act and withdraw from the European court of human rights in Strasbourg.In an open letter to a parliamentary committee, the Equality and Human Rights Commission expresses concern about potentially “regressive” steps and the possib
  
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