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• No convictions over 500 black and Asian deaths in custody

  21-03-2015 21:07
  
  Research by Institute of Race Relations accuses state institutions of ongoing prejudice and ‘culpable lack of care’More than 500 black and ethnic minority individuals have died in suspicious circumstances while in state detention over the past 24 years, but not a single official has been successfully prosecuted, a report examining institutional racism has revealed.The report, by the Institute of Race Relations, concludes that too little has changed to prevent black and Asian people dying in
  
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• US must release photos of Abu Ghraib detainees, federal judge rules

  21-03-2015 14:28
  
  Ruling gives the government, which has fought the case for over a decade, two months to decide whether to appeal before the photos could be releasedThe US must release photographs showing abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, a federal judge has ruled in a long-running clash over letting the world see potentially disturbing images of how the military treated prisoners. US district judge Alvin Hellerstein’s ruling Friday gives the government, which has fought the case for over a decade, t
  
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• US lawyer argues chimps are people too - Yahoo News UK

  21-03-2015 14:20
  
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  US lawyer argues chimps are people too
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  Attorney Steven Wise is on a crusade to prove that, as a matter of law, chimps are people too. For that matter, so are dolphins, elephants, gorillas and orcas. Wise made his argument at the TED Conference that wrapped up in Vancouver, Canada on Friday.
  
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• The NSA's plan: improve cybersecurity by cyber-attacking everyone else | Trevor Timm

  21-03-2015 13:22
  
  The NSA’s plan to protect America by starting cyberwars is absurd. Their argument that they need more power to do it is moresoThe National Security Agency want to be able to hack more people, vacuum up even more of your internet records and have the keys to tech companies’ encryption – and, after 18 months of embarrassing inaction from Congress on surveillance reform, the NSA is now lobbying it for more powers, not less.NSA director Mike Rogers testified in front of a Senate committee this
  
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• On Libel And The Law, U.S. And U.K. Go Separate Ways - WLRN

  21-03-2015 12:58
  
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  On Libel And The Law, U.S. And U.K. Go Separate Ways
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  A statue of the scales of justice stands above the Old Bailey, the courthouse where many high-profile libel cases are tried, in London. The U.K. is a popular place for libel cases to be filed because of laws that make it difficult for journalists or ...en meer »
  
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• The counted: inside the search for the real number of police killings in the US

  21-03-2015 12:53
  
  State by state, town by town, cop by cop, a lack of transparency is halting police reform. But part two of a Guardian investigation reveals that a quiet revolution in crime data may be under way – and justice may be nextIf a police officer fatally shoots an unarmed citizen in the United States – and it was happening on average more than twice a day even before the killing of Michael Brown seven months ago in Ferguson, Missouri – most people find out about it not from law enforcement but fr
  
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• On Libel And The Law, U.S. And U.K. Go Separate Ways - WFAE

  21-03-2015 12:53
  
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  On Libel And The Law, U.S. And U.K. Go Separate Ways
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  A statue of the scales of justice stands above the Old Bailey, the courthouse where many high-profile libel cases are tried, in London. The U.K. is a popular place for libel cases to be filed because of laws that make it difficult for journalists or ...
  
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• What cohabiting couples can to do put their financial house in order

  21-03-2015 07:59
  
  Couples living together have few legal rights if they split up, but they can take steps to protect themselvesThere are more than six million cohabiting couples in the UK – twice the number 20 years ago – and half have no idea that they have no legal protections if they break up. But while campaigners have repeatedly called for cohabitees to be given increased legal protection, the government has failed to act, with family law judges also deeply split over the issue.If you are cohabiting, but
  
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• Firms stand to lose billions through fraud: bank chief

  21-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Banking sector joins insurers and regulators in expressing concerns about telephone con-artists targeting law firms.
  
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