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• Robert Kennedy Jr joins campaign against vaccine legislation in New Jersey

  23-03-2015 23:11
  
  Groups seek to block bills that make vaccination exemption harder to obtainKennedy calls CDC a ‘sock puppet’ that helps pharmaceutical industry profit Calling the federal agency that makes recommendations on vaccines a “sock puppet” for that industry, Robert Kennedy Jr spoke out Monday in favor of allowing parents to choose whether to vaccinate their children. Kennedy, the nephew of former president John Kennedy and son of former US attorney general Robert Kennedy, joined groups that op
  
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• Minority report on Brusthom Ziamani’s severe sentence | Letters

  23-03-2015 21:17
  
  When did it become possible for UK citizens to be jailed for significant lengths of time not for what they have done, but for what they might do? I find it troubling that Brusthom Ziamani can be imprisoned for 22 years for apparently intending to go ahead with a planned crime (Teenager jailed for 22 years for plot to behead a soldier, 21 March). I have absolutely no sympathy for the systems of thought and reasoning that publicise, glamorise and encourage the type of violence that Ziamani is alle
  
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• Supreme court conflicted over Texas Confederate flag license plate case

  23-03-2015 19:54
  
  Justices reportedly uneasy about ruling in favor of Sons of Confederate Veterans, who cite free speech in call for state to allow image associated with slaveryThe US supreme court appeared conflicted on Monday while hearing arguments as to whether Texas infringed on its residents first amendment rights by rejecting specialty license plates decorated with a Confederate flag.
  According to reports from the courtroom, the justices appeared uneasy about a possible ruling in favor of a group called
  
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• Serial Podcast Killer's Appeal: Lawyer Lied - Yahoo News UK

  23-03-2015 19:47
  
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  Serial Podcast Killer's Appeal: Lawyer Lied
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  Adnan Syed, the convicted killer whose case was the subject of the hit podcast Serial, has argued in a court filing that he deserves a new trial because his original lawyer lied. "The errors by trial counsel were of such a fundamental nature that Syed ...
  
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• Serial: Adnan Syed's lawyers file first document to challenge murder conviction

  23-03-2015 19:46
  
  Brief followed doubts raised by Serial podcast, charging Syed’s former attorney with neglecting to ask for plea bargain and ignoring possible alibi in 2000 trialsLawyers representing Adnan Syed, the subject of the popular true-crime podcast Serial, have filed the first documents in a lengthy ongoing effort to overturn his conviction for murder.Syed is currently serving a life sentence for the 1999 murder of 18-year-old Hae Min Lee, his ex-girlfriend.
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• Gum control: how Lee Kuan Yew kept chewing gum off Singapore's streets

  23-03-2015 19:27
  
  You’ve probably heard it said that you can get arrested and flogged for chewing gum in Singapore. The truth, as usual, is more complicated than that – but there certainly are strict rules about mastication within the city limitsIt is the one thing you can expect foreigners to know about Singapore. Not that it’s a tiny island-city that experienced perhaps the greatest economic miracle of all time under the authoritarian stewardship of Lee Kuan Yew, who died on Monday. Not, any more, that th
  
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• New powers for relatives of missing people

  23-03-2015 18:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Ministry of Justice announces legislation that will allow families to take charge of property and financial assets.
  
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• 'It's a disgrace': civil liberties groups in frantic bid to stop Wisconsin voter ID law

  23-03-2015 18:05
  
  ACLU files emergency motion to stop controversial new law coming into effect, after supreme court turned away challenge on MondayCivil liberties campaigners filed an emergency motion on Monday to stop Wisconsin’s “disenfranchising” new voter identification requirements from going into effect, setting up an instant showdown after the US supreme court turned away an appeal to throw out Wisconsin’s controversial law that forces people already registered to vote to show photo ID.If the emerg
  
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• US supreme court wrestles with Texas Confederate flag license plate

  23-03-2015 17:46
  
  Sons of Confederate Veterans want right to use specialty vehicle plateCourt debates whether plate is ‘private speech’ or ‘government speech’US supreme court justices on Monday appeared conflicted over how to resolve a free speech dispute over whether the state of Texas was required to approve a specialty vehicle license plate that displays a Confederate battle flag. Some of the nine justices raised questions about whether the state had a sound legal reason under the US constitution’s f
  
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• Lawyers query exclusion from insurance fraud taskforce

  23-03-2015 15:46 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Whiplash claims in the spotlight as former justice secretary Jack Straw suggests referral fee ban is failing.
  
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• ‘Arrange family court open days’ – judiciary

  23-03-2015 15:24 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Working group publishes recommendations on modernisation reform in the Family Court and Family Division.
  
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• Why I'm sympathetic to plight of former News of the World reporter

  23-03-2015 15:19
  
  Several of Ryan Sabey’s stories about Prince Harry were in the public interestOn Friday, we were finally able to reveal that a former News of the World royal reporter, Ryan Sabey, had been convicted last month of aiding and abetting a soldier to commit misconduct in a public office.An Old Bailey jury found him guilty along with Paul Brunt, a former lance corporal in the Household Cavalry regiment, who tipped him off with stories about Prince Harry. Continue reading...
  
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• Tory government would review Shar'ia law

  23-03-2015 15:15 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Pledge among a raft of measures to combat extremism outlined by the home secretary.
  
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• Tory government would review Islamic law

  23-03-2015 15:15 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Pledge among a raft of measures to combat extremism outlined by the home secretary.
  
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• Politically correct judges on ‘expansionist binge’, says thinktank

  23-03-2015 15:15 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Barrister says critics of human rights laws should take aim at domestic judges rather than Strasbourg.
  
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• Banning me from prisons won’t silence the truth | Frances Crook

  23-03-2015 14:32
  
  The Ministry of Justice has stopped me visiting two privately run prisons, but we have to tell it like it is
  There are 14 privately run prisons in England and Wales and on Friday I received an email informing me that I am banned from visiting two of them, not by G4S who had invited me, but by the Ministry of Justice.My charity, the Howard League for Penal Reform, argues that making money out of punishing people is both reprehensible and immoral and it is on these grounds that we have opposed t
  
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• Ashya King’s parents say he is cancer-free after proton therapy

  23-03-2015 13:51
  
  Brett and Naghmeh King, who were jailed after taking their five-year-old son abroad for treatment, say he has made ‘miracle’ recoveryThe parents of five-year-old Ashya King, who were briefly jailed after taking him from a British hospital and fleeing abroad to seek treatment, have said he is now cancer-free. Brett and Naghmeh King, who prompted an international police hunt in August when they took Ashya from a Southampton hospital against doctors’ wishes, said their son has made a “mirac
  
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• Police shooting of mentally ill woman reaches US supreme court. Why did it happen at all?

  23-03-2015 12:50
  
  US’s highest court will consider whether police must take special precautions when arresting a person who is mentally ill, after shooting of Teresa SheehanIn August 2008, Teresa Sheehan, a mentally ill 56-year-old woman, was shot multiple times by San Francisco police officers. The police had been called to take her for an emergency psychiatric evaluation when she threatened a case worker, but the situation quickly escalated. After Sheehan threatened the officers with a knife, they shot her fi
  
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• Top lawyer could face jail after dodging £23000 of rail tickets over two-and-a ... - Express.co.uk

  23-03-2015 12:17
  
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  Top lawyer could face jail after dodging £23000 of rail tickets over two-and-a ...
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  AN INTERNATIONAL lawyer, who set up a charity helping African children affected by HIV, could face jail after dodging £23,000 in train fares. By Rob Virtue. PUBLISHED: 09:28, Mon, Mar 23, 2015. Dr Peter Barnett Central News. Dr Peter Barnett seen ...
  
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• Tennis player Bob Hewitt convicted of rape

  23-03-2015 12:12
  
  South African court finds former Grand Slam doubles champion guilty of attacks carried out on girls he was coaching in the 1980s and 1990sA South African judge has convicted former Grand Slam doubles tennis champion Bob Hewitt of rape and sexual assault decades after the alleged assaults.Judge Bert Bam said on Monday that he is satisfied that the two women who had accused the veteran tennis player of rape and a third woman who had accused him of sexual assault were telling the truth. Continue re
  
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• Florida no longer safe haven for war criminals as US prosecutors take action

  23-03-2015 12:00
  
  Accused human rights abuser Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, 77, moves closer to deportation in likely precedent for future cases in Sunshine StateAs one of an estimated 3.6 million senior citizens living in Florida, Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova found the perfect place to hide in plain sight. From shopping trips with his wife Lourdes in the upscale malls of Daytona Beach to gourmet meals at popular restaurants, he appeared to be just another septuagenerian enjoying the good life in the country’
  
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• Ombudsman raises complaint limit to 12 months

  23-03-2015 11:51 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Scheme rules to be changed to bring them into line with new EU directive on alternative dispute resolution. 
  
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• Ombudsman complaint limit rises from six to 12 months

  23-03-2015 11:51 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Scheme rules on cut-off to be aligned with new EU directive on alternative dispute resolution. 
  
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• Ashya King free of cancer after proton therapy, say parents

  23-03-2015 08:27
  
  Five-year-old who sparked international manhunt when his parents took him from an NHS hospital has recovered after treatment in Prague, they tell SunAshya King – the five-year-old boy who sparked an international manhuntwhen he was removed from hospital against doctors’ wishes – has been declared cancer-free, his parents have said.Ashya’s life was saved because he was given treatment not available for him on the NHS from their home in Southampton, his family told the Sun, hailing his “
  
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• Lawyer reinstated as Ukip candidate - Belfast Telegraph

  23-03-2015 01:31
  
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  Lawyer reinstated as Ukip candidate
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  Ukip has lifted the suspension imposed on one of its parliamentary candidates, following an internal investigation into allegations of an incident at his workplace. Also in this Section. [TICON-A VIDEO] Ashya King 'cured' of cancer after family flees ...
  
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• What the SFO is now doing right

  23-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  David Green has revitalised the Serious Fraud Office but it remains under pressure to deliver convictions.
  
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• Supreme Court upholds benefit cap

  23-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The appellants had argued that the £500 a week family cap breached Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
  
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• Squeezing out claims

  23-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Access to justice is becoming a qualified right which is obliged to be set against the contents of the public purse.
  
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• Solicitor devastated by 100k intervention

  23-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Andrew Williams was suspected of impropriety due to an association with another solicitor who was under SRA investigation.
  
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• Revisiting divorce settlements

  23-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The case of Stephen and Ellen Debruin reopens the argument about whether judges’ wide discretion ends with fair results.
  
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• Reaching for the Skype

  23-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  A City firm has said it hopes to expand an innovative pro bono scheme which connects staff to clients via Skype.
  
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• Property dispute service saves clients court fees

  23-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Firm responds swiftly to civil court fee increases with the creation of a new out-of-court service.
  
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• New chief for CCBE

  23-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Philip Buisseret is the new secretary-general of the Council of Bars and Law societies of Europe.
  
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• Manifesto for legal aid

  23-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The Legal Aid Practitioners Group has called on the next government to create an independent organisation to review rates of pay for legal aid cases.
  
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• Legal Aid Agency sets itself digital deadline

  23-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  LAA claims nearly two-thirds of transactions at the agency are already completed and processed digitally.
  
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• Law university offers foundation course

  23-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  University of Law establishes a one-year foundation programme for international students wishing to progress to undergraduate study.
  
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• Law Society appoints committee chairs

  23-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The Law Society has appointed three new committee chairs. 
  
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• How to: sack a client

  23-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  A guide to ceasing to act and how to avoid any reputational damage.
  
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• Firms could shut Russia offices as sanctions bite

  23-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  International firms face numerous challenges arising from EU/US response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
  
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• Ex-CCBE chief raps client money proposal

  23-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  LSB ‘imprisoned’ by the Legal Services Act 2007 in seeking to strip powers from professions deemed to have been ‘naughty’, says Jonathan Goldsmith.
  
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• Digital support for lawyers

  23-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  There can be no room for complacency when it comes to digital evolution.
  
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