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• Lawyer: Woman behind Silicon Valley suit sought big payout - Yahoo Finance UK

  24-03-2015 23:32
  
  Lawyer: Woman behind Silicon Valley suit sought big payout
  Yahoo Finance UK
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A lawyer for a prestigious Silicon Valley venture capital firm on trial for alleged sex bias says the woman suing the company complained about gender bias to get a big payout, not to aid women she said are facing workplace ...
  
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• Five Vital Questions on the Implications of UK Law on Social Media - JD Supra (press release)

  24-03-2015 23:20
  
  Five Vital Questions on the Implications of UK Law on Social Media
  JD Supra (press release)
  Chevy Kelly, a partner in the UK-based Social Media Leadership Forum, recently sat down with Socially Aware's own Sue McLean, a Social Media Leadership Forum member, to discuss the legal implications of UK companies' use of social media as part of ...
  
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• Why did Utah bring back the firing squad? How the US kills people in 2015

  24-03-2015 22:46
  
  Gas chamber, firing squad and the electric chair have all been up for consideration in the wake of a European-led boycott of lethal injection drugsOn Monday night, Utah’s governor signed into law a bill that makes Utah the only state in the union to allow the firing squad as a method of executing condemned inmates. One other state, Oklahoma, allows for death by firing squad but only if the lethal injection process is ruled unconstitutional by a court. Denno has studied the history of the firin
  
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• Only sanctions can change Israeli policy | Letters

  24-03-2015 21:26
  
  Just one day before the Israeli general election, Binyamin Netanyahu stood in an East Jerusalem settlement and said in a televised interview that he would never agree to a Palestinian state if re-elected and would not halt settlement construction (Report, 17 March). The next day, he and his party were re-elected to power with a decisive majority, giving a mandate to his pre-election commitments – commitments which fly in the face of any “peace process”, freedom and justice for Palestinians
  
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• Tesco class action lawsuit is a rather unclassy affair

  24-03-2015 21:05
  
  Support is being drummed up by US lawyers for a class action suit from Tesco shareholders. Here’s three reasons why it is nonsenseHands up, who wants to sue Tesco? If that sounds like fun, and if you were a Tesco shareholder last September, a US legal outfit called Scott + Scott wants to hear from you. It says the supermarket chain’s £263m over-statement of profits last year caused “a permanent destruction of value to shareholders”. It thinks compensation is due, lots of it. It’s
  
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• Human rights rebuke over legal aid reforms

  24-03-2015 18:38 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Parliamentary committee says next government must undo harm reforms have caused to children.
  
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• Boris Johnson: 'Sharia law in the UK is absolutely unacceptable' - Express.co.uk

  24-03-2015 18:08
  
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  Boris Johnson: 'Sharia law in the UK is absolutely unacceptable'
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  BORIS Johnson has branded Sharia Law in the UK as "absolutely unacceptable", as he slammed Church of England clerics who say the Islamic legal code should be incorporated into British law. By Rebecca Perring Rebecca Perring. PUBLISHED: 16:35 ...
  Boris Johnson: Sharia law is completely unacceptable in the UKmirror.co.uk
  Sharia law is completely unacceptable in the UKThe Standard Di
  
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• Uzbekistan's first daughter accused of pocketing $1bn in phone deals

  24-03-2015 16:44
  
  Investigation claims Gulnara Karimova took bribes in return for access to lucrative telecommunications market. EurasiaNet.org reportsGulnara Karimova, the estranged daughter of Uzbekistan’s strongman leader Islam Karimov, is facing fresh allegations of corruption after an investigation accused her of accepting more than $1bn from telecoms companies wanting a slice of the lucrative mobile phone industry. Related: Gulnara Karimova speaks out over infighting in Uzbekistan's first family Related:
  
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• Pioneering ABS council names new legal chief

  24-03-2015 16:27 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Buckinghamshire and London boroughs of Harrow and Barnet granted alternative business structure licences last year.
  
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• A loophole in the slavery bill could allow companies to hide supply chain abuses

  24-03-2015 15:57
  
  The modern slavery bill now in parliament must ensure big business respects human rights in providing its goods and services worldwide, not just in the UK As a barrister who has been working at the highest levels on the global issues of slavery and trafficking for many years, I feel there is an urgent need to hold our corporations to account when they have subjected workers to enslavement either in the UK or overseas.At the moment, the UK parliament is discussing a modern slavery bill, which the
  
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• CMC reveals two-thirds of claims enquiries are shelved

  24-03-2015 15:18 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Accounts also show National Accident Helpline’s profit before tax fell from £14.7m in 2013 to £12.1m last year.
  
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• Should it be illegal to pay for sex? Panel verdict

  24-03-2015 15:01
  
  As Laura Lee challenges a new sex work law in Northern Ireland, she joins a panel of sex workers and writers to discuss the move Continue reading...
  
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• MoJ brushes off concerns over fee-paid judges’ pensions

  24-03-2015 14:48 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Ministry of Justice says it is committed to ensuring 'no less favourable treatment' for fee-paid judges. 
  
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• 'Papers to pee': Texas, Kentucky and Florida consider anti-transgender bills

  24-03-2015 14:30
  
  In three US states, lawmakers are attempting to pass bills that would result in fees or arrests for transgender people who use ‘wrong’ bathroom Mel Gonzales is an 18-year-old high school senior from Sugar Land, Texas. His smiling face might have flashed across your TV or computer screen back in the fall, when he was crowned homecoming king, the first transgender student at his high school to win that title. Some will say it’s a pity win, but he laughs it off and shrugs. His win is a sign o
  
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• Too little progress on stop and search, says police watchdog

  24-03-2015 14:00
  
  Many officers lack understanding of impact on lives of young black people, says Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of ConstabularyPolice forces have made too little progress on improving their use of stop and search powers, with too many officers lacking any understanding of their impact on the lives of young black people, an official watchdog has said.Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary said the findings of its report on progress since 2012 were disappointing as the wrong approach to stop an
  
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• Texas drivers can show Lone Stars and Longhorns – but not the Confederate flag

  24-03-2015 13:52
  
  Supreme court hears case brought by Sons of Confederate Veterans, who say they’re being denied their constitutional right to free speech by the Texas DMVCars in Texas can sport a license plate showing support for the Dallas Cowboys, the Houston Rodeo or Big Bend national park. Drivers can buy an anti-abortion “Choose Life” plate, a “Don’t Tread on Me” revolutionary war plate, a “Fight Terrorism” plate and even one with a picture of a can of Dr Pepper.But none of the 400-odd speci
  
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• Inconsistencies in Jackie's story do not mean that she wasn't raped at UVA | Jessica Valenti

  24-03-2015 13:52
  
  The Charlottesville police admitted that they don’t know precisely what happened to Jackie. They just can’t corroborate the Rolling Stone story“No evidence” of a rape does not mean that a rape didn’t happen. But try telling that to any one of a number of media outlets who, when the Charlottesville Police Department released their findings on “Jackie” (the University of Virginia student whose alleged rape was at the center of a widely-disputed Rolling Stone article) essentially indi
  
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• Conveyancing portal Veyo reports registration surge

  24-03-2015 13:52 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Almost half of conveyancing practices have signed up to the online system.
  
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• Boris Johnson: Sharia law is completely unacceptable in the UK - mirror.co.uk

  24-03-2015 13:11
  
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  Boris Johnson: Sharia law is completely unacceptable in the UK
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  London Mayor Boris Johnson branded Sharia Law in the UK as “absolutely unacceptable” today, as he took a swipe at clerics from the Church of England for supporting the Muslim legal code. Speaking on LBC radio this morning during his Ask Boris call-in ...
  Boris Johnson: 'Sharia law in the UK is absolutely unacceptable'Express.co.uk
  Sharia law is completely unacceptable in the UKThe Standard
  
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• Another black teen killed by Cleveland police as mother asks: 'Why? What happened?'

  24-03-2015 13:07
  
  Last week, 18-year-old Brandon Jones was shot dead by a police force found by the government to be ‘chaotic and excessive’. Now his family want answersWhen Brandon Jones was home on Cleveland’s East Side with his mother, Tonya Brown, he would check in on her to make sure she had everything she needed. Jones was the middle child of eight kids and worked hard to make sure the people around him were happy and taken care of.So on those days when Jones was home, the days before a police officer
  
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• Bar regulator seeks QC re-accreditation scheme

  24-03-2015 13:05 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  BSB suggests Queen’s Counsel Appointments body best placed to run quality assurance scheme.
  
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• IRA fugitives granted 'possibly unlawful' amnesty linked to 1980s atrocities

  24-03-2015 11:00
  
  MPs question legality of letters of assurance given almost 100 ‘on the runs’ including six linked to 1983 Harrods bomb and 1987 Enniskillen massacreSix IRA fugitives connected to two of the most notorious atrocities of the Northern Ireland Troubles were among those given “get-out-of-jail cards” under a controversial scheme that MPs have described as possibly unlawful.The six IRA “on the runs” are suspects in the 1983 Harrods bomb that killed six people outside the London department s
  
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• Facebook data privacy case to be heard before European Union court

  24-03-2015 10:51
  
  Maximilian Schrems battling existing EU laws, which allow companies to transfer informaton to US intelligence agencies
  A Facebook user is taking his privacy campaign to the European Union’s highest court to prevent US intelligence agencies gaining access to his personal data.The case brought by Maximilian Schrems against Ireland’s Data Protection Commission may eventually shape international regulations over access to, and ownership of, online information.
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• Employers named and shamed over failure to pay minimum wage

  24-03-2015 08:01
  
  Almost 50 firms included on latest list but campaigners call for better-equipped local authorities to tackle rogue employersThe government has named almost 50 employers for failing to pay their workers the national minimum wage, including childcare nurseries, restaurants and a 99p store.The 48 employers, who owed £162,000 in arrears, were in sectors ranging from fashion and publishing, to health and fitness and retail, with penalties totalling more than £67,000. Continue reading...
  
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• Councils face £100m bill for surge in safeguards for vulnerable people

  24-03-2015 08:00
  
  Local authorities say a nine-fold increase in demand for deprivation of liberty assessments triggered by a court ruling is paralysing services – an unintended consequence of worthy legislation
  Councils overwhelmed by a “tsunami” of requests to protect the rights of tens of thousands of vulnerable people say the government must foot the £100m extra costs, warning that a failure to do so could put many people at risk. I am not sure we have seen the full extent of the need. The numbers
  
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• CDC: 11M fewer uninsured since passage of Obama's law - Yahoo News UK

  24-03-2015 05:21
  
  CDC: 11M fewer uninsured since passage of Obama's law
  Yahoo News UK
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of uninsured U.S. residents fell by more than 11 million since President Barack Obama signed the health care overhaul five years ago, according to a pair of reports Tuesday from the federal Centers for Disease Control and ...
  
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