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• Lawyer: Mumia Abu-Jamal hospitalized for unknown reason - Yahoo News UK

  30-03-2015 23:58
  
  Lawyer: Mumia Abu-Jamal hospitalized for unknown reason
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  POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal has been hospitalized, but his lawyer says prison officials won't tell him why. Attorney Bret Grote (GROH'-tee) said Monday that his client is in the critical care unit of a Pennsylvania ...en meer »
  
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• Louisiana death row case confounds US supreme court over mental disability

  30-03-2015 23:05
  
  Justices seem confused by what they are to decide in case of death row inmate Kevan Brumfield – and Justice Scalia admits he will never read entire recordThe US supreme court heard arguments about the fate and mental condition of death row inmate Kevan Brumfield on Monday, in a case that asks the nine justices to decide whether a man deemed disabled by one court can be killed out of deference to the decision of another.But the justices struggled even to determine the facts of what happened in
  
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• Probation officers face redundancy in plan to replace them with machines

  30-03-2015 18:22
  
  Sodexo, UK’s largest operator of privatised probation services, is to use cash-machine style kiosks to enable offenders to report in without seeing an officerThe largest UK private probation operator plans to allow offenders to report in at ATM-style electronic kiosks as part of cost-cutting plans that will involve large-scale redundancies.Sodexo justice services, which runs six of the 21 newly privatised community rehabilitation companies (CRCs) in England and Wales, intends to introduce the
  
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• UK's new employment law enables Sikhs to wear turbans in all workplaces - SikhSiyasat.Net

  30-03-2015 18:15
  
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  UK's new employment law enables Sikhs to wear turbans in all workplaces
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  London, England: Earlier employment laws had exempted turban wearers from the requirement to wear a safety helmet on construction sites. But the exemption did not apply to less hazardous environments, such as factories and warehouses. According to the ...
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• ​'Human rights law should not apply to the battlefield' – UK think tank - RT

  30-03-2015 17:39
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  ​'Human rights law should not apply to the battlefield' – UK think tank
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  Soldiers from A company of Britain's 1st Battalion Black Watch take part in a patrol through the area of Ahmed Al Ahamadi near their base Camp Dogwood, 30 miles south west of Baghdad November 5, 2004. (Reuters/Maurice McDonald). Tags. Arms, Army ...en meer »
  
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• Climate change: at last a breakthrough to our catastrophic political impasse? | Julia Powles and Tessa Khan

  30-03-2015 17:34
  
  Expecting the Paris talks to succeed is a pious hope: but the Oslo principles, launched today, argue that governments are already in flagrant breach of their legal obligations to the planetToday a group of eminent jurists accuse governments and enterprises of being in clear and flagrant breach of their legal obligations on climate change – under human rights law, international law, environmental law, and tort law.Human ravaging of our planet and climate through relentless fossil fuel extractio
  
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• Islam Karimov re-elected Uzbekistan's president in predicted landslide

  30-03-2015 17:23
  
  Election criticised by western observers for irregularities and lack of competition as Karimov wins more than 90% of preliminary vote
  Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan’s authoritarian president since 1990, has won re-election in a predictable landslide victory that will put him in office for another five years.According to preliminary results announced on Monday by the central Asian state’s electoral commission, Karimov, 77, won 90.39% of the votes in Sunday’s election, which was roundly criticise
  
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• Public spaces are under attack – from a law that can ban anyone doing anything | Paula Cocozza

  30-03-2015 17:20
  
  What’s next to be outlawed under the absurd public spaces protection order? How about garnishes on sandwiches, or people knocking on your front door?How niche should a law be? I ask because the Manifesto Club, which campaigns against over-regulation, has published a list of activities that have been banned under public spaces protection orders (PSPO) since October last year. Some are so specific that you can almost guess at the addressee. Did you know, for instance, that in certain parts of Ca
  
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• You can’t exploit me: just like Stephen Hawking®, I’ve trademarked myself

  30-03-2015 16:53
  
  If it is good enough for the theoretical scientist or the author JK Rowling, it’s good enough for me, which is why I am now Stuart Heritage®I’ve never really seen myself as a person. People are weak. People are fallible. People lack a major edge in increasingly competitive markets. No, deep down I have always been a brand. A hard-as-nails, legally enforceable brand, zooming through the jetstream to deliver an individualised range of services to a well-informed clientele.And now I have
  
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• More can be done to protect human rights across Europe

  30-03-2015 15:42
  
  As Belgium chairs the Council of Europe, they decided, as the UK had done previously, to call a high-level meeting of justice ministersIt must have seemed a good idea at the time. A couple of years ago, when Belgium was making plans for its once-in-a-generation turn at running the 47-nation Council of Europe for six months, Britain’s achievements in that role must have been fresh in Belgians’ minds.In the spring of 2012, a few months before he lost his job as justice secretary, Ken Clarke pr
  
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• MPs say need for investor-dispute provisions not proven

  30-03-2015 15:09 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Committee bemoans lack of hard evidence on transatlantic trade deal. 
  
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• Cambodian child labour laws flouted with fake ID | Jamie Elliott

  30-03-2015 15:06
  
  Despite national legislation, poverty leads families to help children lie about their age to get a job, while factories turn a blind eye to underage workersLike most teenagers, Jorani, who says she is 14, has plenty of stamina. She has just spent the day making hundreds of shoes at the New Star Shoes Co factory in Sihanoukville, Cambodia.“I punch holes in about 300 shoes every day, and work eight hours a day, six days a week,” she says, in a barely audible voice. “But I don’t get too tir
  
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• Call for revival of Crown immunity for armed forces

  30-03-2015 15:04 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Judicial developments have paved way for spike in litigation against Ministry of Defence, free-market thinktank says.
  
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• Solicitor jailed for £60,000 fraud

  30-03-2015 13:08 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Court told Simon Griffiths had been a trusted professional until his ‘spectacular’ fall from grace.
  
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• Slater and Gordon managing director Andrew Grech. Source: News Limited - Herald Sun

  30-03-2015 13:04
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  Slater and Gordon managing director Andrew Grech. Source: News Limited
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  LAW firm Slater and Gordon is set to become the UK's biggest personal injury group after striking a billion-dollar takeover deal. The law firm, which in 2007 became the first legal group to list in Australia, has snapped up the professional and ...en meer »
  
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• Ministers should lose powers to choose watchdogs, say MPs

  30-03-2015 12:21
  
  Commons public accounts committee says prison, probation, police and border control inspectors’ independence is threatened by current systemMinisters should not be allowed to appoint the independent watchdogs who inspect prisons, probation, the police and border control, say MPs.The Commons public accounts committee made the call in the wake of the Ministry of Justice’s “shocking mishandling” of a major conflict of interest involving the chief inspector of probation, Paul McDowell, which
  
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• Quindell plans board clearout after agreeing sell-off

  30-03-2015 10:47
  
  Deal worth £637m made with Australian firm draws line under a year of turmoil at Hampshire-based insurance claims handlerQuindell, the troubled insurance claims handler, plans to clear out its board after agreeing to sell its professional services business to the Australian personal injury firm Slater & Gordon for £637m in cash.If approved by shareholders, the deal will draw a line under a year of turmoil at Quindell. The company grew quickly but a scathing analysis by a US short-sell
  
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• Slater and Gordon buys Quindell division for £637m

  30-03-2015 08:39 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Initial report into accounting policies finds Quindell at the ‘aggressive end of acceptable practice’.
  
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• Quindell admits 'aggressive' practice as £637m sale goes through

  30-03-2015 08:39 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Initial report into accounting policies finds Quindell at the ‘aggressive end of acceptable practice’.
  
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• 'Human rights law has no place on the battlefield' – Policy exchange report

  30-03-2015 07:00
  
  UK should withdraw from European convention on human rights during wartime, according to thinktank study likely to be welcomed by ConservativesBritain should withdraw from the European convention on human rights during wartime because troops cannot fight under the yoke of “judicial imperialism”, according to a centre-right thinktank.
  Granting enemy combatants the right to sue the government and requiring soldiers on the battlefield to operate to the same standard as police officers patrollin
  
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• Group criticises council bans law - Yahoo News UK

  30-03-2015 06:58
  
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  Group criticises council bans law
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  A new law which allows councils to ban activities in public spaces is leading to "bizarre new criminal offences", campaigners against heavy regulation have said - despite public approval for the measures. The Manifesto Club says the elderly, young ...en meer »
  
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• Town hall ABS pioneers eye closer working

  30-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Hugh Peart will divide his time between Buckinghamshire and HB Public Law.
  
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• Society renews calls for legal privilege protection

  30-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The Law Society has renewed its call for statutory protection for legal professional privilege.
  
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• SDT: Nnadozie Okpokiri

  30-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be suspended from practice as a solicitor for 12 months to commence on 8 December 2014.
  
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• SDT: Matthew Albert Timmis

  30-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should pay a fine of £10,000.
  
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• SDT: Kesakapillai Raveenderan

  30-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll.
  
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• SDT: Frances Louise Brough

  30-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll.
  
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• Sarah set for mid-April

  30-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Act requires judges to consider whether the person being sued was acting for the benefit of society.
  
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• Lloyd George’s five guineas

  30-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The Law Society’s then president and David Lloyd George are two of the names to appear on a 1919 document listing donors to the Solicitors’ War Memorial Fund.
  
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• Legal aid tenders: ‘hundreds’ of firms will go under

  30-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The MoJ reopened the tender process for duty provider contracts on Friday last week after the court dismissed an appeal by the Law Society and practitioner groups.
  
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• IBA joins Lee Kuan Yew tributes

  30-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The International Bar Association has paid tribute to Singapore’s founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, who died last week aged 91.
  
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• Hughes backs ‘inquisitorial’ reform of civil justice

  30-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  A Liberal Democrat presence in government would lead to a review of changes to civil justice introduced under LASPO, says justice minister.
  
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• Global study of domestic abuse sentencing

  30-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Current sentencing response labelled ‘simply not good enough’.
  
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• Exton is new district judge president

  30-03-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  She was admitted as a solicitor in 1983.
  
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