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• Lobbying by charities needs the protection of the law | Letters

  02-04-2015 20:30
  
  Your report on plans for US-style protection for journalism highlights a wider need to protect free speech (Lib Dems seek US-style first amendment, 1 April). Any such amendment should also cover charities, making it crystal clear in law that charities have a fundamental right to speak out on behalf of their beneficiaries. Lobbying for changes in the law to help their causes is an essential part of civil society and it should be absolutely beyond question that charities have a right to do that.Th
  
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• Purvi Patel case sets bad tone for reproductive rights in Indiana

  02-04-2015 20:29
  
  Patel’s 20-year sentence is the first time the feticide law has been successfully used to convict a woman and if upheld critics wonder what else will be alteredLegal and medical experts say women’s reproductive rights in Indiana could be dramatically altered in the wake of a 20-year prison sentence handed down this week to an Indiana woman for self-aborting her fetus.
  In July 2013, Purvi Patel, now 33, used abortion drugs purchased online from Hong Kong to attempt to terminate her pregnancy
  
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• Purvi Patel case: legal experts warn on reproductive rights in Indiana

  02-04-2015 20:29
  
  Patel’s 20-year sentence is the first time the feticide law has been successfully used to convict a woman and if upheld critics wonder what else will be alteredLegal and medical experts say women’s reproductive rights in Indiana could be dramatically altered in the wake of a 20-year prison sentence handed down this week to an Indiana woman for self-aborting her fetus.
  In July 2013, Purvi Patel, now 33, used abortion drugs purchased online from Hong Kong to attempt to terminate her pregnancy
  
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• Leading Bahraini activist Nabeel Rajab arrested for highlighting prison abuse

  02-04-2015 20:08
  
  Head of Bahrain Center for Human Rights detained by police after speaking out over allegations of human rights abuses after riots in Jaw prisonThe Bahraini authorities have arrested a leading human rights activist, Nabeel Rajab, who has spoken out against a recent outbreak of violence in one of the country’s most notorious prisons.Rajab, president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, was taken into custody on Thursday after a group of security forces surrounded his house in Bani Jamra, west
  
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• Google could be fined £4.4bn as Brussels signals legal challenge in offing

  02-04-2015 20:06
  
  Margrethe Vestager, European competition commissioner, appears to be taking forward complaints of 30 online firms that Google is harming their businessesGoogle could face a fine of up to $6.6bn (£4.4bn) after the European Commission began to update its evidence against the search engine – signalling that Brussels has decided to launch a full-blown legal challenge into its dominance.The newly installed competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, whose political career inspired the block
  
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• Google could be fined £4.4bn after EC signals full-blown legal challenge

  02-04-2015 20:06
  
  Margrethe Vestager, European competition commissioner, appears to be taking forward complaints of 30 online firms that Google is harming their businessesGoogle could face a fine of up to $6.6bn (£4.4bn) after the European Commission began to update its evidence against the search engine – signalling that Brussels has decided to launch a full-blown legal challenge into its dominance.Newly installed competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager, whose political career inspired the blockbuste
  
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• Legal London battles on following Holborn blaze

  02-04-2015 18:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Royal Courts of Justice was closed following underground electrical fire in central London yesterday.
  
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• Tenant wins battle to stop Westminster council moving her out of London

  02-04-2015 17:12
  
  Titina Nzolameso prevents council moving her family to Milton Keynes in a supreme court ruling that will impact how local authorities house the homelessA single mother of five children has won a protracted legal battle, and prevented Westminster council from removing her family to Milton Keynes.Titina Nzolameso’s victory at the supreme court will have a significant impact on how councils carry out their duty to house the homeless. The number of families forced to accept accommodation outside t
  
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• Indiana to amend religious freedom bill to put an end to discrimination

  02-04-2015 16:22
  
  State legislature changes language in response to nationwide backlash, and says RFRA bill ‘cannot be used to discriminate against anyone’Indiana lawmakers have introduced a change to the state’s controversial religious freedom bill that clarifies that it does not authorize businesses to discriminate against people, Republican leaders announced on Thursday.The Republican proposal is said to have support from governor Mike Pence, who has been subject to intense criticism since signing the Re
  
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• Indiana amends religious freedom bill to put an end to discrimination

  02-04-2015 16:22
  
  State legislature changes language in response to nationwide backlash, and says RFRA bill ‘cannot be used to discriminate against anyone’Indiana lawmakers have introduced a change to the state’s controversial religious freedom bill that clarifies that it does not authorize businesses to discriminate against people, Republican leaders announced on Thursday.The Republican proposal is said to have support from governor Mike Pence, who has been subject to intense criticism since signing the Re
  
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• Restore intent to money laundering guidelines – Society

  02-04-2015 15:24 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Chancery Lane says solicitors at risk of unintentionally committing offences.
  
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• Legal ‘boom’ for local authorities

  02-04-2015 15:07 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Nearly half of councils are considering generating external income from legal services.
  
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• Slater and Gordon share offer raises £310m

  02-04-2015 14:06 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Firm says it is unconcerned at Quindell suspending shares for revenue correction, days after the latter announced the conditional sale of its professional services division to Slaters.
  
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• British-Iranian woman jailed over volleyball game sees charges dropped

  02-04-2015 13:42
  
  Hardline judiciary changes course over Ghoncheh Ghavami, who was arrested after trying to attend a men’s match in IranAn appeals court in Tehran has dismissed charges against an Iranian-British woman who was jailed for trying to attend a men’s volleyball game, meaning that she will not have to return to prison.Ghoncheh Ghavami, a 26-year-old law graduate of SOAS, University of London, was released on a £20,000 bail in November after spending five months in Tehran’s notorious Evin pri
  
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• Anthony Scrivener obituary

  02-04-2015 13:06
  
  Leading barrister whose notable cases included those of Siôn Jenkins, Tony Martin, Winston Silcott and Dame Shirley PorterIn what was seen as a revolutionary piece of legal dexterity, Anthony Scrivener QC acted for Florence Siddons, the grandmother of the teenage Lynn Siddons, stabbed to death on a Derbyshire towpath in April 1978. The police investigation was not well handled and a case was brought against a 15-year-old boy, Roy Brookes, who was rightly acquitted.There were no further proceedi
  
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• Anthony Scrivener

  02-04-2015 13:06
  
  Leading barrister whose notable cases included those of Siôn Jenkins, Tony Martin, Winston Silcott and Dame Shirley Porter has died aged 79In what was seen as a revolutionary piece of legal dexterity, Anthony Scrivener QC acted for Florence Siddons, the grandmother of the teenage Lynn Siddons, stabbed to death on a Derbyshire towpath in April 1978. The police investigation was not well handled and a case was brought against a 15-year-old boy, Roy Brookes, who was rightly acquitted.There were no
  
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• Royal Courts of Justice closed following Holborn fire

  02-04-2015 09:53 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Electrical fire under central London pavement forced thousands to evacuate nearby buildings.
  
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• Let's learn the rules of the digital road before talking about a web Magna Carta

  02-04-2015 08:30
  
  Technology is moving so fast we’re only beginning to understand how it will change society. It’s too early to distill our thinking to an internet bill of rightsKarl Popper, the scientific philosopher, gave a definitive answer to the question: “Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?” The answer is neither: they co-evolved. Simply put, there once were two primordial entities which weren’t very chicken-like or egg-like. Over time small changes occurred rendering those entities into tw
  
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• Thousands turned down for civil legal aid since LASPO

  02-04-2015 01:07 via lawgazette.co.uk
  Ministry of Justice publishes latest statistics for legal aid in England and Wales.
  
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