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Fatal crash led Mark Lundy's lawyer David Hislop to move to UK - Stuff.co.nz

03-04-2015 18:00

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Fatal crash led Mark Lundy's lawyer David Hislop to move to UK
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An investigative journalist's article about the Lundy case whetted David Hislop's appetite and he led a successful appeal to the Privy Council in London. Mark Lundy's London "silk" David Hislop left New Zealand nearly 30 years ago in the wake of the ...en meer »

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Alabama man who spent nearly 30 years on death row freed: 'Case is quite tragic'

03-04-2015 17:01

Anthony Ray Hinton, 58, was convicted in 1985 of two murders Supreme court ruled last year he had ‘constitutionally deficient’ representationA man who spent nearly 30 years on Alabama’s death row has been freed following a decades-long fight to prove his innocence.Anthony Ray Hinton, 58, was released Friday morning from an Alabama prison. He hugged family members as he walked out, saying, “Thank you Jesus.”Continue reading...

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Letter: Michael Fisher’s schooldays

03-04-2015 16:22

Michael Fisher owed some of his steely cussedness to the four years he spent at St Louis, Banbury, an eccentric Oxfordshire prep school of 50 boys.Although, in later life, he liked to dissociate himself from anything as conventional as sporting prowess, he was in fact an excellent cricketer and courageous full-back, tackling everything that came his way, just as he did in his career as a fearless lawyer. Continue reading...

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'Uncertainty' over second 8.75% legal aid fee cut

03-04-2015 10:49 via lawgazette.co.uk

Practitioner group seeking answers from Legal Aid Agency over proposed fee cuts for criminal work.

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Labour pledges to cancel judicial review changes

03-04-2015 10:00

Changes introduced on last day of parliament are a petulant attempt to disregard judgment of high court, party saysLabour has pledged to cancel changes for judicial reviews that were introduced by the coalition government on the final day of parliament.
The last-minute changes were made in response to a high court ruling that partially overturned government measures to prevent claimants being paid until a judge gives permission for any case to go ahead.Continue reading...

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