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• NZ lawyer helps defend UK grandmother sentenced to death in Bali - TVNZ

  09-04-2015 21:57
  
  NZ lawyer helps defend UK grandmother sentenced to death in Bali
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  A New Zealand lawyer is helping to defend a British grandmother accused of smuggling cocaine into Bali. Lindsay Sandiford has admitted her role in an intricate drug syndicate operating out of the UK but says she only smuggled drugs into Bali because ...en meer »
  
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• Oklahoma nitrogen gas execution bill gets unanimous yes vote in state Senate

  09-04-2015 19:31
  
  Bill heads to governor after Thursday vote. If allowed, the method will be used if lethal injection is ruled unconstitutional or if deadly drugs become unavailable Oklahoma will become the first state in the nation to allow the use of nitrogen gas to execute inmates under a bill heading to the governor’s desk. Without a single dissenting vote, the Oklahoma Senate gave final approval Thursday to the bill allowing the new method to be used if lethal injection is ruled unconstitutional or if the
  
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• Scots remember solicitors who served

  09-04-2015 15:12 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The Law Society of Scotland has unveiled the first national memorial to the Scottish lawyers who died in the First World War.
  
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• Judge And Lawyer Among Three Killed In Court - Yahoo News UK

  09-04-2015 14:13
  
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  Judge And Lawyer Among Three Killed In Court
  Yahoo News UK
  A man has been arrested after a judge and lawyer were among three people shot dead in a court in Milan, the Italian Interior Minister has confirmed. The man was found by police in the town of Vimercate, 25km (15 miles) from Milan, after fleeing on a ...en meer »
  
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• Global giant Dentons unveils US merger

  09-04-2015 13:08 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  World’s largest firm by headcount to ally with McKenna Long & Aldridge.
  
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• Deprivation of liberty guidance clarifies rules

  09-04-2015 13:05 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal challenges to safeguards expected to rise 10-fold in coming year. 
  
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• Prison is punishment enough. But in the US, inmates also face violence and humiliation | Jonathan Simon

  09-04-2015 12:30
  
  A recent photo showed a young, bruised Georgia prisoner with a dog leash tied to his neck and surrounded by a menacing prison gang. When will this end?
  Does degradation enhance the social value of punishment? Reflection and research reject both ideas, yet conventional wisdom often assumes they do. Punishments that come from fellow prisoners, private resentments of guards or deliberate indifference to mental and physical illness have no place in the criminal justice system – not least because r
  
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• UK multi-agency anti-money laundering drive will give law enforcement better ... - Out-Law.com

  09-04-2015 11:31
  UK multi-agency anti-money laundering drive will give law enforcement better ...
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  However, regulatory law expert Anne-Marie Ottaway of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, said that the new intelligence-sharing initiative could increase the regulatory burdens on banks, which could find themselves pressured to raise ...
  
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• Suge Knight Fires His Robbery Case Lawyer - Yahoo News UK

  09-04-2015 11:04
  
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  Suge Knight Fires His Robbery Case Lawyer
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  Rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight is looking for a new lawyer after firing the man representing him in a robbery case. The Death Row Records founder is accused of stealing a camera in an altercation with a celebrity photographer in California. He is ...en meer »
  
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• Egyptian law in the dock as Shaimaa al-Sabbagh witnesses go on trial | Jared Maslin

  09-04-2015 11:00
  
  The trial of a prominent lawyer and 16 others who witnessed the shooting of a female protester in Cairo will intensify scrutiny of a controversial Egyptian lawWhen Egyptian police were filmed fatally shooting poet and activist Shaimaa al-Sabbagh at a January protest in central Cairo, it underscored the upsurge in the use of lethal force by security forces since the country’s 2011 uprising.Sabbagh’s dying moments, captured on camera, have come to epitomise the Egyptian state’s clampdown on
  
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• Co-op Legal in profit despite income slump

  09-04-2015 10:14 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  ABS standard-bearer posts annual loss of £5m - but broke into the black in the second half.
  
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• Co-op Legal claims trading in the black despite plummeting revenue

  09-04-2015 10:14 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  ABS standard-bearer reports underlying operating loss of £5m, down from £9m.
  
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• Co-op Legal 'back in profit' despite income slump

  09-04-2015 10:14 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  ABS standard-bearer reports underlying operating loss of £5m, down from £9m.
  
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• UN urged to ban 'killer robots' before they can be developed

  09-04-2015 06:03
  
  Fully autonomous weapons should be banned by international treaty, says a report by Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law SchoolFully autonomous weapons, already denounced as “killer robots”, should be banned by international treaty before they can be developed, a new report urges the United Nations . Under existing laws, computer programmers, manufacturers and military commanders would all escape liability for deaths caused by such machines, according to the study published on Thursday by Huma
  
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• Ex-legal chief warns on cycle law - Belfast Telegraph

  09-04-2015 01:18
  
  Belfast Telegraph
  Ex-legal chief warns on cycle law
  Belfast Telegraph
  A proposed law change aimed at protecting cyclists could have wider legal consequences - including tweaking the issue of welfare benefits - the former head of the Crown Prosecution Service has said.en meer »
  
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