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• Spring Forward: Recent Changes In UK Employment Law - Mondaq News Alerts (registration)

  16-04-2015 22:48
  Spring Forward: Recent Changes In UK Employment Law
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  It's that time of the year again – 5 and 6 April typically bring changes to UK employment law each year, and 2015 is no exception. So whilst we were busy enjoying the first day of sunshine and moaning about how creme eggs don't taste as good any more ...
  
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• UK Vet Techs Ready for 2016 Microchip Law - VetPracticeNews.com

  16-04-2015 22:03
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  UK Vet Techs Ready for 2016 Microchip Law
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  Veterinary technicians in England and likely in Wales and Scotland are deemed adequately prepared to implant microchips in dogs. By Veterinary Practice News Editors. Published: 2015.04.16 12:36 PM. Posters announcing mandatory microchipping of dogs ...
  
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• The Guardian view on the Erol Incedal trial: silence in court | Editorial

  16-04-2015 20:45
  
  Open justice is a founding principle of democracy. The sweeping secrecy in this case could set a chilling precedentThe description Kafkaesque gets overused. But it seems apt when applied to events in the Old Bailey over the last year. There are echoes – some faint, some stronger – of Kafka’s Trial, in which the accused, Josef K, finds himself in a legal nightmare. One of the most disturbing aspects of K’s dilemma is that the proceedings are held in secret.A fundamental principle of Engli
  
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• Appeals court leaning toward Obama and EPA in battle over emissions cuts

  16-04-2015 20:18
  
  Two of three judges in court of appeals seemed to agree with defense that lawsuits over emissions cuts for coal-fired power plants are prematureTwo out of three judges on a federal appeals court panel are expressing doubts about a legal challenge to the Obama administration’s far-reaching plan to address climate change.The US court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit heard arguments Thursday in two cases challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to cut heat-trap
  
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• Police consider challenge to CPS ruling not to charge Lord Janner over allegations of abuse

  16-04-2015 20:14
  
  Director of public prosecutions had said ‘it was not in the public interest’ to put the QC and former MP on trial due to his ill healthPolice are considering an unprecedented judicial review against the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) following its controversial decision not to charge Lord Janner of Braunstone over allegations that he abused boys in children’s homes.The proposed legal challenge follows a statement on Thursday from the director of public prosecutions who said “it was not
  
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• Police consider challenge to CPS ruling not to charge Janner over abuse allegations

  16-04-2015 20:14
  
  Director of public prosecutions had said it was not in the public interest to put the QC and former MP on trial due to his ill healthPolice are considering an unprecedented legal challenge against the director of public prosecutions (DPP) over her failure to charge Lord Janner of Braunstone following allegations that he abused boys in children’s homes over nearly two decades.The proposed judicial review follows a statement on Thursday from the DPP who said “it was not in the public interest�
  
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• NFU urges UK MEPs to reject draft law limited amount of crops involved in ... - The Journal

  16-04-2015 20:06
  
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  NFU urges UK MEPs to reject draft law limited amount of crops involved in ...
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  The NFU in North East is urging UK MEPs to reject a draft law limiting the amount of crops involved in biofuel production, which is to be presented to the European Parliament (EP) at the end of the month. This will be the last EP vote on the draft ...en meer »
  
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• My friend Beauty almost turned her life around. Now she's lost to Rikers

  16-04-2015 19:48
  
  Beauty returned home to Oklahoma in December to seek refuge from the streets of the Bronx. A month later she was forcibly brought back, and today she remains trapped in an inflexible and overwhelmed legal system Part One: Struggling with addiction, my friend Beauty still made it home to Oklahoma Beauty was finally home with her mom, and for the first time in her 24 years neither had a need for drugs. Her mother was close to getting her three-year chip, after 30 years using crack. Beauty was only
  
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• Erol Incedal trial: media groups dispute refusal to lift reporting restrictions

  16-04-2015 19:02
  
  The Guardian, Times, Daily Mail and others launch challenge to restrictions in terrorism trial of London student cleared of plotting Mumbai-style attackThis article omits information that the Guardian and other news organisations are currently prohibited by a court order from publishingBritish media organisations are launching a legal challenge to a judge’s refusal to lift reporting restrictions that were imposed when a terrorism trial was heard in conditions of almost unprecedented secrecy.Th
  
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• Erol Incedal trial: media groups appeal refusal to lift reporting restrictions

  16-04-2015 19:02
  
  The Guardian, Times, Daily Mail and others launch challenge to restrictions in terrorism trial of London student cleared of plotting Mumbai-style attackThis article omits details of public interest which the Guardian and other news organisations are currently prohibited by law from publishingBritish media organisations are launching a legal challenge to a judge’s refusal to lift reporting restrictions that were imposed when a terrorism trial was heard in conditions of almost unprecedented secr
  
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• WikiLeaks' Assange agrees to London questioning: lawyer - Yahoo News UK

  16-04-2015 18:49
  
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  WikiLeaks' Assange agrees to London questioning: lawyer
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  Reuters/Reuters - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures during a news conference at the Ecuadorian embassy in central London August 18, 2014. REUTERS/John Stillwell/pool. STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Julian Assange has agreed to be questioned at ...en meer »
  
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• The General Election - Implications For Employment Law - Mondaq News Alerts (registration)

  16-04-2015 17:55
  The General Election - Implications For Employment Law
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  With just three weeks to go until the general election, and the main parties having now published their manifestos, what is the future looking like for employment law? The Conservatives have indicated their support for real terms increases in the ...en meer »
  
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• An End To The Charity Law Hotchpotch? - Mondaq News Alerts (registration)

  16-04-2015 17:25
  An End To The Charity Law Hotchpotch?
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  On 20 March 2015 the Law Commission published its second consultation paper on various technical issues in charity law. The first covered social investment by charities. The second, at 300 pages, embraces a wide range of topics suggested by the Charity ...
  
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• SRA proposes alternative to client accounts

  16-04-2015 17:23 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulator backs third party accounts as low-cost alternative and to help prevent misuse of client money.
  
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• We shouldn't make innocent prisoners wait decades to be free | Emily Maw

  16-04-2015 17:16
  
  Our adversarial justice system is ill-suited to exonerate wrongfully convicted persons. That’s why we need an alternative
  Kia Stewart’s trial lasted only a few hours before he was sent away to the Louisiana State Penitentiary, the former slave plantation known as Angola, for the rest of his life. He was wrongfully convicted of murder, but it would take 10 years of imprisonment before he was freed on 13 April 2015 in New Orleans. By the standards of most wrongful conviction cases, he got out
  
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• Family lawyer struck off for misleading client

  16-04-2015 16:52 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Duncan Ranton also misled opposing litigant and firm he was working for during investigation.
  
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• My friend died in a police van. That could have been me, if I were black | Chun Rosenkranz

  16-04-2015 15:46
  
  Hanuman and I both broke the law, but we didn’t meet the same fate. That’s because we live in a country whose criminal justice process is not color blind
  My friend Hanuman was cremated two weeks ago, his ashes now sit in a wooden box on his parent’s alter. The cause of his death is still being investigated, but we know he died shackled to a bench in the back of a prison van. He was 21 years old. Hanuman’s experience with the criminal justice system and ultimately his death, could easily
  
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• Julian Assange speech prompts judges to boycott legal conference

  16-04-2015 15:41
  
  Senior British justices say the addition of a ‘fugitive from justice’ at short notice forced them to withdraw from the Commonwealth Law Conference in GlasgowSenior judges from across the UK have explained their decision to boycott a legal conference in Glasgow at which the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke by video-link.
  Assange spoke at a panel session of the Commonwealth Law Conference about surveillance and security on Wednesday. He has been living at the Ecuadorian embassy in London
  
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• UK Law Firms Putting Client Data at Risk - Infosecurity Magazine

  16-04-2015 14:51
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  UK Law Firms Putting Client Data at Risk
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  Over 170 UK law firms were investigated for breaches of the Data Protection Act (DPA) last year, more than a quarter of which were security related incidents, according to a new freedom of information (FoI) request. The request, submitted by encryption ...
  UK law firms investigated 187 times for data protection breachesComputerworldUK
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• Assange conference booking sparks judicial boycott

  16-04-2015 14:50 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Senior judges withdraw from the Commonwealth Law Conference because the WikiLeaks founder is a ‘fugitive from justice’.
  
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• Lawyer welcomes safer trials of experimental drug that injured UK volunteers - Lexology (registration)

  16-04-2015 13:49
  Lawyer welcomes safer trials of experimental drug that injured UK volunteers
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  The lawyer for a number of victims of a clinical trial which seriously injured several people in 2006 has welcomed reports that a phase II trial of the drug, which has been the focus of far greater development and understanding, is about to begin in ...
  
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• Most legal services consumers expect free advice, finds poll

  16-04-2015 13:15 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Rising numbers of clients reporting they have received legal advice without paying for it.
  
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• Data page – April 2015

  16-04-2015 13:15 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
  
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• Data page - April 2015

  16-04-2015 13:15 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
  
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• Lord Janner will not be charged despite evidence of child abuse

  16-04-2015 13:13
  
  Leicestershire police condemn CPS decision that it is not in public interest to charge peer because he has Alzheimer’s diseaseThe Labour peer Lord Janner of Braunstone will not face charges over alleged historical child sex crimes despite evidence from four police inquiries that he had been involved in the abuse of children, the director of public prosecutions has said.Alison Saunders, the DPP, said in a statement that it was not in the public interest to put the QC and former MP on trial beca
  
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• Cost no longer top priority in PII renewal, survey finds

  16-04-2015 12:26 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society report shows that most firms regard their relationship with insurers as most important factor in choosing cover.
  
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• Cost no longer firms’ biggest priority in PII renewal, finds survey

  16-04-2015 12:26 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Most firms cited their existing relationship with insurers as the most important factor in choosing professional indemnity cover.
  
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• Decision not to prosecute Lord Janner will anger campaigners

  16-04-2015 11:45
  
  Analysis: Failure to put case before a jury will be seen by some as another plank in the continued coverup of alleged child sexual abuseThe fresh police investigation into Lord Janner of Braunstone provided the director of public prosecutions with a chance – campaigners believed – to right wrongs, to make amends for the failures of the past.After nine months studying police files on the case – which were produced by detectives who interviewed more than 20 alleged victims – Alison Saunder
  
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• Lord Janner: CPS fails to take chance to atone for failures of the past

  16-04-2015 11:44
  
  Analysis: failure to put case before a jury will be seen by some as another plank in the continued coverup of alleged child sexual abuseThe fresh police investigation into Lord Greville Janner of Braunstone provided the director of public prosecutions with a chance – campaigners believed – to right wrongs, to make amends for the failures of the past. Failures which the DPP admitted for the first time on Thursday.But after nine months studying police files on the case – which were produced
  
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• Trial of Lebanese broadcaster charged with contempt of court opens in Hague

  16-04-2015 11:34
  
  Beirut-based station and its deputy head of news plead not guilty in case relating to investigation into death of former Lebanese PM Rafik HaririA UN-backed court set up to investigate the assassination 10 years ago of the Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri has finally put defendants in the dock. Tellingly, however, they are not suspects accused of the crime, but journalists charged with contempt of court.
  The special tribunal for Lebanon (STL), which has been sitting for almost a year with no
  
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• Firm makes acquisition in expansion push across East Midlands

  16-04-2015 11:15 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  East Midlands firm Nelsons Solicitors acquires Derby-based Moody and Woolley.
  
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• Lord Janner will not face trial over abuse claims

  16-04-2015 09:57
  
  DPP is expected to announce decision that it is not in public interest to proceed with case against Labour peerLabour peer Lord Janner of Braunstone will escape charges for the second time over alleged historical child sex crimes, prosecution sources have confirmed.Alison Saunders, the director of public prosecutions, is expected to
  announce on Thursday that it is not in the public interest to put the QC and former MP on trial. Continue reading...
  
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• ICO probes 173 law firms over data protection breaches

  16-04-2015 01:05 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Major cyber breach in legal profession ‘only a matter of time’, says former Bank of England head of security.
  
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• Hillary Clinton's views evolve on gay marriage, just in time for presidential campaign

  16-04-2015 01:04
  
  After dodging questions and facing Bill Clinton’s legacy, team shifts support from state-by-state decisions to federal right ahead of supreme court arguments Related: Hillary Clinton leans left out of Iowa with bold progressive checklist Hillary Clinton’s views evolved on same-sex marriage within the first 72 hours of her presidential run, as her campaign said Wednesday that the former secretary of state now backs marriage equality as a US constitutional right. Continue reading...
  
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• Hillary Clinton evolves on gay marriage, just in time for presidential campaign

  16-04-2015 01:04
  
  After dodging questions and facing Bill Clinton’s legacy, team shifts support from state-by-state decisions to federal right ahead of supreme court arguments Related: Hillary Clinton leans left out of Iowa with bold progressive checklist Hillary Clinton evolved on same-sex marriage within the first 72 hours of her presidential run, as her campaign said Wednesday that the former secretary of state now backs marriage equality as a US constitutional right. Continue reading...
  
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• BSB begins push for more flexible routes to the bar

  16-04-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Bar regulator to develop ‘professional statement’ to define what a newly qualified barrister should be able to do. 
  
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