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• Lord Janner could face dementia test, child abuse lawyer says - The Guardian

  25-04-2015 21:46
  
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  Lord Janner could face dementia test, child abuse lawyer says
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  The mental capacity of Lord Janner, who will not face child abuse charges because he has dementia, could still be examined by third-party expert witnesses, according to a lawyer representing several of his alleged victims. The move would be initiated ...en meer »
  
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• Lord Janner could face dementia test, child abuse lawyer says

  25-04-2015 21:46
  
  Peer’s alleged victims say they will ‘take advantage of every avenue they can pursue’The mental capacity of Lord Janner, who will not face child abuse charges because he has dementia, could still be examined by third-party expert witnesses, according to a lawyer representing several of his alleged victims.The move would be initiated as part of a series of civil claims being brought by alleged victims of the Labour peer who have been left distraught by the news that he will not face trial.
  
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• Sabeen Mahmud describes her ‘challenging but exciting’ work founding PeaceNiche - video

  25-04-2015 16:33
  
  Sabeen Mahmud, founder and director of PeaceNiche, gives an interview to Asia Society in New York, on 24th April 2014. Police in Pakistan reported on Saturday that Mehmud was killed on Friday night as she returned to her Karachi home with her mother, who was wounded in the assault. The Pakistani prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, condemned Mehmud's killing and has ordered an investigationWatch the full interview here Continue reading...
  
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• Are we failing parents whose children are taken into care?

  25-04-2015 09:30
  
  Social services can remove child after child from the same mother, without her being offered the help she needs to become a good-enough parent. The result is heartbreak, and very expensive – but now judges are calling for a new approachLeah can’t stop wringing her hands. Every fingernail is bitten to the quick. This 23-year-old mother of two boys wears a silver ring that spells out “Mum”: she’s never taken it off, she tells me, since being given it for her 20th birthday by the foster c
  
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