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• Texas could vote to block gay marriage before supreme court ruling

  12-05-2015 21:24
  
  Bill being debated in the legislature seeks to bar officials from issuing same-sex marriage licenses or recognizing same-sex unions performed in another stateTexas lawmakers could vote this week to pass a law that would block same-sex marriage, even as the US supreme court considers whether or not to make it legal across the US.
  Since the start of the current legislative session in January, Texas Republicans have proposed more than 20 bills meant to weaken LGBT rights in the state – one of the
  
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• Syria’s truth smugglers | Julian Borger

  12-05-2015 21:10
  
  A team of Syrian investigators have risked their lives to collect secret government documents that provide evidence of war crimes by Bashar al-Assad and his regime. Will an international court ever hear their cases?One day in February 2014, a dusty and dented pick-up truck approached an Isis checkpoint outside the Syrian border town of Tell Abyad, carrying two men dressed in the simple djellaba robes and loose keffiyehs worn by local farmers. The fighter on duty checked their identity cards and
  
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• Smuggled Syrian documents enough to indict Bashar al-Assad, say investigators

  12-05-2015 21:00
  
  Prosecution cases have been prepared against president and senior members of his regime for possible war crimes tribunalA three-year operation to smuggle official documents out of Syria has produced enough evidence to indict President Bashar al-Assad and 24 senior members of his regime, according to the findings of an international investigative commission.The prosecution cases against the Syrian leaders focus on their role in the suppression of the protests that triggered the conflict in 2011.
  
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• Concern over UK human rights law proposals - RTE.ie

  12-05-2015 18:56
  
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  Concern over UK human rights law proposals
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  The potential of a re-drawing of human rights laws in the UK is deeply concerning, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has warned. The government is proposing a new British Bill of Rights to replace the current Human Rights Act - a move that ...en meer »
  
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• Collective Consultation Obligations: Restoring the “Establishment” Test in UK ... - The National Law Review

  12-05-2015 18:51
  
  Collective Consultation Obligations: Restoring the “Establishment” Test in UK ...
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  On 30 April, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued its decision on whether the UK Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) was right to conclude that UK law was incompatible with EU law in relation to collective consultation obligations and to therefore ...en meer »
  
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• Scottish government to thwart Tory attempt to scrap Human Rights Act

  12-05-2015 17:59
  
  Scottish government source warns there could be a ‘complete standoff’ as Holyrood says it will withhold legislative consentThe Scottish government has said that it will withhold legislative consent on the Conservative proposals to scrap the 1998 Human Rights Act, as it emerged that the SNP has already had informal discussions with Tory backbenchers who oppose the move.The social justice secretary, Alex Neil, told the Holyrood chamber on Tuesday afternoon: “The Scottish government’s posit
  
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• Scotland 'will not consent' to Tory plans to scrap Human Rights Act

  12-05-2015 17:59
  
  Scottish government source warns there could be a complete standoff as Holyrood says it will withhold legislative consentThe Scottish government has said that it will withhold legislative consent on the Conservative proposals to scrap the 1998 Human Rights Act, as it emerged that the SNP has already had informal discussions with Tory backbenchers who oppose the move.The social justice secretary, Alex Neil, told the Holyrood chamber on Tuesday afternoon: “The Scottish government’s position is
  
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• Assange lawyer vows appeal to international courts - Yahoo News UK

  12-05-2015 17:58
  
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  Assange lawyer vows appeal to international courts
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  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will appeal to international courts against an arrest warrant for alleged rape and sexual assault, his Spanish lawyer said Tuesday. Sweden's Supreme Court said Monday it had rejected an appeal by the Australian former ...en meer »
  
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• Former City solicitor Raab joins MoJ

  12-05-2015 15:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Civil libertarian and Strasbourg critic appointed as parliamentary under secretary of state at the Ministry of Justice today.
  
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• Lithuanian MPs petition Lords Speaker over child custody case

  12-05-2015 14:54
  
  Letter complains that 12-year-old girl is being deprived of her cultural inheritance after council removed her from her motherA delegation of Lithuanian MPs has written to the House of Lords complaining about the removal of a 12-year-old girl from her mother, alleging that she is being deprived of her cultural inheritance.The letter, sent to the Speaker of the House of Lords, Lady D’Souza, is the second high-profile intervention by a Baltic state in UK care proceedings this year and reflects a
  
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• UK Anti-Doping appoint former law enforcement officer as director of operations - Insidethegames.biz

  12-05-2015 14:42
  
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  UK Anti-Doping appoint former law enforcement officer as director of operations
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  UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) have announced the appointment of Pat Myhill as their new director of operations. Myhill, who joined the organisation back in September 2013 as an investigator before he became head of intelligence and investigations the following ...en meer »
  
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• Wake Up Call: First UK Law Firm to File for IPO - Bloomberg Big Law Business

  12-05-2015 14:32
  
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  Wake Up Call: First UK Law Firm to File for IPO
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  ... • The first U.K. firm to sell shares in an initial public offering, Gateley LLP, will be valued at as much as $218 million. The firm will be listed on London's AIM later this year and hopes to raise as much as 16 million dollars from the IPO. The ...en meer »
  
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• US employee sues after 'being fired for deleting app' that tracked her location

  12-05-2015 13:47
  
  Myrna Arias alleges her job in sales was terminated for uninstalling app that let her managers monitor her even when off-dutyAn American sales executive is suing for wrongful termination after she was fired from her job for uninstalling an app that let her employer track her location 24 hours a day, even while she was off-duty.Myrna Arias, who according to her lawsuit worked for money transfer company Intermex for three months until she was fired in May 2014, had been required to download Xora,
  
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• Child immigrant detainees: 'There's an overwhelming sadness among them'

  12-05-2015 13:30
  
  Despite hopes that the end of immigration detention centers could be near, for some kids, the psychological damage has already been doneRead more: Many migrant families held by US could soon be free from detention ‘nightmare’ Related: Many migrant families held by US could soon be free from detention 'nightmare' The photograph of the toddler’s T-shirt tells a story. Its grey and white stripes are splattered with large blotches of dried blood, the deep red of the stains clashing with the br
  
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• Three held over suspected sale of crash data

  12-05-2015 13:19 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Insurer reports ‘inappropriate’ liaison with claims management company.
  
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• Profits rise with income at Kingsley Napley

  12-05-2015 13:15 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Overall profits expected to be up 8% on 2014, but PEP likely to be flat.
  
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• Legal aid lawyers fear further cuts under the Conservative government

  12-05-2015 13:00
  
  The Criminal Bar Association may not be about to down tools, but their members are increasingly restless over new duty contractsMany legal aid and criminal lawyers will have sunk their heads into their hands as election results came through in the early hours of Friday morning. None of the parties, other than the Greens, had promised to reverse all the £600m of legal aid cuts inflicted by the coalition government. But Labour had pledged to halt the deeply unpopular tendering process for du
  
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• Scrapping Human Rights Act 'would breach Good Friday agreement'

  12-05-2015 12:34
  
  Belfast-based human rights organisation says Conservative government’s plans to ditch HRA will also violate international treaty Scrapping the Human Rights Act would be a breach of the Good Friday agreement that sealed the peace process in Northern Ireland, a Belfast-based human rights organisation has said.The Conservative government’s plans to ditch the HRA will also violate an international treaty as the agreement in 1998 was an accord between two sovereign states - the UK and the Irish R
  
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• European court says 12-day detention of Northern Ireland suspects was lawful

  12-05-2015 12:12
  
  Human rights court dismisses challenges by Colin Duffy, Gabriel Magee and Teresa Magee, who were held under anti-terrorism legislation in 2009Three suspects who were held for 12 days in Northern Ireland under anti-terrorism legislation have failed in a human rights challenge to prove that their detention was unlawful.The European court of human rights dismissed the applications by Colin Duffy, a prominent republican activist, Gabriel Magee and Teresa Magee. They were arrested in 2009 following t
  
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• Clyde & Co in ‘advanced’ merger talks

  12-05-2015 12:11 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  International firm could boost Scottish presence if deal is struck with Simpson & Marwick.
  
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• Gateley to Become First U.K. Law Firm to Go Public - Bloomberg

  12-05-2015 09:42
  
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  Gateley to Become First U.K. Law Firm to Go Public
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  Gateley LLP will be valued at as much as 140 million pounds ($218 million) after it becomes first U.K. law firm to sell shares in an initial public offering later this year. Gateley, which will be listed on London's AIM, hired Cantor Fitzgerald Europe ...
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• 'I will not be silenced': fight for justice that gave Kenyan rape victims a voice

  12-05-2015 05:09
  
  When Australian aid worker Charlotte Campbell-Stephen was gang raped, police told her ‘no one wins rape cases in Kenya’. Her battle to prove them wrong took more than seven yearsAs Charlotte Campbell-Stephen sat in a Kenyan police station reporting the brutal attack and gang rape she endured over an eight-hour period, the police interview room began to fill with men. It was 2006 and Campbell-Stephen, an Australian aid worker, was giving detective inspector Geoff Kinuya what she described as
  
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• Alabama grandmother gets life in prison for running grandchild, nine, to death

  12-05-2015 04:28
  
  Joyce Hardin Garrard, described by prosecutors as the ‘drill sergeant from hell’, given life without parole for killing her granddaughter, SavannahAn Alabama woman convicted of running her nine-year-old granddaughter to death as punishment for lying about candy has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.On Monday Joyce Hardin Garrard, the diminutive grandmother described by prosecutors as the “drill sergeant from hell”, told the court that if she could have an
  
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