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• Clarifying the rules on tenant deposit schemes; and tax reductions on French ... - Financial Times

  15-05-2015 22:01
  Financial Times
  Clarifying the rules on tenant deposit schemes; and tax reductions on French ...
  Financial Times
  I have a portfolio of buy-to let properties, some of which have been with the same tenant for almost 10 years. I've read all sorts of comments about tenants' deposits in the press recently and I'm confused. What do I have to do? The basic rule is that ...
  
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• Behind the scenes at a police rape team: 'we start by believing the victim'

  15-05-2015 19:50
  
  In the last year Greater Manchester police dealt with 1,800 rape cases, now a BBC documentary is following detectives at its serious sexual offences unitWith one word, the young Romanian in the dock at Manchester crown court brought to a gratifyingly early end one of the 1,802 rape cases dealt with by Greater Manchester police (GMP) in the last year.“Vinovat” said Bogdan Drezaliu, 21, when asked via his interpreter on Friday morning if he admitted attempting to anally rape a jogger in a nort
  
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• Can Keir Starmer really become Labour leader? And should he? | Michael White

  15-05-2015 19:06
  
  He’s only been an MP for a week, but already activists are trying to draft the ex-DPP into the leadership contest. Would it be a wise for him or Labour?The late John Smith once confided that, though he had been engaged in political strife for decades and served in cabinet, all that experience had left him woefully ill-prepared for the relentless exposure he would face as Labour leader, for a brief two years (1992-94), as it turned out.Chuka Umunna’s career got nowhere near as far as that, be
  
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• Barrister given four years for 'despicable' assault

  15-05-2015 18:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Desmond Rosario was found guilty of sexually assaulting a teenage girl.
  
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• UK law enforcers support snoopers' charter - ComputerWeekly.com

  15-05-2015 18:21
  
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  UK law enforcers support snoopers' charter
  ComputerWeekly.com
  Three of the UK's law enforcement chiefs have come out in support of a revival of the so-called "snoopers' charter" to monitor electronic communications. The draft Communications Data Bill was shelved under the previous parliament after it was blocked ...
  
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• Poland pays $250,000 to victims of CIA rendition and torture

  15-05-2015 18:02
  
  European court of human rights sets Saturday deadline for paymentAbu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri still held at Guantánamo BayPoland is paying a quarter of a million dollars to two terror suspects tortured by the CIA in a secret facility in this country – prompting outrage among many here who feel they are being punished for American wrongdoing.Europe’s top human rights court imposed the penalty against Poland, setting a Saturday deadline. Related: G2: Khaled el-Masri describes Amer
  
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• Poland pays $250,000 to alleged victims of CIA rendition and torture

  15-05-2015 18:02
  
  European court of human rights sets Saturday deadline for paymentAbu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri still held at Guantánamo BayPoland is paying a quarter of a million dollars to two terror suspects allegedly tortured by the CIA in a secret facility in this country – prompting outrage among many here who feel they are being punished for American wrongdoing.Europe’s top human rights court imposed the penalty against Poland, setting a Saturday deadline. Related: G2: Khaled el-Masri desc
  
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• ​'Underhand, undemocratic': GCHQ continues controversial hacking after covert ... - RT

  15-05-2015 17:55
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  ​'Underhand, undemocratic': GCHQ continues controversial hacking after covert ...
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  The British government has quietly re-written the law to permit its electronic intelligence agency to continue with controversial surveillance practices, according to campaigners. Privacy International had been in the process of bringing a legal ...
  U.K. Accused of Changing Law to Let Spies Hack Into ComputersBloomberg
  UK government rewrites surveillance law to get away with hacking and allow ...Be
  
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• How we rid Somerville College, Oxford, of sexist laddism and abuse | Alice Prochaska

  15-05-2015 14:03
  
  There were worrying signs that the rising tide of sexual intimidation had reached Somerville. As a college with an ethos founded for inclusiveness, we had to actAbuse has many allies, and silence and fear rank high among them. When unthinking sexism or plain bullying spill over into verbal taunts, physical threats, and worse, how best can they be combated? Is there really a nationwide epidemic of bad behaviour and intimidation? Or is it that a prevailing culture of respect and empathy is failing
  
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• How we are fighting sexist laddism and abuse at Somerville College, Oxford | Alice Prochaska

  15-05-2015 14:03
  
  There were worrying signs that the rising tide of sexual intimidation had reached Somerville. As a college with an ethos founded for inclusiveness, we had to actAbuse has many allies, and silence and fear rank high among them. When unthinking sexism or plain bullying spill over into verbal taunts, physical threats, and worse, how best can they be combated? Is there really a nationwide epidemic of bad behaviour and intimidation? Or is it that a prevailing culture of respect and empathy is failing
  
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• Supreme Court ‘iPlayer’ time limit condemned

  15-05-2015 13:42 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Supreme Court proceedings on video archive will be available for just one year before they submerge for five years.
  
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• Don’t get complacent on money laundering – Society

  15-05-2015 12:29 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Fourth money laundering directive to become European law this month. 
  
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• Is your employer allowed to watch you?

  15-05-2015 12:24
  
  A law suit in the US highlights the question of just how much employee surveillance is permissableHave you ever felt that your employer is watching you? In the US, it seems some employers have taken monitoring of their employees to a new level. A US sales executive is suing her employer for invasion of privacy, alleging she was fired after deleting a mobile phone app which tracked her movements – both inside and outside of work.The app was called Xora and, according to court documents, employe
  
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• Commercial litigation spending slumps in UK – research

  15-05-2015 11:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Commercial litigation spending in the UK has fallen dramatically since 2012.
  
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• Commercial litigation spending slumps in UK

  15-05-2015 11:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Commercial litigation spending in the UK has fallen dramatically since 2012.
  
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• China indicts detained lawyer on charge of making trouble - Yahoo News UK

  15-05-2015 11:33
  
  China indicts detained lawyer on charge of making trouble
  Yahoo News UK
  BEIJING (AP) — A prominent Chinese rights lawyer has been formally indicted on charges of fanning ethnic hatred and provoking trouble, more than one year after he was taken into police custody. A Beijing prosecuting office said Friday that Pu Zhiqiang ...en meer »
  
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• Look out, law abiding folk: UK's Counter-Extremism Bill slithers into view - The Register

  15-05-2015 10:20
  
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  Look out, law abiding folk: UK's Counter-Extremism Bill slithers into view
  The Register
  The UK's National Security Council is meeting today to discuss the new Counter-Extremism Bill, with prime minister David Cameron seemingly determined to target those spouting extremist rhetoric - even when no criminal offence has been committed.en meer »
  
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• Eurosceptic David Davis could oppose government on human rights reform

  15-05-2015 08:00
  
  Tory MP’s comments show growing backbench rebellion over plan that could lead to withdrawal from European court of human rights The Conservative MP David Davis, a prominent Eurosceptic, has threatened to oppose government proposals that could lead to the UK withdrawing from the European court of human rights.Davis’s reported comments are a sign of growing rebellion on the Tory backbenches as the complexity and political difficulties involved in seceding from the judicial authority of the Str
  
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• Human Rights Act abolition will be no 'quick win' for the Tories

  15-05-2015 08:00
  
  While Human Rights Act repeal is a key part of David Cameron’s 100-day policy offensive, there is little agreement among Conservatives over how to do itTory party media spinners have portrayed the abolition of the Human Rights Act as a dramatic “quick win” for the incoming majority Conservative government, newly liberated from their Liberal Democrat coalition partners.
  The repeal of the HRA and its replacement with a British bill of rights – or at least a promise to produce a draft bill
  
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