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• Anti-Muslim film that sparked violence goes back up on YouTube

  19-05-2015 22:25
  
  Innocence of Muslims reposted a day after a federal appeals court ruled the website should not have been forced to take it down An anti-Muslim film that sparked violence in the Middle East and death threats to actors was reposted to YouTube on Tuesday, a day after a federal appeals court ruled the website should not have been forced to take it down.The roughly 14-minute trailer for Innocence of Muslims was reposted by a YouTube user. Continue reading...
  
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• Phil Shiner profile: A lawyer who takes on the underdog cases - The Independent

  19-05-2015 21:15
  
  The Independent
  Phil Shiner profile: A lawyer who takes on the underdog cases
  The Independent
  A devout Catholic who describes himself as a “committed socialist”, Phil Shiner has earned a reputation taking on underdog causes. After attending a tough Coventry comprehensive and studying law at Birmingham University, be began his career battling ...en meer »
  
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• Partner profits soar at BLP

  19-05-2015 17:14 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  London Bridge-headquartered firm boosts income by 6% and PEP by 22%.
  
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• Partner profits soar at Berwin Leighton Paisner

  19-05-2015 17:14 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  London Bridge-headquartered firm boosts income by 6% and PEP by 22%.
  
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• Partner profit soars at Berwin Leighton Paisner

  19-05-2015 17:14 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  London Bridge-headquartered firm boosts income by 6% and PEP by 22%.
  
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• Court to rule on North Carolina state trooper who lost his hat – and then lost his job

  19-05-2015 16:55
  
  Trooper Thomas Wetherington was fired in 2009 for lying to his superiors, after he said his hat was blown off his head and run over by a truck Six years after a North Carolina state trooper broke down in tears in front of the superior who caught him in a lie about his lost hat, the state’s supreme court will decide whether the highway patrol was right to fire him for the fib.In March 2009, trooper Thomas Wetherington lost his hat during a traffic stop and subsequently told his supervising serg
  
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• Ike Cowen obituary

  19-05-2015 16:24
  
  My friend Harold “Ike” Cowen, who has died aged 97, was one of the founding fathers of the gay rights movement in the UK.In 1969 he set up the first gay social club run and owned by its members – the Pavilion, in the Derbyshire countryside. Shortly afterwards he became the legal officer for the Campaign for Homosexual Equality, and in that capacity produced a draft sexual offences bill, designed to eliminate the anomalies of the 1967 Act, which set a discriminatory age of consent for male
  
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• Poverty in Nicaragua drives children out of school and into work | Nina Lakhani

  19-05-2015 15:59
  
  As the World Education Forum opens, Nicaragua, with its high figures for school dropout and child labour, offers an insight into the barriers to education Strolling through the coastal town of Bluefields on a school day, the number of children out and about is striking. Young hustlers sell cold drinks and sweet breads, teenage mums push snoozing infants in prams, while small groups of adolescents idle away hours on shaded park benches listening to the latest dancehall hits.Boredom is one reason
  
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• Gove sworn in as lord chancellor

  19-05-2015 15:56 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Michael Gove spoke without notes, stressing access to justice and the rule of law during today’s ceremony at the Royal Courts of Justice.
  
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• Legal aid legislation ‘disgracefully complex’

  19-05-2015 15:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Court of Appeal calls for clarity over availability of funding for county court proceedings.
  
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• Slater and Gordon chief: Quindell will be ‘separate entity’

  19-05-2015 15:22 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Ministry of Justice head of claims management regulation also confirms next government will make reforms of hearing loss claims a priority.
  
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• Lawyer wins battle for baby grand - Belfast Telegraph

  19-05-2015 15:20
  
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  Lawyer wins battle for baby grand
  Belfast Telegraph
  A millionaire American lawyer embroiled in a High Court cash battle with his fifth wife has won a fight to keep his hands on a Steinway baby grand piano. Also in this Section. Poll shows dip in trust in polls · Romans partial to a big maximus · [TICON ...en meer »
  
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• Supermarket giant shuts Walmart.horse website after joke has bolted

  19-05-2015 14:54
  
  Era of free rein over equine internet is no more: cartoonist Jeph Jacques’s .horse website goes offline after he is contacted by corporationThe greatest horse-based web domain in history is no more: Walmart.horse has disappeared from the internet following a complaint from the American megastore chain.Registered in late February by Massachusetts-based cartoonist Jeph Jacques, author of webcomic Questionable Content, Walmart.horse was a simple website containing nothing but a picture of a horse
  
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• Garry Newlove killer fails in bid to cut jail term

  19-05-2015 14:47
  
  Jordan Cunliffe, convicted of murder of man who confronted vandals, was sentenced to minimum of 12 years in 2008The high court has rejected an application for a reduction in the 12-year minimum jail term imposed on one of the killers of Garry Newlove, who was kicked to death outside his home after confronting vandals.Newlove, a 47-year-old salesman who had overcome stomach cancer, was attacked outside his home in Warrington, Cheshire, in 2007. He suffered massive head injuries in the assault, wh
  
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• Michael Gove sworn in as lord chancellor

  19-05-2015 14:06
  
  Justice secretary sworn in at Royal Courts of Justice in presence of senior judgesIn the presence of the most senior judges in England and Wales, the new justice secretary, Michael Gove, has been sworn in as lord chancellor.The ceremony was held in court four of the Royal Courts of Justice in central London. Gove was greeted at the judges’ entrance at the rear of the Gothic Victorian building by the lord chief justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd Continue reading...
  
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• Majority of whistleblowers left without legal representation

  19-05-2015 13:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Whistleblowers without a lawyer ‘significantly’ less likely to be successful in their claim, research shows.
  
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• Thousands go legal walking for justice

  19-05-2015 10:47 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The London Legal Walk attracted a record turnout from across the profession. View our image gallery of all the best pics.
  
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• Legal walking in the London sun

  19-05-2015 10:47 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The London Legal Walk attracted a record turn-out from across the profession.
  
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• Legal walking for justice

  19-05-2015 10:47 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The London Legal Walk attracted a record turnout from across the profession.
  
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• Rachelle Louise v the Tele: another great case, snatched away from us | Richard Ackland

  19-05-2015 07:34
  
  Defamation cases are where the law, the media and the plaintiff’s sense of self intersect – and Rachelle Louise v the Daily Telegraph had it all It’s incredibly depressing when a good court case is snatched away from us, with the parties suddenly securing a secret settlement and bringing down the curtain on all the drama.So it was with Rachelle Louise’s defamation case against the Daily Telegraph. It disappeared from view on only the fourth day of trial – over a week ago – just as a
  
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• Bradley Walsh on why he swapped Law & Order: UK for BBC One's Sun Trap - Digital Spy UK

  19-05-2015 01:18
  
  Digital Spy UK
  Bradley Walsh on why he swapped Law & Order: UK for BBC One's Sun Trap
  Digital Spy UK
  Bradley Walsh has revealed why he traded ITV's Law & Order: UK for new BBC One series Sun Trap. Walsh appears opposite Kayvan Novak in the comedy about two ex-journalists and their antics in Spain. Bradley Walsh and Kayvan Novack in BBC One's ...en meer »
  
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• Prisons chief urges fundamental review of Belmarsh jail

  19-05-2015 01:01
  
  Conditions in high-security unit, which holds some of the UK’s most dangerous prisoners, having negative impact, says Nick HardwickThe future of Britain’s only high-security “prison within a prison” at Belmarsh jail in south-east London has been questioned by the chief inspector of prisons.Nick Hardwick has called for a fundamental review of the specialist high-security unit in Belmarsh, which is the only prison in England and Wales to hold high-risk, category A prisoners separately. In
  
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• Cameron to publish EU referendum bill one day after Queen's speech

  19-05-2015 01:01
  
  Prime minister receives boost to hopes of pushing changes through EU with positive assessment of his renegotiation prospects by Open Europe thinktank David Cameron is to signal his determination to press ahead with the referendum on Britain’s European Union membership by publishing the parliamentary bill, which will pave the way for the vote, a day after the Queen’s speech next week.The prime minister, who will chair the first political cabinet of the new parliament on Tuesday, will try to r
  
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