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• New law offers hope for UK pubs - The Daily Star

  20-05-2015 23:07
  
  The Daily Star
  New law offers hope for UK pubs
  The Daily Star
  LONDON: Britain's traditional pubs are hoping a new law will galvanize the country's budding beer renaissance and save them from a steep crisis that is forcing dozens of premises to close every week. Cut-price competition from supermarkets, the smoking ...en meer »
  
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• No rule protected health students from undergoing vaginal probes for school

  20-05-2015 22:44
  
  As students sue Florida community college they say required them to undergo transvaginal ultrasounds, guidelines only say participation must be voluntaryThere are no guidelines barring medical programs from asking students to practice transvaginal ultrasounds on one another, it has emerged, after two unnamed students sued a Florida community college for allegedly forcing them to practice the invasive procedure on one another.The Joint Review Committee on Diagnostic Medical Sonography guidelines
  
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• No rule protected health students from undergoing vaginal probes for college

  20-05-2015 22:44
  
  As students sue Florida community college they say required them to undergo transvaginal ultrasounds, guidelines only say participation must be voluntaryThere are no guidelines barring medical programs from asking students to practice transvaginal ultrasounds on one another, it has emerged, after two unnamed students sued a Florida community college for allegedly forcing them to practice the invasive procedure on one another.The Joint Review Committee on Diagnostic Medical Sonography guidelines
  
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• There's a simple way to make sure bankers don't rig the markets again

  20-05-2015 20:37
  
  Barclays and the other fined banks will ensure there is no repeat, but traders will continue to have better information than their back-office policemanLife is looking up at Barclays, eh? The share price stands at a 15-month high, the new chairman promises more action, and one of these days the dividend might be lifted. What’s that? There’s a $2.4bn (£1.5bn) fine for rigging currency markets? Pah. It’s ancient history. Besides, it could have been worse.That, roughly speaking, was the
  
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• The moral of the gay wedding cake row: the law can’t create tolerance | Simon Jenkins

  20-05-2015 20:09
  
  This tale of patisserie and prejudice is a grim comment on Britain’s long and incompetent custodianship of Northern IrelandA Christian walks into a Muslim sign writer’s shop and orders a placard. He says it should carry a cartoon of the prophet and the slogan Muslims Go Home. The sign writer is deeply offended and says he cannot execute the order. The customer is outraged at the discrimination, is supported by the equality commission, sues, and the sign writer is fined £500 plus costs.
  
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• Iranian painter and women's rights activist on trial for insulting MPs

  20-05-2015 19:36
  
  Atena Farghadani is being held in Tehran’s Evin prison for her cartoons of Iran’s elite and for criticising plans to restrict contraception An Iranian painter and women’s rights campaigner is on trial in Tehran on charges of spreading propaganda against the ruling establishment.Atena Farghadani, who has spoken out against parliamentary plans to restrict access to contraception, appeared in court on Tuesday in connection with her activism as well as her art. The 29-year-old, described by Am
  
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• Letter: Jeremy McMullen obituary

  20-05-2015 18:37
  
  When Jeremy McMullen was the legal officer of the GMB union, he appeared in a case at the Employment Appeal Tribunal, where I was sitting as a lay member. Our presiding judge told us before we sat that he was an able advocate. Jeremy began by asking how he should address the tribunal. The judge, who had a good sense of humour, suggested that in this court Jeremy should call him “sir”, but if the judge were to appear in a court of Jeremy’s he would call him “brother”. “How’s that, b
  
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• PEP tops £500k at Dentons’ UKMEA practice

  20-05-2015 18:09 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Global firm releases bullish annual results, with net profit up 18%.
  
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• PEP tops £500k at Dentons’ EMEA practice

  20-05-2015 18:09 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Global firm releases bullish annual results, with net profit up 18%.
  
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• Belfast firm withdraws services in legal aid protest

  20-05-2015 16:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Leading Northern Ireland firm says repeated cuts are 'cynical and vicious onslaught'. 
  
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• Video raises concerns over Ukraine's treatment of Russian prisoners

  20-05-2015 15:32
  
  Release of footage of recently captured soldiers said to violate Geneva conventions. RFE/RL reportsA video showing the interrogation of alleged Russian servicemen captured in Ukraine has sparked concerns about the treatment of prisoners of war in the conflict. The footage of one of the two men captured in eastern Ukraine on Saturday appears to show him lying on a hospital bed identifying himself as serviceman Aleksandr Aleksandrov, who says he was part of a Russian special forces group.Related:
  
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• Trainee barred for faking legal qualifications

  20-05-2015 15:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Sanjeeva Camillus fabricated degree certificates, Solicitors Regulation Authority rules. 
  
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• James Rhodes judgment: quotes from autobiography detail pianist's ordeal

  20-05-2015 15:04
  
  Supreme court ruling describes how musician was abused and groomed in graphic extracts from book he was barred from publishingSeveral passages from James Rhodes’s autobiography, Instrumental, which is published next week, are quoted in the supreme court judgment that lifted an injunction barring him from publishing a full account of his life.The court described how Rhodes writes about being groomed and abused – or, in his own words, “used, fucked, broken, toyed with and violated” – fro
  
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• Irish Travellers’ win over Wetherspoon chips away at the ‘last acceptable racism’ | Michael Doherty

  20-05-2015 14:30
  
  A ruling against JD Wetherspoon for denying Travellers entry to a pub is a victory for those of us in the Traveller community who fight discrimination every dayThe Wetherspoon’s Coronet on Holloway Road in north London is a massive warehouse-style pub in the premises of a former cinema. Its single cavernous space is often a gathering place for football fans on their way to the nearby Arsenal Emirates stadium. When there isn’t a football match on, it’s a semi-permanent home for a largely Ir
  
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• ‘Named and shamed’ barrister to fight misconduct findings

  20-05-2015 13:51 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Bar Tribunals & Adjudication Service finds Birmingham public access barrister Tariq Rehman guilty of 11 breaches. 
  
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• Supreme Court overturns ban on musician’s autobiography

  20-05-2015 12:47 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Ruling involving concert pianist hailed as a victory for free speech.
  
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• Supreme Court overturns ban on James Rhodes autobiography

  20-05-2015 12:47 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Ruling on publication of concert pianist’s memoirs hailed as a victory for free speech.
  
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• Supreme Court overturns ban on autobiography

  20-05-2015 12:47 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Ruling on publication of concert pianist’s memoirs hailed as a victory for free speech.
  
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• Pianist James Rhodes wins right to publish autobiography telling of abuse

  20-05-2015 12:36
  
  Supreme court justices lift injunction barring publication of book in which concert musician discusses being repeatedly raped as a childA British performing artist who has been prevented from publishing his autobiography can be named after the UK supreme court lifted the injunction that had banned him from publishing a full account of his own life.The man who could be identified only as MLA during a year-long series of battles in the English courts is James Rhodes, the internationally renowned c
  
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• Equality law is destroying religious freedom, says top barrister - Catholic Herald Online

  20-05-2015 12:22
  Catholic Herald Online
  Equality law is destroying religious freedom, says top barrister
  Catholic Herald Online
  Equality law in Northern Ireland is being used to destroy individual freedom, a leading Catholic barrister has said. Following a legal ruling in Northern Ireland, in which a judge ruled that a bakery run by Christians discriminated against a gay ...en meer »
  
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• Unsecured creditors ‘unlikely’ to recover £658k from firm

  20-05-2015 11:18 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Staff not expected to be paid redundancy money from London litigation firm in administration.
  
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• Unsecured creditors ‘unlikely’ to recover £658k from failed firm

  20-05-2015 11:18 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Staff not expected to be paid redundancy money from London litigation firm in administration.
  
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• The ‘gay cake’ ruling is a victory for equality in Northern Ireland | Joshua Rozenberg

  20-05-2015 10:38
  
  The ruling against a Christian-owned bakery that refused to make a pro gay-marriage cake rightly shows public services must not discriminateThe Christian Institute, which funded Ashers Baking Company in the “gay cake” case, is “deeply disappointed” at losing. I’m not surprised. There is nothing wrong with fighting cases on social issues such as gay rights, abortion and assisted suicide. But Christian bodies that fund litigation of this sort may wonder whether fighting cases that are bo
  
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• Could Michael Gove become a liberal hero by reforming our prisons? | Ian Birrell

  20-05-2015 08:00
  
  High incarceration rates are expensive and ineffectual. Following the lead of the US, Gove is coming around to the absurdity of locking up minor miscreantsThe appointment of Michael Gove as justice secretary was among the more interesting appointments in David Cameron’s first all-Conservative cabinet. Attention has focused on his brief to scrap the Human Rights Act, which some suspect was a Conservative manifesto sop for the right to be negotiated away in coalition deals. Certainly this questi
  
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• Students sue Florida college for alleged forced vaginal probes

  20-05-2015 04:40
  
  Civil rights lawsuit claims probes were part of training in a medical diagnostic sonography class at community collegeTwo female college students said they were forced to endure almost weekly vaginal probes as part of a medical diagnostic sonography class at a Florida community college, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed in federal court.The lawsuit by the women, identified as Jane Doe I and Jane Doe II, accuses Valencia College in Orlando, Florida, of violating their right to free speech
  
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• Sexist law 'still in use in UK' - despite legislation to overturn it - Cambridge News

  20-05-2015 01:59
  
  Sexist law 'still in use in UK' - despite legislation to overturn it
  Cambridge News
  A Cambridge academic has discovered an archaic law which discriminates against women is still in use in UK courtrooms – despite parliament passing an act to ban it five years ago. Alysia Blackham, from Cambridge University's Faculty of Law, says the ...en meer »
  
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• Theresa May pledges £15m to keep mentally ill people out of police cells

  20-05-2015 01:01
  
  Home secretary to put cash into health facilities for 4,000 people a year detained under Mental Health Act and ban children being held
  The home secretary, Theresa May, is to pledge up to £15m of new funding to provide health-based alternatives for the 4,000 people a year who spend time in detention in police cells under the Mental Health Act.In her first speech since being reappointed home secretary, May will tell the Police Federation conference on Wednesday that a new policing and senten
  
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