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• Lawyer says proposed UK immigration laws 'harsh' - Jamaica Observer

  21-05-2015 23:38
  
  Jamaica Observer
  Lawyer says proposed UK immigration laws 'harsh'
  Jamaica Observer
  KINGSTON, Jamaica – British Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to propose new laws to control immigration on Thursday. Media reports are that his proposal is seeking to give police the power to seize wages earned by illegal immigrants.
  
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• Strasbourg court has backed off over rights rulings, says Jack Straw

  21-05-2015 19:41
  
  Straw, previously critical of ECHR’s ‘ever-widening’ judicial reach, says court has had an ‘outbreak of common sense’The European court of human rights has backed off over prisoner voting rights and is no longer interfering in British democracy, Labour’s former home secretary Jack Straw has said.In a characteristically blunt intervention in the human rights debate, the recently retired MP said the Strasbourg court had abandoned its legal “land grab” and had an “outbreak of comm
  
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• NSA may be forced to pause collection of bulk US phone records

  21-05-2015 17:52
  
  Surveillance opponents plan further attempts on Thursday to block renewal of NSA’s current authority to collect Americans’ phone records in bulkThe US National Security Agency faces at least a temporary pause in its ability to collect bulk American phone records amid a stand-off on Capitol Hill over renewal of the Patriot Act.Opponents of the bulk collection of telephone records are planning further procedural attempts to block it over the next 48 hours as a late-night speaking marathon left
  
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• NSA faces surveillance disruption after Rand Paul speech delays Patriot Act vote

  21-05-2015 17:52
  
  Surveillance opponents plan further attempts on Thursday to block renewal of NSA’s current authority to collect Americans’ phone records in bulkThe US National Security Agency faces at least a temporary pause in its ability to collect bulk digital data amid a stand-off on Capitol Hill over renewal of the Patriot Act.Opponents of the bulk collection of telephone records are planning further procedural attempts to block it over the next 48 hours as a late-night speaking marathon left virtually
  
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• NSA faces lapse in its authority to collect bulk US phone records

  21-05-2015 17:52
  
  Surveillance opponents plan further attempts on Thursday to block renewal of NSA’s current authority to collect Americans’ phone records in bulkThe US National Security Agency faces at least a temporary pause in its ability to collect bulk American phone records amid a stand-off on Capitol Hill over renewal of the Patriot Act.Opponents of the bulk collection of telephone records are planning further procedural attempts to block it over the next 48 hours as a late-night speaking marathon left
  
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• Faults in government immigration bill

  21-05-2015 17:44 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Government policy on immigration, to be included in next week’s Queen’s Speech, will increase the regulatory burden on employers for policing the system.
  
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• Lawyers drafted in to manage charity after inquiry

  21-05-2015 17:23 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Charity Commission says Legal Action has not complied with orders for transparency.
  
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• Website organises crowdfunding for ‘public interest’ litigation

  21-05-2015 16:09 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  CrowdJustice aims to generate funds for cases that ‘capture the public imagination’.
  
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• Bring back self-defence classes for women – it’s the feminist thing to do | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

  21-05-2015 15:56
  
  Hearing that a female kickboxer defeated her attacker makes me wonder why self-defence is so outmoded. It certainly helped me when I needed it mostWhat woman didn’t feel like punching the air this week when they read about the female kickboxer who rendered a sex attacker unconscious by placing his head in a scissor-grip with her legs after having reportedly told him: “Go fuck yourself”? To quote the song from Chicago, Cell Block Tango: he had it coming.The woman, who has chosen to remain a
  
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• Freshfields hires Aviva ‘transformer’ to head Manchester move

  21-05-2015 15:52 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The legal and services business centre in Manchester will open in the second half of 2015.
  
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• Freshfields hires Aviva ‘transformer’ for Manchester move

  21-05-2015 15:52 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The legal and services business centre in Manchester will open in the second half of 2015 in a move expected to involve job losses. 
  
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• Hogan Lovells hikes wages to match Slaughters

  21-05-2015 15:27 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  City firm bumps up pay for newly qualified lawyers by 7.5% to £70,000.
  
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• Cameron's immigration plans are absurd in face of latest figures

  21-05-2015 14:32
  
  A concerted drive to enforce existing laws might yield more dividends than introducing yet more ‘hostile’ measures
  The latest official figures showing a near-record level of net migration to the UK confirm that Britain remains, as it has done for the last 20 years, a country of high migration.
  Most of the latest increase to 318,000 is fuelled by a 70,000-strong rise in the numbers coming to work in Britain’s expanding economy from both within and outside Europe.Continue reading...
  
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• Legal background is ticket to seat in new parliament

  21-05-2015 14:13 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Almost one-fifth of members have either studied or practised law. 
  
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• Sexual assault is an epidemic. Only the most committed apologist can deny it | Jessica Valenti

  21-05-2015 13:30
  
  Yet another study reports that 1 in 5 women will be assaulted while attending university. But some people don’t want to see the truthFor as long as college rape has been in the spotlight, there have been detractors insisting that the prevalence and severity of sexual violence on campus isn’t really that bad or that the steps taken to stop sexual assault are too extreme. This week, though, a study out of Brown University should have those people eating crow. Should.The study, published in the
  
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• Trinity Mirror phone hacking awards are astonishingly large

  21-05-2015 13:07
  
  All eight received far more than Max Mosley for his privacy action And so it has come to pass. Trinity Mirror has suffered a punishing financial blow for the activities of staff who covertly interceprted voicemail messages and it is likely to suffer further blows in the near future.The publisher of the Daily and Sunday Mirror and Sunday People had been hoping that the hacking victims would receive much smaller awards.Continue reading...
  
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• Forex fines likely to trigger further litigation against banks

  21-05-2015 12:47 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Commercial lawyers said guilty plea by four major banks for rigging the forex market could make it easier for further claims against banks.
  
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• Criminal bar votes overwhelmingly for direct action

  21-05-2015 12:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Criminal Bar Association asked its 4,000 members if they supported action over new duty provider scheme.
  
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• Barristers threaten to walk out over legal aid cuts

  21-05-2015 11:37
  
  Criminal barristers vote overwhelming in favour of direct action in response to government proposals to slash legal aid budgetCriminal barristers are threatening mass walkouts aimed at closing down the courts in protest against government cuts to legal aid.In an overwhelming show of support for confrontation with the Ministry of Justice, the 4,000-strong membership of the Criminal Bar Association has voted to back direct action. Continue reading...
  
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• Phone-hacking victims: lives 'torn apart' by decade of mistrust and paranoia

  21-05-2015 11:22
  
  Testimony over three-week trial revealed full impact of tabloid intrusion on private lives of celebrities, their families and friends
  In three weeks of graphic testimony before the high court in London, a small cast of television stars told how their personal lives had been torn apart by a decade of mistrust, paranoia and intense tabloid scrutiny. Related: Daily Mirror owners ordered to pay £1.2m to celebrity phone-hacking victimsRelated: Mirror's phone hacking made 'News of the World look
  
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• Mirror phone-hacking drove celebrities to drink, paranoia and 'hell'

  21-05-2015 11:22
  
  Testimony over three-week trial revealed full impact of tabloid intrusion on private lives of celebrities, their families and friendsIn three weeks of graphic testimony before the high court in London, a small cast of television stars told how their personal lives had been torn apart by a decade of mistrust, paranoia and intense tabloid scrutiny.Continue reading...
  
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• Daily Mirror owners ordered to pay £1.2m to celebrity phone-hacking victims

  21-05-2015 11:12
  
  High court judge orders Trinity Mirror to compensate Sadie Frost, Paul Gascoigne and others for suffering caused by intrusions
  The publisher of the Daily and Sunday Mirror has been ordered to pay £1.2m in compensation to eight phone-hacking victims, including the actor Sadie Frost and the former footballer Paul Gascoigne. Continue reading...
  
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• Daily Mirror owners must pay £1.2m to celebrity phone-hacking victims

  21-05-2015 11:12
  
  High court judge orders Trinity Mirror to compensate Sadie Frost, Paul Gascoigne and others for suffering caused by intrusionsThe publisher of the Daily and Sunday Mirror has been ordered to pay £1.2m in compensation to eight phone-hacking victims, including the actor Sadie Frost and the former footballer Paul Gascoigne.Frost was awarded £260,250 in what is believed to be the single biggest privacy damages payout since the phone-hacking scandal broke in 2010. Related: Mirror phone-ha
  
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• Temporary and part-time jobs surge promotes inequality, says OECD

  21-05-2015 11:00
  
  In the UK, non-standard work including zero-hours contracts accounted for all net jobs growth since 1995A surge in self-employment and temporary or part-time jobs over the past two decades has been a key factor behind the rise in inequality in the world’s industrialised countries, according to a major new study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.The Paris-based club, which has been a driving force in arguing that increasing inequality jeopardises economic growth, say
  
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• The world's best universities for law: Cambridge and Oxford trump UK competition - City A.M.

  21-05-2015 10:57
  
  City A.M.
  The world's best universities for law: Cambridge and Oxford trump UK competition
  City A.M.
  University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge was named the second-best university in the world for law. (Source: Getty). The University of Cambridge was named the second-best university in the world for law. (Source: Getty). More Britons would ...
  
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• Whiplash panel entry rules ‘anti-competitive’

  21-05-2015 10:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  MedCo seeking advice on eligibility criteria after biggest providers register multiple applications.
  
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• MedCo concerned whiplash panel entry rules ‘anti-competitive’

  21-05-2015 10:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Organisation seeking advice on eligibility criteria after biggest providers register multiple applications.
  
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• Cameron's immigration bill to include crackdown on illegal workers

  21-05-2015 10:22
  
  David Cameron to promise bill in Queen’s speech that will make ‘Britain a less attractive place to come and work illegally’David Cameron will try to brush off embarrassing net migration figures on Thursday by announcing details of a new immigration bill to be included in the Queen’s speech, which will propose a new criminal offence of illegal working that will allow police to seize the wages of anyone employed unlawfully.If you have uncontrolled immigration, you have uncontrolled pressur
  
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• Working on death row: 'We're all going to die – but we do choose whether to kill'

  21-05-2015 09:45
  
  Richard Bourke, who gave up a career in Melbourne to work with death penalty cases in Louisiana, says in his TEDx talk that the work has moments of beautyAustralian lawyer Richard Bourke, who works to save prisoners from death row in the US, has told of moments of spirituality, dignity and beauty in some of the toughest legal cases.
  The former Melbourne lawyer, currently the director of the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center, returned to Australia to speak to audiences at TEDxSydneyabout his wo
  
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• Melbourne death-row lawyer working in the US praises Australian volunteers

  21-05-2015 09:45
  
  Richard Bourke, who gave up a career at the Melbourne bar to work with death penalty cases in Louisiana, says the work could not be done without volunteersAustralian lawyer Richard Bourke, who works to save prisoners from death row in the US, has told of moments of spirituality, dignity and beauty in some of the toughest legal cases.The former Melbourne lawyer, currently the director of the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center, returned to Australia to speak to audiences at TEDxSydneyabout his wo
  
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• Irish Times sues the British Times over trademark dispute

  21-05-2015 09:21
  
  It objects to Rupert Murdoch’s launch of online paper called The Times IrelandThe Irish Times has launched a legal action against Times Newspapers over the intention by Rupert Murdoch’s UK company to publish an online newspaper called The Times Ireland.The Irish Times says the use of the title, which it claims is due to be launched “imminently”, amounts to a breach of its trademark and therefore infringes its copyright. Continue reading...
  
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• Please, Michael Gove, solve the crisis in our prisons | Denis MacShane

  21-05-2015 09:00
  
  As justice secretary, I hope you’ll listen to me, an ex-MP who did time in Belmarsh. It’s clear the mass incarceration policy of the last 20 years has failedDear Michael Gove,One of the pleasant surprises I got while banged up in Belmarsh was a letter from you expressing sympathy and solidarity. Like many MPs who know the truth of the events that led me to prison, and the double standards of one MP and the then director of public prosecutions, you extended a hand of friendship. This was base
  
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• Cameron's immigration bill to include crackdown on illegal foreign workers

  21-05-2015 08:46
  
  David Cameron to promise bill in Queen’s speech that will make ‘Britain a less attractive place to come and work illegally’David Cameron will try to brush off embarrassing net migration figures on Thursday by announcing details of a new immigration bill to be included in the Queen’s speech, which will propose a new criminal offence of illegal working that will allow police to seize the wages of anyone employed unlawfully.If you have uncontrolled immigration, you have uncontrolled pressur
  
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• Ugandan singer faces 10 years in jail for risqué pop video

  21-05-2015 07:00
  
  Jemimah Kansiime is the first to be prosecuted under the country’s strict new anti-pornography laws after making a scantily-clad video to promote her new singleConservative politicians in Uganda say that a music video by singer Jemimah Kansiime has broken the country’s tough new anti-pornography laws. The 21-year-old has already spent five weeks in jail for appearing in a foam-covered bikini in the video, promoting her single, Ensolo Yange.Related: Confusion over Uganda's 'miniskirt ban' lea
  
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• The Australian legal centre taking law into its own hands for asylum seekers

  21-05-2015 06:08
  
  The Refugee Advice and Casework Service lost 85% of its funding in 2014 but found new ways to raise money. Now it’s rewriting the book on legal aidJulia Steward’s legal clients are queuing out the door well before she arrives at the office. It’s not really the kind of office you’d expect. Babies are crying, children are running around, and families are gathering to eat and talk. This is what legal aid services have become for the Refugee Advice and Casework Service (Racs). The community
  
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• NSW legal centre takes the law into its own hands for asylum seekers

  21-05-2015 06:08
  
  Refugee Advice and Casework Service lost 85% of its government funding in 2013 but found new ways to raise money and is rewriting the book on how legal aid is deliveredJulia Steward’s legal clients are queuing out the door well before she arrives at the office. It’s not really the kind of office you’d expect. Babies are crying, children are running around, and families are gathering to eat and talk. This is what legal aid services have become for the Refugee Advice and Casework Service (Ra
  
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• BHP Billiton fined US$25m for gift trips to Beijing Olympics for foreign officials

  21-05-2015 02:43
  
  US Securities and Exchange Commission says mining giant violated US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act when it paid for government officials to attend GamesMining giant BHP Billiton has been hit with a US$25m ($32m) fine for breaches of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by treating foreign officials to trips to the 2008 Beijing Olympics.The Securities and Exchange Commission in the US said BHP paid for travel and luxury hotel accommodation for 60 government officials and their spouses, mostly from Af
  
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• Pinochet-era secret police chief’s sentence now 505 years in Chilean jail

  21-05-2015 02:32
  
  Manuel Contreras, who ran torture centres in which hundreds were killed, and who was already serving 490-year sentence, given additional 15 years’ jailThe Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s former secret police chief, already serving 490 years in prison for human rights violations, was handed an additional 15-year sentence on Wednesday. Manuel Contreras was the head of operations at the Dina intelligence service, which ran torture centres where hundreds of people were killed. Continue readi
  
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