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• Lawyer: Confinement of chimps for research akin to slavery - Yahoo News UK

  27-05-2015 22:17
  
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  Lawyer: Confinement of chimps for research akin to slavery
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  NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer seeking to free two chimpanzees from a state university told a judge Wednesday that their confinement for research purposes is akin to slavery, the involuntary detention of mentally ill people and imprisonment. Steven Wise, an ...en meer »
  
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• Law 'more Johnny English than 007' - Belfast Telegraph

  27-05-2015 22:10
  
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  Law 'more Johnny English than 007'
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  Actor Jude Law has joked that he would make a better Johnny English than James Bond, following his stint as a secret agent in Spy. Also in this Section. Bono in tribute to tour manager · Florence moves on after 'breakdown' · Capaldi to visit 'fabled ...en meer »
  
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• Wide-ranging snooper's charter to extend powers of security services

  27-05-2015 21:10
  
  Trade union funding also to be curbed by ‘opt in’ system whereby union members are to chose to pay rather than chose not to pay political levyDavid Cameron is to use the Tories’ unexpected parliamentary majority to press ahead with a “turbo-charged” version of the snooper’s charter that will extend the powers of the security services in response to the debate that followed surveillance disclosures by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.In a surprise move, the government is to introduce
  
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• The Guardian view on the Fifa arrests: football’s game-changer | Editorial

  27-05-2015 20:55
  
  Sepp Blatter’s corrupt era cannot continue after the raids in Zurich and Miami. Either Blatter goes or Fifa collapses – perhaps bothIt was the start of the ugliest day in the history of the beautiful game. The choreography of the arrests brought to mind the climactic baptism scene in The Godfather, except that on this occasion it was the mafia that was on the receiving end. The victims had arrived, as they always do, travelling first-class. As usual they had checked into a grand five-star ho
  
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• Metamorph vows to buy 60 high street firms

  27-05-2015 19:55 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Consolidator is backed by Assure Law, which last year rescued Manchester firm Linder Myers.
  
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• Consolidator vows to buy 60 high street firms

  27-05-2015 19:55 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Metamorph Law is backed by Assure Law, which last year rescued Manchester firm Linder Myers.
  
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• Health law court case winner could be political loser - Yahoo News UK

  27-05-2015 19:54
  
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  Health law court case winner could be political loser
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  WASHINGTON (AP) — The party that wins the impending Supreme Court decision on President Barack Obama's health care law could be the political loser. If the Republican-backed challenge to the law's subsidies for lower-earning Americans prevails, the ...en meer »
  
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• Scottish parliament rejects assisted suicide law

  27-05-2015 19:41
  
  MSPs vote 82-36 against bill that proposed those with terminal illnesses could seek help of doctor to end their lives, after deeply personal debateThe Scottish parliament has voted to reject legislation on assisted suicide following a heartfelt and at times deeply personal debate on Wednesday, carried out in the shadow of the late MSP Margo MacDonald who initiated the bill before her death last year.MSPs voted by 82 to 36 against the general principles of the assisted suicide (Scotland) bill. It
  
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• Scottish parliament rejects assisted dying law

  27-05-2015 19:41
  
  MSPs vote 82-36 against bill that proposed those with terminal illnesses could seek help of doctor to end their lives, after deeply personal debateThe Scottish parliament has voted to reject legislation on assisted dying following a heartfelt and at times deeply personal debate on Wednesday, carried out in the shadow of the late MSP Margo MacDonald, who initiated the bill before her death last year.MSPs voted by 82 to 36 against the general principles of the assisted suicide (Scotland) bill. It
  
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• Lawsuit against El Salvador mining ban highlights free trade pitfalls

  27-05-2015 19:16
  
  Mining company Pacific Rim, now owned by OceanaGold, is suing El Salvador for halting mining within its borders. A decision by an international trade tribunal could determine whether mining resumesEl Salvador is an impoverished country, but its citizens live above riches: the country has an estimated 1.4m ounces of gold buried underground, as well as silver and copper. It may be surprising, then, that no mining is allowed. In 2008, after mining operations polluted the water supply in San Sebasti
  
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• Appeals court strikes down key abortion restriction in Arkansas

  27-05-2015 19:12
  
  The court ruled Wednesday it was inappropriate to ban most abortions after the 12th week of pregnancy in one of the nation’s strictest states for abortionA federal appeals court struck down a key abortion restriction in Arkansas on Wednesday, agreeing with a lower court judge that it was inappropriate to ban most abortions after the 12th week of pregnancy if a doctor can detect a fetal heartbeat.The decision from the St Louis-based eighth US Circuit Court of Appeals hinged on what’s called t
  
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• Four out of ten divorce petitions flawed

  27-05-2015 19:04 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Solicitors told to conduct checks as Bury St Edmunds centre gears up to handle 40% of all divorce work in England and Wales.
  
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• Four out of 10 divorce petitions flawed

  27-05-2015 19:04 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Solicitors told to conduct checks as Bury St Edmunds centre gears up to handle 40% of all divorce work in England and Wales.
  
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• Northern Ireland barristers withdraw services in legal aid protest

  27-05-2015 18:23 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Justice minister David Ford said he was surprised and disappointed by the Criminal Bar Association’s decision.
  
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• MoJ accelerates court Wi-Fi

  27-05-2015 18:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Wi-Fi will be available in all magistrates’ and Crown courts by October – after 18 months of work.
  
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• David Cameron packs plenty into his one-party Queen's speech

  27-05-2015 17:57
  
  Polls led the Conservative party to plan for coalition negotiations, so this Queen’s speech is not quite the one its leadership anticipated This may be the Queen’s speech that David Cameron never planned, or entirely hoped, to pass to Her Majesty. He largely regarded the Conservative manifesto as an opening negotiating bid with the Liberal Democrats ahead of inevitable coalition talks with Nick Clegg.Now the Lib Dems are dispatched to the political wilderness, Cameron suddenly finds himself
  
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• Court dismisses Yemeni claim of German complicity in drone killings

  27-05-2015 17:57
  
  Judge says German government not obliged to prohibit US from using Ramstein airbase for execution of drone attacksA court in Cologne has dismissed a claim brought by three Yemenis accusing the German government of complicity in the deaths of civilians for allowing the US to relay drone data via Ramstein airbase.In a groundbreaking case brought by Yemenis who lost relatives in a 2012 attack on their village, the claimants argued that it would not have been possible to fly drones over Yemen withou
  
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• Court dismisses claim of German complicity in Yemeni drone killings

  27-05-2015 17:57
  
  Judge says German government not obliged to prohibit US from using Ramstein airbase for relaying drone control signalling but allows campaigners to appealA court in Cologne has dismissed a claim brought by three Yemenis accusing the German government of complicity in the deaths of civilians for allowing the US to relay drone data via Ramstein airbase.In a groundbreaking case brought by Yemenis who lost relatives in a 2012 attack on their village, the claimants argued that it would not have been
  
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• Legal battle over royal house of Mysore, and one of India's great fortunes

  27-05-2015 15:51
  
  On Thursday the widow of the late maharaja will crown a new king – but his nephew is preparing his own legal challenge to claim the £8bn estateThe fortune is one of the greatest on earth – the legacy of India’s richest princes, which tens of thousands have died in battle to protect.Now, however, it will be a battery of lawyers who will defend the palaces, fortresses, jewels, crowns, paintings and the vast domains of the royal house of Mysore, once an independent kingdom that was founded m
  
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• Government pauses for thought on human rights

  27-05-2015 15:48 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Government will ‘bring forward proposals’ for a British bill of rights, Queen’s speech announces. 
  
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• UK outlines new law to push through BoE's reform plans - Yahoo Finance UK

  27-05-2015 15:38
  
  UK outlines new law to push through BoE's reform plans
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  Bank of England Governor Mark Carney speaks during the bank's quarterly inflation report news conference at the Bank of England in London May 13, 2015. REUTERS/Matt Dunham/pool. Related Stories. UPDATE 1-Bank of England cuts growth outlook, ...en meer »
  
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• UK outlines new law to push through BoE's reform plans - Reuters UK

  27-05-2015 15:28
  
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  UK outlines new law to push through BoE's reform plans
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  LONDON Britain outlined new legislation on Wednesday that will allow the Bank of England to complete its reforms under Governor Mark Carney, including plans to reduce the number of monetary policy meetings each year. The new Conservative ...en meer »
  
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• Threat to exit human rights convention must be dropped, Tories tell Cameron

  27-05-2015 15:26
  
  Senior party figures say talk of ECHR withdrawal is ‘deeply offensive’, as delay to repeal of Human Rights Act draws spotlight away from Queen’s speech Senior Tories are telling David Cameron he must abandon a “deeply offensive” threat to withdraw from the European convention on human rights if he is to win support for his plans to repeal the Human Rights Act.As the government confirmed in the Queen’s speech that it had put on hold plans to replace the act with a British bill of righ
  
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• UK plans law to boost oil, gas regulator powers, control onshore wind - Platts

  27-05-2015 14:16
  UK plans law to boost oil, gas regulator powers, control onshore wind
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  The UK's new Conservative government is planning an energy bill to set up the new Oil and Gas Authority with the powers it needs to become a "robust, independent and effective regulator" and to give local communities the final say on wind farm ...
  
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• Jeffrey Spector deserved better than our cruel law on assisted dying | Charles Falconer

  27-05-2015 14:12
  
  To avoid incriminating his family a British father died hundreds of miles from home, months before he was ready. It’s time for legal reformThe House of Lords is balloting this evening on private members’ bills for this parliamentary session. I have once again submitted an assisted dying bill to the ballot because we cannot continue to deny terminally ill people the dignity and choice they are entitled to at the end of their life.Jeffrey Spector’s case is yet another example of the cruelty
  
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• SRA warns on exit strategies after solicitors fined

  27-05-2015 13:06 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Five solicitors penalised in April for not following the correct procedure to close down their businesses.
  
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• Cameron set to delay plans to scrap Human Rights Act

  27-05-2015 09:54
  
  Prime minister expected to leave controversial proposals out of Queen’s speech and announce wider consultation on British bill of rights pledgeDavid Cameron will present plans for an EU referendum and Scottish devolution in his first Conservative Queen’s speech but is expected to delay controversial proposals to abolish the Human Rights Act.The prime minister was facing criticism from some of his own backbenchers, many in the judiciary, as well as Labour, the SNP and his former deputy prime
  
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• The Sun attacks David Cameron over British bill of rights delay

  27-05-2015 09:28
  
  20 days on from urging readers to vote Tory, the paper turns on the party leaderToday’s Queen’s Speech “will not include controversial legislation to replace the human rights act with a British bill of rights”, reports the Daily Telegraph.It says the decision to announce a consultation on the issue instead follows criticism for senior Tories over the plans, which the Sun reminds us were a Tory manifesto pledge.“The Tories have all the evidence they need. It’s here, on these pages. Th
  
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• Society fears for legal professional privilege

  27-05-2015 09:25 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society president voices concerns over Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act and human rights reform.
  
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• Society fears for legal profession privilege

  27-05-2015 09:25 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society president voiced concerns over Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act and human rights reform.
  
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• Queen's speech: civil liberties under threat, warns Nick Clegg

  27-05-2015 08:52
  
  Former Lib Dem leader tries to rally bruised party with pledge to defend human rights as Tories go it alone with Queen’s speech for the first time since 1996
  Nick Clegg will on Wednesday emerge from the disaster of the general election to warn MPs that Britain’s civil liberties hang in the balance, promising to fight measures expected in the Queen’s speech that may compromise Britain’s commitment to the European convention on human rights.Clegg has said nothing in public since he resigne
  
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• Queen's speech 2015: a bill-by-bill guide to the next parliament

  27-05-2015 08:32
  
  A slim majority of 12 is still enough for the Conservative government to pursue its manifesto policies and some of the bills that failed under the coalitionWednesday’s state opening of parliament will mark the first day of the new parliamentary year. The Queen will read a speech written by the new Conservative government, setting out its agenda for the coming session.Related: Restricted franchise in EU referendum would make a mockery of democracy | LettersContinue reading...
  
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• Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories review – from Lady Chatterley to Christine Keeler and the Great Train Robbery

  27-05-2015 07:30
  
  Thomas Grant’s compelling portrait details the heroic achievements of a supreme criminal barristerThe doyen of the English criminal bar, Jeremy Hutchinson, turned 100 on 28 March. Still a spry and self-sufficient figure, his centenary has been marked by publication of a study of 14 eminent cases in which he was briefed for the defence. Space limitations have excluded several fascinating cases: Hutchinson defended the Great Train Robber Charlie Wilson, the corrupt Labour leader of Newcastle cou
  
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