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• 30 years on death row and many appeals later, 'deck is always stacked against you'

  29-05-2015 19:38
  
  Lester Bower will be the second-longest tenured Texas inmate to be put to death in modern era but will a seventh stay of execution save him?Lester Bower made for an unlikely mass murderer. At the time when four men were shot dead in an aircraft hanger near Dallas, Bower was a 35-year-old, college-educated, married father of two who made a comfortable living as a chemicals salesman and did not have a criminal record. Related: Supreme court asks if execution drugs are like being 'burned alive at t
  
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• Media owner Denis O’Brien accused of trying to gag Irish parliament

  29-05-2015 16:51
  
  Lawyers for Independent media group billionaire threaten Irish broadcasters over reporting of questions raised in Dail about his finances Ireland’s leading media owner and one of the country’s richest men has been accused of gagging free speech and even parliamentary privilege over his attempt to silence members of the Dáil, raising issues about his finances.
  Denis O’Brien, the major shareholder in Ireland’s Independent News and Media Group, won an injunction that his lawyers argu
  
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• Serious Fraud Office says it is looking at material relating to Fifa allegations

  29-05-2015 15:42
  
  SFO has said it is prepared to assist international investigations but has not launched a criminal probe into alleged corrupt payments to officialsBritain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has said it is actively assessing material relating to alleged corrupt payments to officials connected to Fifa.There had been suggestions that British authorities could open up a new front in the global investigations into world football’s governing body after the US Department of Justice issued a 47-count indi
  
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• Serious Fraud Office looking at material relating to Fifa allegations

  29-05-2015 15:42
  
  SFO says it is prepared to assist international inquiries but has not launched a criminal investigation into alleged corrupt payments to officialsBritain’s Serious Fraud Office has said it is actively assessing material relating to alleged corrupt payments to officials connected to Fifa.There had been suggestions that British authorities could open up a new front in the global investigations into world football’s governing body after the US Department of Justice issued a 47-count indictment
  
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• Ex-City solicitor becomes Gove aide

  29-05-2015 15:14 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Tory rising star Robert Jenrick MP appointed parliamentary private secretary. 
  
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• US state adopts ABS model

  29-05-2015 14:57 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lawyers and limited license legal technicians can jointly own a law firm in Washington.
  
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• For Loretta Lynch, Fifa is just the latest in a string of tough targets

  29-05-2015 12:00
  
  The US attorney general has been winning through in difficult situations all her life, building her reputation by going after some of the most difficult to catch criminals during her time in the US attorney’s office in New YorkA few hours after the stunning arrests of Fifa officials at a five-star Zurich hotel early on Wednesday, the spotlight of the world’s media pivoted to an office thousands of miles away in Brooklyn.
  Everyone was impatient to hear from the woman, the daughter of a Baptis
  
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• Family and children

  29-05-2015 11:59
  
  Ex parte wardship proceedings were brought in respect of four children, all British citizens, as there were reasonable grounds for believing that the entire family had left the UK to join Islamic State in Syria.
  
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• IPO to value Gateley at £100m

  29-05-2015 11:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Seven top partners will share £20m, according to a stock exchange filing today.
  
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• LAA tweaks billing system after criticism

  29-05-2015 11:11 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal Aid Agency will be making a series of improvements to its client cost and management system.
  
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• Suge Knight Lawyer Wants Murder Case Dismissed - Yahoo News UK

  29-05-2015 10:35
  
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  Suge Knight Lawyer Wants Murder Case Dismissed
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  Marion "Suge" Knight's lawyer has argued that a murder case against him should be dismissed because a key witness refused to identify him in court. The Death Row Records co-founder is accused of deliberately running over Terry Carter, 55, and Cle "Bone ...en meer »
  
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• Bleak House, eat your heart out. Hancock v Rinehart – that's real drama

  29-05-2015 10:02
  
  The defeat of Gina Rinehart by her children, Bianca and John, has upset the traditional order of legal firepower and was worthy of a primetime slotAs Justice Paul Brereton in the NSW Supreme Court has amply demonstrated, you can’t necessarily trust a trustee, particularly one with bottomless pockets who is as ferocious and tenacious as Gina Rinehart. Related: Gina Rinehart's eldest daughter Bianca made trustee of $4bn trust fund A replacement trustee will therefore need to be sufficiently robu
  
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• Ireland's media silenced over MP's speech about Denis O'Brien

  29-05-2015 09:20
  
  Injunction prevents newspapers and radio stations from reporting claims made in Ireland’s parliament about media owner’s banking affairs I cannot recall having previously started a blogpost by reporting a speech to the Irish parliament. But please stick with me on this.Catherine Murphy, an Independent TD (MP), yesterday spoke about the relationship between Ireland’s leading media owner, Denis O’Brien, and the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC), the former Anglo Irish Bank.“We are
  
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• Smoking ban 'reduced annual rate of child respiratory problems by 11,000'

  29-05-2015 01:01
  
  Researchers say introduction of UK’s smoke-free legislation in 2007 was followed by immediate 3.5% drop in admissions among under-15s, saving the health service £17m a year
  Banning smoking in public places in England helped cut the number of children being admitted to hospital with respiratory infections by about 11,000 a year, researchers have said. The introduction of smoke-free legislation in 2007 was followed by an immediate 3.5% drop in admissions among under-15s. The biggest fall, of ne
  
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