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• Tech sector figures warn of hit from planned UK data law - Financial Times

  02-06-2015 19:55
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  Tech sector figures warn of hit from planned UK data law
  Financial Times
  The UK technology industry is already being hit by the “snooper's charter”, or government plans to allow greater surveillance of communications , industry figures claim. Two companies have announced they are relocating because of the proposed new ...en meer »
  
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• CIA sex abuse and torture went beyond Senate report disclosures, detainee says

  02-06-2015 18:16
  
  Majid Khan, who underwent ‘enhanced interrogation’, says authorities poured ice water on his genitals and hung him naked from a beam for daysThe US Central Intelligence Agency used a wider array of sexual abuse and other forms of torture than was disclosed in a Senate report last year, according to a Guantanamo Bay detainee turned government cooperating witness. Related: Rectal rehydration and broken limbs: the grisliest findings in the CIA torture reportContinue reading...
  
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• Bond Dickinson claims 20% profit rise

  02-06-2015 18:05 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Revenue up 7% as national firm continues to thrive after 2013 merger.
  
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• Peddling tall tales and myths – that’s a human right, isn’t it?

  02-06-2015 17:54
  
  From KFC for criminals, to hardcore porn for killers – dodgy stories about the Human Rights Act will always find a home in British newspapersHere’s a question they don’t often ask in polls: what has the Human Rights Act ever done to you? Victims of the Human Rights Act are pretty hard to come by, while myths about outrages perpetrated in its name are so widespread as to be collectible. Over the course of the past week I made it a bit of a hobby.There was the one about a suspect, besieged b
  
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• Expanding practice snaps up files of collapsed firm

  02-06-2015 15:42 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Express Solicitors now targeting further acqusitions helped by bank financing.
  
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• Let Irish media report MP's comments, Denis O'Brien lawyers tell court

  02-06-2015 14:45
  
  RTÉ says tycoon has made ‘spectacular climbdown’ after row over remarks made under parliamentary privilegeThe Irish mobile and media tycoon Denis O’Brien has said he never intended to gag a politician who used parliamentary privilege to make claims about his relationship with a bailed-out bank.
  Lawyers acting for Ireland’s second richest man told Ireland’s high court on Tuesday that the Irish Times and broadcaster RTÉ should be allowed to report what Catherine Murphy, an indep
  
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• Denis O'Brien never meant to gag Irish MP, tycoon's lawyers tell court

  02-06-2015 14:45
  
  RTÉ says Ireland’s second richest man has made ‘spectacular climbdown’ after row over remarks made under parliamentary privilegeIreland’s second richest man has retreated from his battle with the media over claims made in the Irish parliament about his relationship with a bailed-out bank.Lawyers for the telecoms and media tycoon Denis O’Brien told a court he never intended to gag a politician who used parliamentary privilege to suggest he had got preferential treatment from the former
  
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• Democracy in danger when one man exercises excessive private power

  02-06-2015 13:45
  
  Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole on the lessons of Denis O’Brien’s press gagFintan O’Toole’s Irish Times column today, in which he argues that “the definition of excessive private power is that it ceases to be private”, deserves as big an audience as possible.He is referring to the legal attempt by Ireland’s media tycoon, Denis O’Brien, to prevent light being shed on his banking arrangements. “It is the inevitable result of an individual having too much power. That indivi
  
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• Solicitor stole £600k from elderly clients

  02-06-2015 13:03 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Andrew Taylor, a respected member of the community in Greater Manchester, is jailed for four years.
  
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• No anti-father bias in family courts, research finds

  02-06-2015 12:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Men and women have similar success rates when applying to get access to their children in family courts, according to a study of 200 cases.
  
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• Rape and sexual offences to be treated as seriously as terror threats, police say

  02-06-2015 12:15
  
  Pledge comes after report for Metropolitan police and CPS found victims being failed by under-resourced police and prosecutorsPolice have pledged to treat rape and sexual offences as seriously as threats to national security after a new report found that rape victims were being failed by a lack of resources among police and prosecutors.The review was conducted by Elish Angiolini for the Metropolitan police and CPS. It said the government must provide more resources to help deal with an increase
  
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• Rape victims failed by under-resourced police and prosecutors, report finds

  02-06-2015 11:05
  
  Review by Elish Angiolini for Met police and CPS makes 46 recommendations and calls for additional resources to match rhetoricRape victims are being failed by a lack of resources among police and prosecutors, a new report has found.The review was conducted by Elish Angiolini for the Metropolitan police and CPS. It said the government must provide more resources to help deal with an increase in complaints of rape and sexual violence. Continue reading...
  
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• University of Law changes hands again

  02-06-2015 10:42 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Netherlands-based holding company snaps up institution for undisclosed sum.
  
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• Tobacco giants vow to fight Canadian judgment handing C$15bn to smokers

  02-06-2015 10:14
  
  Class action suit plaintiffs win ‘historic’ damages as Quebec superior court reaches decision after 17-year legal fightThree tobacco companies are appealing against a “historic” decision by a Canadian court to award smokers C$15.6bn (£8.2bn) in damages.Quebec Superior Court Justice Brian Riordan said the companies had put profits before the health of their customers, as he issued his long-awaited decision in what is thought to be Canada’s largest class-action lawsuit.Related: If
  
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• LGBT people suffer widespread violent abuse, discrimination: new UN report

  02-06-2015 06:56
  
  The report cites beatings, jailings and murder and says despite actions to reduce the abuse, human rights violations based on sexual orientation continueThe United Nations human rights chief has said in a new report that lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people are victims of “pervasive violent abuse, harassment and discrimination” in all regions of the world and cites hundreds of hate-related killings.The high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Raad al-Hussein,
  
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• Iranians warn that distrust could replace sanctions as obstacle to business

  02-06-2015 06:00
  
  Returning expats eager to invest in their homeland run up against a business culture ravaged by the effects of sanctions and decades of international isolation With relatives and friends returning to Tehran in search of opportunities ahead of the expected lifting of economic sanctions, Haj Hossein holds court at his Grand Bazaar shop and doles out business advice. He warns his cousins, nephews and old acquaintances returning from abroad about corrupt judges and scheming entrepreneurs. “I tell
  
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• David Cameron prepared to break with Europe on human rights

  02-06-2015 01:01
  
  ‘Nuclear option’ on table if Strasbourg rejects UK plan as prime minister seeks right to veto European court of human rights judgments David Cameron is to keep open the “nuclear option” of withdrawing from the European convention on human rights.The prime minister is prepared to break with the convention, drawn up by British lawyers in the wake of the second world war, if the Strasbourg-based court refuses to accept reforms that are designed to break the link with the European court of h
  
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