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• Back from the dead: US officials to ask secret court to revive NSA surveillance

  03-06-2015 20:59
  
  Obama administration sees unconventional legal circumstance as means to temporarily reinstate bulk collection using same law that banned practiceThe Obama administration intends to use part of a law banning the bulk collection of US phone records to temporarily restart the bulk collection of US phone records.US officials confirmed to the Guardian that in the coming days they will ask a secret surveillance court to revive the program – deemed illegal by a federal appeals court – all in the na
  
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• Charles Kennedy stood up for British Guantánamo detainees | Letters from Louise Christian and Janet Davies

  03-06-2015 20:01
  
  Much has rightly been made in the many tributes to Charles Kennedy of his principled opposition as party leader to the war in Iraq. But he also opposed on principle the incarceration of people without trial in Guantánamo and elsewhere. In 2004, he and Menzies Campbell made the unusual decision to meet me, as a solicitor acting for Guantánamo detainees, to give me witness statements about a conversation they’d had with George W Bush on a visit by him to the UK. Their statements, w
  
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• Move to limit judicial review for school objections

  03-06-2015 18:15 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Education secretary wants to ‘sweep away’ legal loopholes, but critics say plans are undemocratic.
  
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• We shouldn’t focus on assisted dying, but rather help others find value in life | Andrew Brown

  03-06-2015 17:32
  
  Stephen Hawking’s restated position on assisted dying poses important questions about how the rest of us mere mortals gain a sense of self-worthWhat’s a life worth, and to whom? Professor Stephen Hawking has said once more that he would consider ending his life if he felt he could no longer make a contribution to the world; and although it’s obvious that he means by the world his loved ones as well as the theoretical physics community, it does seem a high bar to set. Not many of us are muc
  
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• High growth in City as skilled jobs stay in London

  03-06-2015 16:28 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Over the next debate the legal and accounting sector is set to create almost 5,000 jobs in the City.
  
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• Freedom Act: US law limits snooping, just as UK gears up to make its spies far ... - The Independent

  03-06-2015 16:15
  
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  Freedom Act: US law limits snooping, just as UK gears up to make its spies far ...
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  The US has dramatically limited the powers of its spy agencies, just as the UK gears up to hugely increase what its own can do. The Senate passed the USA Freedom Act last night, placing new restrictions and oversight on the way that the country's ...
  Obama signs new curbs on NSA surveillance into lawYahoo News UKalle 2.134 nieuwsartikelen »
  
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• VIDEO: David Cameron Says All Law-Abiding UK Citizens Will Essentially Be ... - Truthdig

  03-06-2015 16:13
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  VIDEO: David Cameron Says All Law-Abiding UK Citizens Will Essentially Be ...
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  “For too long we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens so long as you obey the law we will leave you alone,” David Cameron announced after his reelection. It is possibly one of the scariest statements a Western leader has made ...
  
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• Cameron refuses to rule out leaving European convention on human rights

  03-06-2015 16:07
  
  PM tells Commons he would rule out ‘absolutely nothing’ if UK failed to secure right to veto judgments from European courtDavid Cameron has confirmed that he would be prepared to withdraw from the European convention on human rights if a series of proposed changes to Britain’s human rights laws are rejected by Strasbourg.The prime minister told the former Conservative chief whip Andrew Mitchell, a leading member of the “Runnymede Tories” who are committed to upholding British membershi
  
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• Welsh government boosts 'new style' firm with £325,000 grant

  03-06-2015 14:48 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Carbon Law says investment will create 25 jobs in Cardiff.
  
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• US woman pursues ex-boyfriend in landmark UK revenge-porn action

  03-06-2015 14:00
  
  Woman seeking damages and criminal prosecution alleging former boyfriend posted secret video of them having sex before breakup launches complex legal challenge in UK courtsAn American woman is aiming to make legal history in England as the first person to seek both a civil action for damages and the criminal prosecution of a former partner she accuses of posting revenge pornography of her on the internet. Speaking exclusively in a Guardian documentary on her search for justice, Chrissy Chambers,
  
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• Private investors halt Lloyds bid to withdraw high-rate bonds

  03-06-2015 13:13
  
  Bank seeks to appeal against high court ruling banning move to take back bonds which paid up to 16% per yearTens of thousands of private investors have secured a victory over Lloyds Banking Group which has been prevented by a high court judge from withdrawing bonds which paid high rates of interest.The bailed-out bank had hoped to save £200m a year in interest payments by forcing holders of the bonds – which paid rates of between 6% and 16% – to receive no more than the face value of t
  
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• Solicitor jailed for aiding ‘cruel’ fraud scheme

  03-06-2015 12:53 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Kent practitioner Dale Walker received almost £900,000 for his part in the eight-man operation.
  
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• First Chinese-owned law firm launched in the UK - Legal Business Online

  03-06-2015 12:50
  First Chinese-owned law firm launched in the UK
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  The first wholly-Chinese owned law firm in the United Kingdom was launched in London this week, aimed solely at catering to China-based clients. YangTze Law Firm is owned by Steve Ng, a Hong Kong and Beijing-based lawyer, and Winston Gao, ...
  
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• Firm sorry for Alton Towers personal injury tweet

  03-06-2015 12:13 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Statement released today blaming message on ‘severe error’ of judgement.
  
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• Stephen Hawking: 'I would consider assisted suicide'

  03-06-2015 11:05
  
  Physicist tells BBC programme he would consider ending his life if he had nothing more to contribute and was a burden to those around him Stephen Hawking has said he would consider ending his own life if he became a burden to others or if he had “nothing more to contribute”.But the physicist and cosmologist told a forthcoming BBC programme he knows he has much more scientific work to do, despite his advanced motor neurone disease. Continue reading...
  
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• Detainees 'confused' by legal aid cuts

  03-06-2015 10:55 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Research by charity highlights impact of government reforms in immigration cases.
  
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• UK Government reveals new legislative programme - Implications for ... - JD Supra (press release)

  03-06-2015 04:43
  
  UK Government reveals new legislative programme - Implications for ...
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  Following the unexpected victory by the Conservatives in the UK general election on 7 May, the Government has announced its programme for the next session of Parliament. Amongst its proposals, the Government is proposing new laws regulating the ability ...en meer »
  
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• Immigration lawyer says Canada naive about China corruption cases - Yahoo News UK

  03-06-2015 01:16
  
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  Immigration lawyer says Canada naive about China corruption cases
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  WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Canada is naive in its response to corruption cases brought by China against Chinese expatriates and economic ties may be discouraging it from questioning Beijing's motives, a Canadian immigration lawyer said in an ...en meer »
  
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• Medieval laws face axe in legal pruning

  03-06-2015 01:01
  
  Hundreds of outdated British laws to go, including Statute of Marlborough preventing removal of debtors’ goods dating back to 1267Legislation dating back to the reign of King Henry II – preventing removal of debtors’ goods from beyond their native county – will shortly disappear from the UK’s lawbooks.Sections of the Statute of Marlborough, passed in 1267 and the oldest surviving act still in force, are among 200 outdated regulations recommended for repeal in a draft bill published by
  
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