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• Wealthy clients told of loopholes in new UK transparency law - Financial Times

  05-06-2015 20:38
  Financial Times
  Wealthy clients told of loopholes in new UK transparency law
  Financial Times
  A leading law firm has told wealthy clients they can avoid “unwanted public scrutiny” from new transparency laws, in a sign of widely criticised loopholes in the legislation championed by David Cameron. Charles Russell Speechlys, a law firm with a big ...
  
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• NSA surveillance: how librarians have been on the front line to protect privacy

  05-06-2015 18:03
  
  ‘Librarians were the original search engine’ and long before Edward Snowden, thousands campaigned against the government violating privacy rights In the hours before US senators voted to take on the might of the National Security Agency this week, their inboxes were deluged with more than 2,200 supportive emails from a most unlikely group of revolutionaries: America’s librarians.Their contribution to the passage of the USA Freedom Act may not have been as dramatic as the revelations of Edw
  
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• Tory MPs jostle for justice committee chair post

  05-06-2015 17:52 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  A Conservative will chair the committee in the new parliament and scrutinise human rights reform.
  
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• Religious leaders renew calls for Obama to quash abortion funding law

  05-06-2015 16:40
  
  Helms amendment often misinterpreted as ban on abortion funding, preventing access to safe abortion for girls and women experiencing sexual violenceReligious leaders in the US this week called on President Barack Obama to take urgent action to give women and girls who have experienced sexual violence in conflict access to safe abortion services.Members of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths joined human rights activists in Washington on Thursday to seek executive action on the Helms amendmen
  
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• Ex-Linklaters employee barred after £86,000 fraud

  05-06-2015 16:03 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  A former paralegal at Linklaters was jailed after criminal conviction.
  
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• UK Border Agency director who passed confidential data to bogus lawyer ... - Croydon Guardian

  05-06-2015 15:53
  
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  UK Border Agency director who passed confidential data to bogus lawyer ...
  Croydon Guardian
  A UK Border Agency official who passed confidential information to her bogus lawyer boyfriend to swindle vulnerable immigrants out of tens of thousands of pounds today avoided jail. Anjali Patel, 31, of Outram Road, Addiscombe, abused her position to ...en meer »
  
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• UK Border Agency director who passed confidential data to bogus lawyer ... - Your Local Guardian

  05-06-2015 15:53
  
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  UK Border Agency director who passed confidential data to bogus lawyer ...
  Your Local Guardian
  A UK Border Agency official who passed confidential information to her bogus lawyer boyfriend to swindle vulnerable immigrants out of tens of thousands of pounds today avoided jail. Anjali Patel, 31, of Outram Road, Addiscombe, abused her position to ...en meer »
  
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• Nerves and defiance in re-run Tower Hamlets mayoral race

  05-06-2015 14:24
  
  Lutfur Rahman independent protege Rabina Khan is mounting a determined challenge to Labour’s experienced and able John Biggs
  You’ll have heard of Lutfur Rahman. He’s the now former mayor of Tower Hamlets who was heaved out of the Town Hall six weeks ago after a legal judgement found that his unexpected victory at last May’s mayoral election had been tainted by “corrupt and illegal practices” namely the bribing of electors with community grants, the payment of canvassers, the false po
  
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• Libor claim added to Barclays swaps case

  05-06-2015 14:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Bank is defending a £50m claim for losses linked to manipulation of the London interbank offered rate. 
  
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• Kirchner 'Brave' to Meet Snowden Over UK Spying Claims - Lawyer - Sputnik International

  05-06-2015 13:47
  
  Kirchner 'Brave' to Meet Snowden Over UK Spying Claims - Lawyer
  Sputnik International
  Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner met with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in Moscow while on a recent trip to Russia, following reports of illegal British spying on Argentina, the NSA whistleblower's lawyer said. Anthony Romero ...en meer »
  
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• Guam becomes first US territory to recognise same-sex marriage

  05-06-2015 13:34
  
  Friday hearing resolves lawsuit brought by couple in AprilSame-sex couples will be able to marry from Tuesday Related: Rick Santorum says supreme court gay marriage decision is not the 'final word' Guam on Friday became the first US territory to recognise gay marriage, after a federal judge struck down the prohibition. Continue reading...
  
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• Top-100 firms enjoy 6.3% rise in fee income

  05-06-2015 13:31 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law firms expect growth to continue next year – but worries persist over profitability. 
  
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• UK homes need insulation law - Mortgage Introducer

  05-06-2015 12:14
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  UK homes need insulation law
  Mortgage Introducer
  The government should introduce legislation to ensure all UK homes have proper insulation to end 'fuel poverty' where energy is wasted says an independent engineering society. PICT1080.jpg. 0 Comments; Recommend (0). Ryan Bembridge, 5 June, 2015.en meer »
  
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• Disabled payment delay unlawful, judge rules

  05-06-2015 12:08
  
  UK government took ‘unlawful and unacceptably long time’ to pay welfare benefits to two disabled peopleIain Duncan Smith’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) took an “unlawful and unacceptably long time” to pay new welfare benefits to two unnamed disabled people, a high court judge has ruled.The judge was told at a recent hearing that vulnerable people have been forced to turn to loan sharks and food banks because of the delays in providing them with personal independence payments
  
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• Justice in Pakistan: "The government is hanging people left, right and centre"

  05-06-2015 12:06
  
  Since December 2014, Pakistan has executed more than 100 prisoners. For the lawyers defending inmates on death row, life has never been so toughShafqat Hussain was sentenced to death for murder when he was 14. In the 11 years since, he has been granted three last-minute reprieves, most recently last month, just hours before he was due to be hanged.But in a country with an estimated 8,000 people on death row, Hussain’s case is far from unique. And for the handful of human rights lawyers who hav
  
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• Human rights court allows France to take tetraplegic man off life support

  05-06-2015 11:50
  
  Court turns down appeal from comatose Vincent Lambert’s parents and grants wife’s wish that doctors withdraw intravenous food and waterThe European court of human rights has allowed France to take a tetraplegic man in a vegetative state off life support, turning down an appeal by his parents. The European court upheld on Friday a ruling by France’s top administrative court, which had authorised doctors to put an end to the intravenous food and water keeping alive 38-year-old Vincent Lamber
  
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• No flood of CMC complaints so far, reports ombudsman

  05-06-2015 11:29 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Claims management companies attracting fewer complaints than expected, according to initial figures.
  
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• Bankruptcy trustee barred from charging costs to client account

  05-06-2015 11:08 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  High Court rules against claim by trustee looking after affairs of bankrupt law firm. 
  
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• Solicitors hit glass ceiling in judicial appointments

  05-06-2015 10:34 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Proportion of women and BAME candidates making the bench remains steady.
  
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• Timor-Leste presses ahead with challenge to Timor Sea oil and gas treaty

  05-06-2015 06:02
  
  Now that Australia has handed back disputed documents, Timor-Leste is challenging the 2006 treaty after accusations of spyingTimor-Leste is set to resume a formal challenge against an oil and gas treaty that became mired in controversy following claims Australia bugged the cabinet room in Dili to gain the upper hand in negotiations.But the government of Timor-Leste has decided to withdraw an International Court of Justice case against Australia relating to evidence seized by the Australian Secur
  
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• Argentine president met Edward Snowden in Moscow - lawyer - Yahoo News UK

  05-06-2015 03:41
  
  Yahoo News UK
  Argentine president met Edward Snowden in Moscow - lawyer
  Yahoo News UK
  Reuters/Reuters - Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden appears live via video during a student organized world affairs conference at the Upper Canada College private high school in …more Toronto, February 2, 2015.en meer »
  
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• Consolidation drives up UK law firm revenue - Financial Times

  05-06-2015 01:12
  Consolidation drives up UK law firm revenue
  Financial Times
  Turnover at Britain's 100 largest law firms rose 6.3 per cent on average in the last fiscal year, driven by mergers among the smaller to midsize firms, and lawyers are hopeful the market will continue to improve, according to research. “They're ...en meer »
  
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