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• In UK First, Law Firm Raises $45 Million Via IPO - The American Lawyer

  08-06-2015 23:22
  
  The American Lawyer
  In UK First, Law Firm Raises $45 Million Via IPO
  The American Lawyer
  Michael Ward, Gateley's Birmingham, England-based senior partner, told The Am Law Daily that there was no ringing of the bell on Monday to signal the law firm's landmark IPO. Instead, an automated electronic scoreboard ushered in another day of trading ...
  
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• Ban Ki-moon leaves Israel off list of countries that kill or injure children

  08-06-2015 23:03
  
  UN secretary general does not include Israel or Hamas but says number of dead and wounded Palestinian children is unacceptableBan Ki-moon’s latest list of parties that kill or injure children in armed conflict does not include Israel – as some UN officials had recommended.But the UN secretary general makes clear in the report circulated on Monday that the number of Palestinian children killed and injured in Gaza and the West Bank last year, in the thousands, is unacceptable. Related: Israel
  
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• UK supreme court to consider impact of fraud in divorce settlements

  08-06-2015 22:36
  
  Varsha Gohil and Alison Sharland seek to reopen cases, claiming ex-husbands misled divorce courts about true value of their assetsAlison Sharland received £10m from her ex-husband when they divorced, believing it was half his fortune, before coming to the conclusion that his Manchester software company was worth many more millions of pounds.Her case that she should have received significantly more from her former husband, Charles, opened in the supreme court on Monday. The 48-year-old from
  
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• California considering banning biodegradable microbeads from personal care products

  08-06-2015 21:35
  
  The state is considering a bill that would prohibit microbeads, even if they’re made from bioplastic, eliminating a longstanding loopholeLast year, Illinois governor Pat Quinn signed the country’s first bill to ban the sale or manufacture of personal care products containing microbeads, tiny plastic exfoliators that have been proven to pollute waterways. Maine, New Jersey and Colorado have since passed similar laws, and a federal version of the bill is in the works.
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• If we educate prisoners, they won’t keep coming back | John Podmore

  08-06-2015 18:59
  
  Incarcerating someone decently and humanely is just the start. Access to education and the internet help prisoners re-enter the modern worldWhile there are still those in society who would like people sent to prison to be further punished, it is the deprivation of liberty that is the punishment for breaking the law: prison as punishment not prison for punishment.Of course, with incarceration come other restrictions. But it is the extent to which such restrictions are imposed, either by design or
  
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• Lord Griffiths obituary

  08-06-2015 18:17
  
  Law lord with a wide range of public responsibilitiesHugh Griffiths, who has died aged 91, had a distinguished career in the legal profession as a barrister, a high court judge and – as Lord Justice Griffiths – a law lord and life peer. Over the years he was called upon to head various official inquiries and to serve on numerous public and legal bodies. A first-class cricketer and excellent golfer in his younger years, he also had the unique distinction of having been both president of the M
  
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• Lord Griffiths

  08-06-2015 18:17
  
  Law lord with a wide range of public responsibilitiesHugh Griffiths, who has died aged 91, had a distinguished career in the legal profession as a barrister, a high court judge and – as Lord Justice Griffiths – a law lord and life peer. Over the years he was called upon to head various official inquiries and to serve on numerous public and legal bodies. A first-class cricketer and excellent golfer in his younger years, he also had the unique distinction of having been both president of the M
  
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• US top court backs Obama, invalidates Jerusalem passport law - Yahoo News UK

  08-06-2015 17:58
  
  Yahoo News UK
  US top court backs Obama, invalidates Jerusalem passport law
  Yahoo News UK
  Reuters/Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama acknowledges applause at the end of his remarks on Jewish American History Month at the Adas Israel Congregation synagogue in Washington May 22, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan …more Ernst less.en meer »
  
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• Weightmans confirms Leeds merger plan

  08-06-2015 17:07 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Top-50 firm in advanced talks with Yorkshire practice about a takeover.
  
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• UK supreme court to consider impact of fraud in divorce settlements - The Guardian

  08-06-2015 16:36
  
  The Guardian
  UK supreme court to consider impact of fraud in divorce settlements
  The Guardian
  Alison Sharland, 48, from Wilmslow, Cheshire, who is appealing against her divorce settlement, leaves the supreme court in London. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images. Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent. @owenbowcott. Monday 8 June ...en meer »
  
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• Britain urged to rethink arms trade with Saudi Arabia after blogger ruling

  08-06-2015 15:19
  
  Campaigns call for shift in policy towards biggest buyer of UK weapons after Raif Badawi’s sentence of 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison is upheld by top courtCampaigners have called for a radical shift in Britain’s relationship with Saudi Arabia, the UK’s biggest arms market, after the Saudi supreme court upheld the sentence of 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison given to blogger Raif Badawi.The previous UK coalition government approved arms sales to Saudi Arabia worth almost £4bn
  
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• Britain urged to end arms trade with Saudi Arabia after blogger ruling

  08-06-2015 15:19
  
  Campaigns call for shift in policy towards biggest buyer of UK weapons after Raif Badawi’s sentence of 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison is upheld by top courtCampaigners have called for a radical shift in Britain’s relationship with Saudi Arabia, the UK’s biggest arms market, after the Saudi supreme court upheld the sentence of 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison given to blogger Raif Badawi.The previous UK coalition government approved arms sales to Saudi Arabia worth almost £4bn
  
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• Cardinal Pell's lawyer demands retraction of 'false allegations' - Catholic Herald Online

  08-06-2015 14:42
  Catholic Herald Online
  Cardinal Pell's lawyer demands retraction of 'false allegations'
  Catholic Herald Online
  Cardinal Pell's lawyer has called on his critic Peter Saunders to withdraw allegations he made on Australian television. Mr Saunders, a member of the Vatican's advisory commission on child sexual abuse, had accused the cardinal of knowing that a ...en meer »
  
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• Wrongfully jailed men lose high court actions in battle for compensation

  08-06-2015 12:40
  
  Sam Hallam and Victor Nealon, who spent 24 years in prison between them, argued UK law wrongly restricts compensation in miscarriage of justice casesTwo men who spent years behind bars before their convictions were overturned have lost high court actions in their fight for compensation.Sam Hallam, who was convicted of murder, and Victor Nealon, who was found guilty of attempted rape, asked two judges to rule that UK law is incompatible with the European convention on human rights, claiming it wr
  
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• Gateley float raises £30m

  08-06-2015 11:58 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Share price surges in early trading as national commercial firm lists on Alternative Investment Market.
  
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• DLA prepares to launch UK contract lawyer unit - The Global Legal Post

  08-06-2015 11:16
  The Global Legal Post
  DLA prepares to launch UK contract lawyer unit
  The Global Legal Post
  Following the example of Allen & Overy and its Peerpoint initiative, DLA Piper plans to set up a flexible working team - to suit both clients and staff - by the end of the year. Khakimullin Aleksandr. DLA Piper hopes to retain its talented young ...en meer »
  
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• Supreme court to consider impact of fraud in divorce settlements

  08-06-2015 11:15
  
  Alison Sharland and Varsha Gohil seeking to reopen financial negotiations, claiming that ex-husbands misled divorce courts about true value of their assetsThe former wives of two wealthy men are taking their claims for larger payouts to the supreme court, claiming that their divorce settlements left them short-changed. Charles Sharland and Bhadresh Gohil are accused of concealing the true value of their assets. Their former spouses are seeking to reopen financial negotiations on the grounds that
  
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• Lawyer finds loophole in register of companies - Contractor UK

  08-06-2015 11:06
  Lawyer finds loophole in register of companies
  Contractor UK
  A lawyer claims there is a way for a 'beneficial owner' of a business to head off the “unwanted scrutiny” that the government's central register of companies might bring them. James Austen of legal advisory Charles Russell Speechlys says “help is at ...
  
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• Murdered boy's mum tells MLAs to back Sarah's Law - Belfast Telegraph

  08-06-2015 10:09
  
  Belfast Telegraph
  Murdered boy's mum tells MLAs to back Sarah's Law
  Belfast Telegraph
  A mother whose eight-year-old son was murdered by a sex offender has urged MLAs not to spurn the chance to save a child's life. Also in this Section. SDLP slams 'scandalous' police investigation into Irish Tricolour flown over Stormont · Couple's ...
  
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• £30m IPO sees Gateley become UK's first listed law firm - bdaily

  08-06-2015 10:02
  
  bdaily
  £30m IPO sees Gateley become UK's first listed law firm
  bdaily
  The Birmingham-based firm has raised £30m from the placing of 31,589,937 Ordinary Shares with institutional and other investors at the Placing Price of 95 pence per share. The net proceeds raised by the company will be used to help change the structure ...
  Law firm Gateley raises 30 mln pounds in pioneering London floatLondon South Eastalle 16 nieuwsartikelen »
  
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• eyeWitness to Atrocities: the app aimed at bringing war criminals to justice

  08-06-2015 01:01
  
  Digital technology developed to help human rights activists document and store photographs and films that can be shown in courtA mobile phone app that enables eyewitnesses to download evidence of alleged atrocities from anywhere in the world so it can be verified and used to prosecute perpetrators is being launched on Monday.The London-based International Bar Association (IBA) has developed digital technology that will help human rights activists document and store photographs and films that can
  
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• SDT: Jude Darrel Godson

  08-06-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll.
  
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• SDT: Avtar Deu and Sheihla Agha

  08-06-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that first respondent should be suspended from practice as a solicitor for two years to commence on 29 September 2014 and the second respondent should be prohibited from having her name restored to the roll of solicitors except by order of the SDT.
  
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• Rolls Building considers specialist financial list

  08-06-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The ‘financial list’ would provide a specialist dispute resolution forum in competition with centres such as Dubai and Singapore.
  
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• Nottingham firm signs up with bar regulator

  08-06-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Husband and wife ran Invictus Legal as a solicitors’ firm for five years, before opting to set up a new company as a Bar Standards Board-regulated entity.
  
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• Grieve to chair rule of law group

  08-06-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Former attorney general also emerges as a possible candidate to chair the House of Commons Justice Select Committee.
  
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• Gateley stock exchange float makes history

  08-06-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Sector analysts expect competitors to follow firm’s fortunes closely as they review growth strategies and consider whether to follow suit.
  
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• Firms alarmed by visa levy

  08-06-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Immigration measures announced in the Queen’s speech have alarmed the City amid fears that increasing regulatory burdens could make it harder to hire overseas talent.
  
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• Election law primer

  08-06-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  ‘An alarming state of affairs in Tower Hamlets.’
  
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