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• Saudi blogger lawyer wins human rights prize - Yahoo News UK

  12-06-2015 21:06
  
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  Saudi blogger lawyer wins human rights prize
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  Saudi lawyer Waleed Abu Al-Khair, who is defending a blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes in the Middle East country was on Friday awarded the prestigious Ludovic Trarieux Prize for his work defending human rights, organisers said. The annual legal award ...en meer »
  
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• The Guardian view on Magna Carta: the magic of myth | Editorial

  12-06-2015 20:09
  
  It may be 800 years old, but the idea of the great charter is still a guarantor of freedomEven with the benefit of a legible version and a modern translation of Magna Carta it is sometimes difficult to see what all the fuss is about. The charter that King John signed at Runnymede on 15 June 1215 is, as the master of the rolls, Lord Dyson, said this year, a curious hotch-potch. A ringing – or any other kind of – declaration of modern liberties it most definitely is not. The idea that it has m
  
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• The Rebecca Minnock case: rare insights into the family court system

  12-06-2015 19:19
  
  The judge in the case of the runaway mother has decided to make public what are usually private matters as the search for a child goes onThe very unusual decision to lift reporting restrictions on the case of Rebecca Minnock and her son, Ethan, has allowed a rare insight into the workings of the family and high court system when a child goes missing.Though the case made national media headlines this week, reporting restrictions were initially partially lifted by a district judge on the day mothe
  
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• BB King's family hires prominent lawyer in estate dispute - Yahoo News UK

  12-06-2015 18:12
  
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  BB King's family hires prominent lawyer in estate dispute
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  LAS VEGAS (AP) — B.B. King family members are bringing in a prominent national lawyer to review the events surrounding the blues icon's death and estate. Attorney Benjamin Crump told The Associated Press on Friday that he's been hired to take an ...en meer »
  
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• Super-regulator prepares in case BSB ‘falls short of expectations’

  12-06-2015 17:28 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The LSB is preparing to assess the bar regulator’s compliance after it missed its first deadline to review its continued regulation of the ‘cab rank’ rule.
  
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• 88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary by Robert Grenier review – US’s Afghan war shambles laid bare

  12-06-2015 17:00
  
  A CIA station chief’s account adds considerable value to the historical record, despite its self-serving tone and defence of US torture practicesIt is easy to forget that until he started criticising the Americans for bombing too many Afghan civilians and comparing them to “occupiers”, Hamid Karzai was Washington’s grateful servant. After all, US officials picked him to be Afghanistan’s first post-Taliban president, armed and financed him to launch an uprising against the mullahs after
  
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• Forced marriage is a deeply malign cultural practice – but it’s not the only one | Deborah Orr

  12-06-2015 17:00
  
  It’s good to see the foolish reluctance to challenge cultural practices such as forced marriage coming to an end – but there are plenty of smaller, more insidious traditions that we need to challenge, tooThis week saw Britain’s first forced marriage conviction, a year after forced marriage became a criminal offence under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. As well as a judicial milestone, it is, as you would expect, an extremely disturbing case.The perpetrator
  
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• UK's fast-track asylum system ruled unlawful

  12-06-2015 14:26
  
  Government appeal system for processing asylum seekers’ applications, which has been in use for a decade, must be quashed, high court rulesThe high court has declared the government’s fast-track appeal system for processing asylum applications unlawful.A judge ruled the system, which has been in use for a decade to speed up the processing of asylum seeker claims, was “structurally unfair”. Continue reading...
  
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• Fast-track asylum system ruled unlawful

  12-06-2015 14:26
  
  Government appeal system for processing asylum seekers’ applications, which has been in use for a decade, must be quashed, high court rulesThe high court has declared the government’s fast-track appeal system for processing asylum applications unlawful.A judge ruled the system, which has been in use for a decade to speed up the processing of asylum seeker claims, was “structurally unfair”. Continue reading...
  
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• Prisons that withhold menstrual pads humiliate women and violate basic rights | Chandra Bozelko

  12-06-2015 13:30
  
  Stains on clothes seep into self-esteem and reinforce powerlessness. That’s why wardens keep sanitation just out of reach
  Everyone laughed when Piper Chapman emerged from the shower during the first season of Orange Is the New Black with bootleg shoes made of maxi pads – and inmates do sometimes waste precious resources like sanitary products with off-label uses. At York Correctional Institution in Niantic, Connecticut, where I spent more than six years, I used the tampons as scouring pads
  
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• Barrister suspended from public access work for holding client money

  12-06-2015 13:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Oliver White, a barrister at 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square, has been banned for six months after holding £5,000 for his client.
  
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• Employment fee help granted to fewer than one-fifth of claimants

  12-06-2015 13:11 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Remission was introduced to help claimants who were struggling to afford employment tribunal fees and cover at least some of the cost.
  
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• Five myths about child labour

  12-06-2015 11:55
  
  Does child labour exist in rich countries? Is all work for children considered harmful? On World Day Against Child Labour, we examine the issuesAn estimated 168 million children are involved in child labour, accounting for almost 11% of children globally. While this figure is a third lower than it was in 2000, campaigners say more still needs to be done to get children out of work and into school.Patrick Quinn, child labour specialist with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), says the fi
  
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• It’s 31 years since the miners’ strike. But justice for Orgreave shouldn’t have a time limit | Owen Jones

  12-06-2015 11:40
  
  Police behaviour at Orgreave paved the way for Hillsborough five years later. The IPCC’s decision not to investigate teaches the state that it can mistreat citizens with impunity
  For anyone motivated by justice – wherever they stand on the political spectrum – the case for investigating the so-called “battle of Orgreave” should be straightforward. As the Independent Police Complaints Commission themselves note about this bitter episode of the 1984-85 miners’ strike, in which a coking
  
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• It’s 30 years since the miners’ strike. But justice for Orgreave shouldn’t have a time limit | Owen Jones

  12-06-2015 11:40
  
  Police behaviour at Orgreave paved the way for Hillsborough five years later. The IPCC’s decision not to investigate teaches the state that it can mistreat citizens with impunity
  For anyone motivated by justice – wherever they stand on the political spectrum – the case for investigating the so-called “battle of Orgreave” should be straightforward. As the Independent Police Complaints Commission themselves note about this bitter episode of the 1984-85 miners’ strike, in which a coking
  
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• Practitioners to be balloted on legal aid action

  12-06-2015 10:06 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Decision taken after Ministry of Justice announces it is pressing ahead with second 8.75% fee cut and 527 duty provider contracts.
  
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• Workplace discrimination: when a pregnant pause becomes more long-term

  12-06-2015 08:00
  
  Many new mothers continue to be forced out of their jobs while on maternity, and are unable to stand up for their rightsAt first Carol found it hard to believe her job was being axed as part of a mysterious “restructuring” plan. As a fundraiser for a large national charity she had consistently beaten her targets and knew the organisation’s finances were healthy. But surprise turned to anger when she realised her role was the only one being cut – and that this lone act of “restructuring
  
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• Solicitor due money from partnership drawn up in the pub

  12-06-2015 07:40 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Retirement discussions took place ‘over a bottle of red wine’, High Court hears.
  
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