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• Senate passes torture ban despite Republican opposition

  16-06-2015 21:25
  
  Despite 21 Republican senators rejecting push to prevent future administrations from enacting Bush-era CIA torture programs, bipartisan amendment passesMore than 20 Republican senators rejected a ban on the use of cruel and degrading treatment of prisoners on Tuesday, voting against an ultimately successful measure to permanently prevent a repeat of the CIA’s once secret and now widely-discredited torture program.
  The bipartisan amendment reaffirms President Barack Obama’s prohibition of int
  
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• Lego blocks legal bid to remove trademark protection for its mini-figures

  16-06-2015 19:41
  
  Danish toy company is backed by the European court of justice which rules that Lego people are more than just building bricksLego has won a trademark battle after a court ruled that its mini-figures should continue to be classed as protected shapes, thereby maintaining their position in toytown.The European court of justice (ECJ) rejected on Tuesday an attempt by Best-Lock, a Lancashire-based toymaker, to appeal against the trademark protection of Lego’s figures. Continue reading...
  
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• Solicitors vent anger over legal aid chief’s £225k package

  16-06-2015 17:45 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal Aid Agency report reveals employment costs for senior employees.
  
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• City lawyers warn against SRA apprenticeship plans

  16-06-2015 17:28 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The City of London Law Society said it was far from reassured that SRA proposals will maintain standards in the profession.
  
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• Trade union challenges ‘unlawful’ tribunal fees

  16-06-2015 17:19 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Court hears evidence of sharp fall in the number of new claims, but Ministry of Justice denies policy is unlawful.
  
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• Insurers want urgent action to curb ‘the new whiplash’

  16-06-2015 17:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Association of British Insurers and defendant lawyers call for fixed costs for noise-induced hearing loss.
  
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• German court jails man over death of student who tried to help harassed girls

  16-06-2015 16:27
  
  Sanel Masovic, 18, is jailed for three years for inflicting bodily harm with fatal consequences over death of Tuğçe AlbayrakA German court has jailed an 18-year-old man for three years over the death of a young Turkish-German woman whose name became synonymous with civil courage after she defended two girls who were being harassed in a fast-food restaurant and paid with her life.The panel of judges in the western city of Darmstadt found Sanel Masovic guilty of inflicting bodily harm with fatal
  
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• Head of legal aid's pay rise an 'insult' to solicitors after fees fall 17.5% in last year

  16-06-2015 15:49
  
  Matthew Coats’ salary rise to around £220k has irked already embittered legal aid lawyers who are voting this week on whether to stage mass walkoutsA pay rise of more than 10% for the head of the body that oversees legal aid has been described as an insult by solicitors whose fees have been slashed on his watch.Matthew Coats, the chief executive of the Legal Aid Agency (LAA), saw his combined salary, bonuses and pension benefits rise from between £195,000 and £200,000 in 2014, to
  
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• Appeal ruling backs representation in deprivation of liberty cases

  16-06-2015 14:16 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Long-awaited judgment in Re X has wide implications for Court of Protection.
  
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• By escaping justice, Omar al-Bashir has exposed a fundamental flaw in the ICC | Nesrine Malik

  16-06-2015 14:06
  
  The Sudanese people want an international manhunt for their president, but the international criminal court simply doesn’t have the backing to deliver itThe whole debacle lasted only two days, but the legal and political chaos it produced will probably continue for far longer. The moment a South African court ruled that Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir should not be allowed to leave South Africa where he was attending the African Union summit, and succumb to the ICC arrest warrant for war cri
  
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• 'By letting Omar ​al-​Bashir escape ​South Africa​ had sided with tyrants'

  16-06-2015 13:14
  
  Courting leaders who defy the ICC and letting the Sudanese president fly out in a private jet reveals a disturbing indifference to international law, writes Justice MalalaSomething much greater than just South Africa’s reputation as a human rights leader on the African continent died on Monday.When Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir was allowed to escape the country in a private jet – in defiance of a domestic court order and international law – Nelson Mandela’s democracy stood in solida
  
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• Fake barrister receives suspended sentence

  16-06-2015 13:05 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Former councillor Monika Juneja sentenced after faking qualifications for 14 years. 
  
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• Law Society: third-party client accounts ‘too expensive’

  16-06-2015 12:14 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Solicitors’ body not taken with proposal to allow Bar Council-style third-party client account providers.
  
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• Freshfields plans support sites in US and Asia

  16-06-2015 12:05 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Plans for two further legal service centres come shortly after the magic circle firm decided to move back-office staff to Manchester.
  
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• How should the police respond to London's knife crime injury rise?

  16-06-2015 11:43
  
  It’s not yet clear whether the worsening data represent a long term trend, but key underlying issues for the Met and the mayor remainKnife crime has been moving up the news agenda in grim pursuit of London’s knife crime injury graph. Labour and Lib Dem AMs have drawn attention to a rise in the number of people under the age of 25 cut or stabbed. Met commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe has echoed their concern. Boris Johnson has been accused of failing to honour a headline election pledge. The bl
  
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• Ipso asks: how should we set up our arbitration service... if at all?

  16-06-2015 10:52
  
  Press regulator launches consultation exercise on how to go about the taskOne of the key recommedations of the Leveson inquiry was that a press regulator should set up an arbitration service.To fulfil that requirement, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) has launched a three-month consultation exercise with a view to setting up a pilot scheme. Continue reading...
  
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• The best UK universities for law - Telegraph.co.uk

  16-06-2015 09:31
  
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  For prospective students who aspire to a career in the legal profession, getting onto a top law degree course can be the golden ticket. The subject is highly regarded, with students developing research ability, data skills and logical thinking in ...en meer »
  
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• After 50 years at UK, professor who wrote much of Kentucky law and ... - Lexington Herald Leader

  16-06-2015 06:34
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  After 50 years at UK, professor who wrote much of Kentucky law and ...
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  After a half-century of teaching, University of Kentucky law professor Robert G. Lawson is set to retire on July 1. Among his students were Mitch McConnell, Steve Beshear and much of the state legislature. PABLO ALCALA — Herald-Leader |Buy Photo ...
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• The murders of three Aboriginal children continue to haunt the legal system 25 years after the fact | Richard Ackland

  16-06-2015 00:53
  
  We need policing free of racism and a clearer understanding of double jeopardy so the families of the children murdered at Bowraville can finally get justiceThe frustratingly slow grind of the law can be illustrated in no better instance than the case of the Bowraville murders. There have been two trials, both resulting in the acquittal of the accused, various applications for retrials, three coronial inquiries, along with various legislative changes and parliamentary inquiries. Still there’s
  
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• Bowraville murders: We need policing free of racism, not new double jeopardy laws | Richard Ackland

  16-06-2015 00:53
  
  The murders of three Aboriginal children from Bowraville continue to haunt the legal system 25 years after the fact. Why can’t the families get justice?The frustratingly slow grind of the law can be illustrated in no better instance than the case of the Bowraville murders. There have been two trials, both resulting in the acquittal of the accused, various applications for retrials, three coronial inquiries, along with various legislative changes and parliamentary inquiries. Still there’s no
  
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• Steve Bell on the Magna Carta's 800th anniversary – cartoon

  16-06-2015 00:22
  
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