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• Bosnian court grants wartime rape victim compensation in landmark ruling

  24-06-2015 21:31
  
  As two Bosnian Serb soldiers are each sentenced to 10 years’ jail, verdict offers hope to more women who suffered sexual violence during 1992-95 warBosnia’s war crimes court has issued a landmark ruling, granting the first ever compensation to a wartime rape victim and sentencing two former Bosnian Serb soldiers, who raped the woman early in the 1992-1995 war, to 10 years each in jail. The woman is among thousands of victims of wartime rape whose search for recognition and support from the B
  
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• Pupils denied university place due to immigration status 'should get loans'

  24-06-2015 20:04
  
  Many unaware of restriction until applying for financial support, which if they are charged as an international student, can be as high as £26,000 a yearProviding loans to teenagers who are denied university places because of their immigration status would benefit the whole of society, the supreme court has been told.Opening a challenge against government restrictions on eligibility for student finance, Helen Mountfield QC said that hundreds of pupils every year are being condemned to less prod
  
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• Hague climate change judgement could inspire a global civil movement

  24-06-2015 19:17
  
  Dutch ruling could trigger similar cases worldwide with citizens taking their governments to courts to make them act on climate promises “You have been negotiating all my life”, cried out 21-year-old Anjali Appadurai from the lectern of a UN climate change conference four years ago. The activist, speaking on behalf of her nation’s youth, could have speaking for anyone who has taken a mild interest in more than two decades of international negotiations on climate change and stood aghast as
  
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• Merseyside barristers and solicitors back direct action

  24-06-2015 18:58 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Barristers and solicitors in Merseyside unite in opposition to legal aid cuts due to be implemented next week.
  
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• Rwandan spy chief's arrest exposes the intricacies of international justice

  24-06-2015 16:42
  
  Emmanuel Karenzi Karake’s Heathrow airport detention may be justified but will be used to confirm claims that African leaders are unfairly targeted, says Simon AllisonWhat links the president of Sudan, an Egyptian journalist and a Rwandan spy chief? The delicate case of international law, it seems. Related: 'By letting Omar ​al-​Bashir escape, ​South Africa​ had sided with tyrants' Karake’s arrest is a major test of universal jurisdiction in action Continue reading...
  
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• We need a strong liberal voice in UK politics. Tim Farron won’t provide it | Ian Birrell

  24-06-2015 16:00
  
  The frontrunner in the Liberal Democrat leadership contest has a worrying record on touchstone issues such as gay rights and abortionIt has been largely forgotten, but two of the nation’s major political parties are now engaged in leadership contests. While the quartet of Labour candidates received prime-time television coverage for their dreary and uninspiring debate, the two men fighting over the twitching corpse of the Liberal Democrat party struggle to gain much media interest for the mino
  
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• Whitehall opens vacancies to chartered legal executives

  24-06-2015 15:39 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The move follows a review into the Government Legal Department’s recruitment practices
  
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• Recorder wrong to make fraud link to PI firm, court rules

  24-06-2015 14:46 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Solicitors practice took case to judicial review after fraud finding in its absence.
  
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• Leveson proposes online sentencing

  24-06-2015 14:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Head of Queen’s Bench Division says ‘very large bulk’ of low-level work could be resolved without court hearings.
  
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• 'Seoul-based investigators will bring Kim Jong-un to justice', vows UN

  24-06-2015 12:35
  
  Newly opened human rights office, dramatically denounced by North Korea, could be a ‘game changer’ for documenting abuses
  The United Nations has opened a new office in Seoul to monitor North Korea’s human rights record, prompting a warning from Pyongyang of “resolute toughest” action against what it termed a grave provocation.Related: Dawning diplomacy? Flurry of trips suggests North Korea needs new allies ‘Politically motivated provocation’This will bring about a game-changing eff
  
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• Dutch government ordered to cut carbon emissions in landmark ruling

  24-06-2015 12:04
  
  Dutch court orders state to reduce emissions by 25% within five years to protect its citizens from climate change in world’s first climate liability suit A court in the Hague has declared the Dutch government’s climate policy illegal and ordered it to cut its emissions by at least 25% within five years, in a landmark ruling.To cheers from climate campaigners in the court, three judges ruled that government plans to cut emissions by just 14-17% compared to 1990 levels by 2020 were illegal.Con
  
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• Climate change is killing us. We must use the law to fight it | Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

  24-06-2015 11:59
  
  The ‘Claim the Sky’ campaign aims to save lives by protecting the atmosphere as a global asset, with governments taking legal action against those who pollute it
  How many deaths does climate change have to cause before someone takes responsibility? Our current use of fossil fuels has “potentially catastrophic effects for human health and human survival”, according to a major new report released on Tuesday by medical journal the Lancet and University College London. And it’s not as if w
  
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• QASA to go ahead as Supreme Court dismisses appeal

  24-06-2015 11:40 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Accreditation scheme ‘proportionate’ to the aims pursued, Supreme Court justices unanimously agree.
  
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• Gove is right on our two-tier justice system – but cuts caused this crisis | Keir Starmer

  24-06-2015 11:12
  
  We need to modernise our courts but that won’t address the fact that those who need it most are failed by the system. Proper investment is needed to redress the balanceMichael Gove, the lord chancellor, has said that we have a two-tier justice system. One for the wealthy and one for everyone else. Those let down most badly, he said, were victims and witnesses of crime and children who have been neglected. Related: Justice system badly failing most users, says Michael GoveContinue reading...
  
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• FCA investigates Quindell over historic accounts

  24-06-2015 10:17 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Company not expected to resume trading until 2014 financial report is quantified.
  
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• P Diddy's lawyer: Star's actions were "defensive" - Yahoo News UK

  24-06-2015 08:47
  
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  P Diddy's lawyer: Star's actions were "defensive"
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  SNAP.PA - The rapper was arrested in Los Angeles on Monday for an alleged assault. Sean “P Diddy” Combs was defending himself during the University of California incident that led to his arrest, his representative has said. “The various accounts of the ...en meer »
  
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• Why is the MoJ so scared of allowing journalists into jails? | Eric Allison

  24-06-2015 08:30
  
  Of course prisons are by their nature closed institutions, but we know what goes on in our schools and hospitals. The media shouldn’t be shut outBack in February, I was contacted by a colleague on the Guardian. Two respected journalists from the US, who write about the penal system there, were coming to the UK and wanted to visit some prisons here. The colleague thought that, as the paper’s prisons correspondent, I could perhaps help out?It was a reasonable assumption; if I was the health co
  
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• Sharp rise in the proportion of black and ethnic minority young prisoners | Alastair Sloan and Eric Allison

  24-06-2015 08:00
  
  Campaigners cite stop and search as a key reason why 40% of those behind bars hail from BME background – a greater disproportion than in the USA Guardian analysis of newly released government figures has revealed a shocking increase in the proportion of ethnic minority children and young people being held in the youth justice system.The figures, issued by the Youth Justice Board (YJB) and which cover young offender institutions, secure detention centres and secure training centres in England a
  
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• Palestine prepares to submit file that could see Israeli officials indicted

  24-06-2015 06:00
  
  Submission to international criminal court follows UN Human Rights Council’s report on war in Gaza, accusing Israel and Hamas of potential war crimesBetween 10 and 11 o’clock on Thursday morning – if all goes according to schedule – the Palestinian foreign minister, Riyad al-Maliki, will arrive with a delegation at the office of the prosecutor of the international criminal court in The Hague.In an unassuming modern suite of offices in the ICC’s white tower block, he will hand over a fi
  
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• Somali claims-farmer rebuked for PI compensation boast

  24-06-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Advertising Standards Authority says it is 'concerned by the lack of response' from 'accidentinjuryclaim.so'. 
  
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• Justice secretary told pro bono ‘no substitute’ for legal aid

  24-06-2015 00:59 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Cautious welcome to justice secretary’s speech – but Michael Gove faces warnings not to rely on lawyers working for free.
  
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• Gove told pro bono 'no substitute' for legal aid system

  24-06-2015 00:59 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Cautious welcome to justice secretary’s speech - but Gove faces warnings not to rely on lawyers working for free.
  
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• Colorado GOP says lawyer spoke with prosecutors over scandal - Yahoo News UK

  24-06-2015 00:56
  
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  Colorado GOP says lawyer spoke with prosecutors over scandal
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  DENVER (AP) — A Colorado Republican Party spokesman said Tuesday that party lawyers have talked with prosecutors about allegations that several leading Republicans tried to blackmail the chairman of the state GOP into resigning. Steve House, head of ...en meer »
  
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