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• Call for urgent government review of Compass Group whistleblower case

  28-06-2015 17:41
  
  Anti-corruption campaigners write to Theresa May, claiming that UK prosecutors only took an interest in the case when prompted by the FBIThe home secretary has been asked to conduct an urgent review of how a whistleblower’s allegations of corruption at Compass Group are being investigated, after anti-corruption campaigners claimed UK prosecutors only became interested in the case after prompting by the FBI.
  The move comes after the Guardian revealed a series of allegations made against the FTS
  
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• What Palestine needs is for Europe to honour its own agreements | Saeb Erekat

  28-06-2015 14:16
  
  By boosting relations with Israel while it violates the rights of Palestinians, the EU is disregarding international law and its investment in the two-state solutionIn light of the latest developments in the diplomatic arena, including a security council peace initiative, the UN report on the 2014 Gaza aggression and Palestine’s first submission of information to the international criminal court, it is worth reminding ourselves of Europe’s role in and responsibility for solving the question
  
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• Lord Janner to face trial after DPP ruling overturned

  28-06-2015 12:14
  
  Crown Prosecution Service to announce former Labour MP should be charged and face trial over allegations of sexual abuse dating back to 1960sGreville Janner is to face justice after an independent QC overturned the decision of the director of public prosecutions not to charge him with child sexual abuse, the Crown Prosecution Service will announce on Monday.
  The decision will increase pressure on Alison Saunders, the DPP, who has faced calls to resign over her failure to charge Janner with a str
  
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• Lord Janner to face justice after DPP ruling overturned

  28-06-2015 12:14
  
  Crown Prosecution Service to announce former Labour MP should be charged and face trial of facts over allegations of sexual abuseLord Janner is to face justice in a trial of the facts after an independent QC overturned the decision of the director of public prosecutions not to charge him with child sexual abuse, the Crown Prosecution Service will announce on Monday.The decision will increase pressure on Alison Saunders, the DPP, who has faced calls to resign over her failure to charge Janner wit
  
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• The Observer view on prison reform | Observer editorial

  28-06-2015 01:05
  
  Michael Gove must be bold and tackle the tinderbox of our jailsLast week, Michael Gove gave his first major speech as a “one-nation” justice secretary. Six weeks into the job, he spelt out, in his customary forthright and fluent manner, the faults in our “creaking and dysfunctional justice system”. More is to come in July. Gove said that Britain offers a “gold standard” service for those who can pay and failure for those who can’t.He acknowledged that cuts to legal aid exacerbate t
  
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• Fair societies don’t treat prisoners like animals | Kevin McKenna

  28-06-2015 01:05
  
  What price justice in the SNP’s brave new Scotland?No one is even remotely suggesting that the SNP’s social justice initiatives are mired in deep reactionary mud. This is the party, after all, that has annexed Scotland on an agenda that is so socially just that it makes dear old Nelson Mandela look like a phalangist. The reason why the citadels of the Labour party in Scotland have been reduced to rubble is because most of its former voters migrated to the SNP on the wings of freedom, enlight
  
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• Cameron is abusing Magna Carta in abolishing our rights | Michael Ignatieff

  28-06-2015 01:05
  
  Citizens need protecting, and not only by English lawsLawyers, scholars and citizens will gather on Monday night at the British Library to examine the iconic power of a wrinkled piece of parchment, covered with faded, semi-legible medieval script, now 800 years old. We like to think Magna Carta has this power because it represents the beginning of what we hold in common. It may be iconic for the opposite reason: because it frames fundamental disagreements and forces us to understand just how far
  
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