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• Secret court approves NSA surveillance one last time: 'Plus ça change …'

  30-06-2015 23:32
  
  Fisa court judge issues final authorisation to programme banned after Congress banned bulk collection of telephone data in the USA Freedom ActAfter a decade in the shadows, a secretive surveillance court that authorises the bulk collection of American telephone records seized on its last chance to show off a little personality on Tuesday.
  “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, well, at least for 180 days,” wrote judge Michael Mosman in an unusually colourful, and public, r
  
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• Secret court approves NSA bulk collection one last time: 'Plus ça change …'

  30-06-2015 23:32
  
  Fisa court judge issues final authorisation to programme banned after Congress banned bulk collection of telephone data in the USA Freedom ActAfter a decade in the shadows, a secretive surveillance court that authorises the bulk collection of American telephone records seized on its last chance to show off a little personality on Tuesday.
  “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, well, at least for 180 days,” wrote judge Michael Mosman in an unusually colourful, and public, r
  
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• UK government tries to move Libya rendition claims behind closed doors

  30-06-2015 20:10
  
  Lawyers say secret evidence would strike down claims from five out of 12 people who say they were kidnapped, tortured, subject to control orders or tricked into travelling to LibyaGovernment lawyers have asked a high court judge to allow secret evidence to be presented behind closed doors in the case of five out of 12 people who allege they were kidnapped, tortured, subject to control orders or tricked into travelling to Libya where they were detained and mistreated.The lawyers say the secret ev
  
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• Courts order protest meetings off the premises

  30-06-2015 18:18 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Practitioners in Norwich and elsewhere barred from meeting in robing rooms to discuss direct action.
  
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• Texas women got a reprieve from the state's anti-abortion law. It might not last | Wendy R Davis

  30-06-2015 17:24
  
  The US supreme court kept the state’s clinic-closing law from taking effect and depriving many women of access to abortion care. But the fight’s not overUntil I exhaled on Monday, I hadn’t realized that I had been holding my breath.Like so many people, I spent part of my weekend tearing up as I looked at post after post on social media of committed, loving partners’ marriage photos with a renewed sense of hope that sometimes, “right” actually wins – but then there was the fitful sl
  
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• Ted Cruz says US chief justice 'violated his oath' in Obamacare decision

  30-06-2015 17:12
  
  Supreme court enraged conservatives by rejecting healthcare law challenge Republican presidential candidate: ‘It was heartbreaking and depressing’Chief justice John Roberts “violated his oath” when he backed Obamacare in a crucial supreme court decision last week, the Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said on Tuesday.The Texas senator, who has vowed to “repeal every word of Obamacare” if elected, said he was personally disappointed by the chief justice’s decision to uphold
  
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• Judge’s ‘grave’ concern at solicitor’s relationship with client

  30-06-2015 17:08 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Conduct in family custody battle reported to regulator by solicitor himself.
  
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• US supreme court to hear challenge to financial basis of public-sector unions

  30-06-2015 16:50
  
  Case could ban unions from collecting fees from non-membersUnions by law must represent whole workforce Related: Wisconsin unions fight controversial 'right-to-work' law in court filing The US supreme court will consider limiting the power of government employee unions to collect fees from non-members in a case that labor officials say could threaten membership and further weaken union clout. Continue reading...
  
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• Media push for revelation of details of Erol Incedal terror trial

  30-06-2015 16:37
  
  Media organisations’ lawyers tell court of appeal that restrictions on reporting case of London student acquitted of serious terrorism charge should be liftedThere is a “powerful public interest” in the public being permitted to know what happened behind closed doors at an Old Bailey trial which ended with a London law student being acquitted of a serious terrorism charge, the court of appeal heard on Tuesday.Lawyers representing more than a dozen UK media organisations told the court that
  
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• ​Counter-terror law forces prisons, councils, universities to tackle ... - RT

  30-06-2015 15:27
  
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  Following the brutal killing of up to 30 British tourists in Tunisia last Friday, broad-ranging powers came into force to stop extremist radicalization within British universities, prisons, councils and public health trusts. As the government's Counter ...en meer »
  
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• Lawyer: Lufthansa makes Germanwings compensation offer - Yahoo News UK

  30-06-2015 14:54
  
  Lawyer: Lufthansa makes Germanwings compensation offer
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  BERLIN (AP) -- A lawyer for relatives of people killed in the Germanwings crash in March says parent company Lufthansa has made a compensation offer. Elmar Giemulla said in an emailed statement Tuesday that the company is offering 25,000 euros ...en meer »
  
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• The biggest US city without an abortion clinic: El Paso's sole facility faces closure

  30-06-2015 14:46
  
  With Texas’s strict new standards the Hilltop Women’s Reproductive Clinic could close, and the state may soon have fewer than ten abortion clinics In a city of 700,000 people, Franz Theard is one of a kind: a doctor who performs abortions.He runs El Paso’s sole remaining abortion provider, the Hilltop Women’s Reproductive Clinic. Like other clinics in Texas, it was 48 hours away from being forced to stop offering abortions but was reprieved on Monday by the US supreme court’s decision
  
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• Legal aid cuts: lawyers to begin boycott that could see courts grind to a halt

  30-06-2015 14:42
  
  Barristers and solicitors across UK support direct action, arguing cuts will lead to miscarriages of justice and drop in quality of representationCriminal courts could begin grinding to a halt from Wednesday after solicitors and barristers agreed to boycott new cases paid at lower legal aid rates. The swell of support for direct action follows mass meetings across England and Wales. Fees for duty solicitors to attend magistrates courts and police stations will fall by 8.75% on 1 July; a similar
  
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• Criminal lawyers promise boycott of legal aid cases paid at lower rate

  30-06-2015 14:42
  
  Barristers and solicitors across UK support direct action, arguing cuts will lead to miscarriages of justice and drop in quality of representationCriminal courts could begin grinding to a halt from Wednesday after solicitors and barristers agreed to boycott new cases paid at lower legal aid rates. The swell of support for direct action follows mass meetings across England and Wales. Fees for duty solicitors to attend magistrates courts and police stations will fall by 8.75% on 1 July; a similar
  
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• As atrocities are committed in the name of Islam, our ‘leaders’ are failing us | Nazir Afzal

  30-06-2015 14:00
  
  With Muslims both the victims and perpetrators of terrible crimes, the dearth of representative voices in the UK to speak up for our faith has never been clearerThe atrocity in Tunisia, at a hotel I once stayed in, is terrifying and deeply depressing. Muslim communities in the UK feel the pain of those who have lost loved ones. This is Ramadan, the holiest month of the Islamic calendar, and the fact that people have committed murder supposedly in Islam’s name has shocked us to the core.For it
  
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• Accountants reminded of duty over legal complaints

  30-06-2015 13:46 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Almost 100 accountancy firms now authorised to offer probate work.
  
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• Judge declares mistrial after defendant hits lawyer - Yahoo News UK

  30-06-2015 13:44
  
  Judge declares mistrial after defendant hits lawyer
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  WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A judge has declared a mistrial for a Massachusetts murder suspect who punched his lawyer in the face in open court. The Telegram & Gazette (http://bit.ly/1CGqBDf ) reports that the jury was not present when 35-year-old Janleer ...en meer »
  
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• Met loses appeal against compensation ruling for John Worboys assault victims

  30-06-2015 12:57
  
  Metropolitan police lose challenge to ruling that led to two women sexually assaulted by cab driver receiving payout totalling £41,250The Metropolitan police have lost their challenge to a ruling that led to two women who were sexually assaulted by London cab driver John Worboys being awarded compensation totalling £41,250.One of the women, identified only as DSD, was the first of Worboys’ victims to make a complaint to the Met in 2003; the other, NBV, contacted them after she was attac
  
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• ‘No’ votes signal split in direct action campaign

  30-06-2015 12:27 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  London and Manchester vote to join Merseyside in taking direct action over legal aid cuts – but Leicester and Teesside are first centres of dissent. 
  
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• Direct action campaign escalates

  30-06-2015 12:27 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  London, Manchester and Leeds among centres voting to join Merseyside in taking direct action over legal aid cuts. 
  
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• Trade unionists call for public inquiry to examine claims that police spied on them

  30-06-2015 12:17
  
  Trade unionists and blacklisted workers are calling for the public inquiry into undercover policing to look into claims they were subjected to surveillance as wellTrade unionists are calling for the public inquiry into undercover policing to examine allegations that the police also spied on them.Home Secretary Theresa May set up the judge-led public inquiry to scrutinise the failings of the police’s long-running undercover infiltration of hundreds of political groups.Related: Special Demonstra
  
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• 'Airline plot' ringleader fails to win retrial

  30-06-2015 11:28
  
  Strasbourg court rules there was no violation of al-Qaida-linked bomber Abdulla Ahmed Ali’s right to a fair trial by UK courtsAn al-Qaida-linked bomber who claimed he was unfairly convicted through an “avalanche” of prejudicial media coverage has failed to win a retrial.The European court of human rights has ruled unanimously that there was no violation of Abdulla Ahmed Ali’s right to a fair trial by the UK’s courts or criminal justice system. Continue reading...
  
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• Spain: Greenpeace kicks off anti-'Gag Law' protests - Yahoo News UK

  30-06-2015 10:01
  
  Spain: Greenpeace kicks off anti-'Gag Law' protests
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  MADRID (AP) — Greenpeace activists have hung a banner defending people's right to protest from a construction crane close to Spain's Parliament as part of activities to highlight the coming into effect of the Public Security Law, known as the "gag law ...en meer »
  
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