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• Felicia Kentridge obituary

  05-07-2015 19:19
  
  Felicia Kentridge, who has died aged 85, was the co-founder of South Africa’s Legal Resources Centre, which, through a series of test cases, overturned some of the most oppressive features of the apartheid system. She appeared as junior to Arthur Chaskalson, a co-founder of the centre, in the Komani case, which contributed to the collapse of the pass laws that for decades had straitjacketed the lives of the African majority.Daughter of Irene and Max Geffen, Felicia was born in Johannesburg and
  
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• Theresa May's legal highs ban is unenforceable, say government advisers

  05-07-2015 13:35
  
  Home secretary is told legislation banning all psychoactive substances needs a rewrite to avoid unintentionally criminalising peopleThe home secretary’s own expert drug advisers have said her bill introducing a blanket ban on “legal highs” risks “serious unintended consequences”, including being unenforceable unless it is completely rewritten.The advisory council on the misuse of drugs (ACMD) has written to Theresa May telling her that her legislation risks handing out seven-year priso
  
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• Private Copying and UK Copyright Law – Not Dead Yet - TorrentFreak

  05-07-2015 11:00
  
  TorrentFreak
  Private Copying and UK Copyright Law – Not Dead Yet
  TorrentFreak
  Earlier this month several music industry organizations in the UK won a judicial review which renders the Government's decision to allow copying for personal use unlawful. Following this unexpected decision are UK citizens now breaking the law if they ...
  
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• Neil Wallis wins … and the CPS is losing by a distance

  05-07-2015 10:00
  
  The News of the World executive’s acquittal is the latest in a bad run of results for DPP Alison SaundersNeil Wallis, former deputy editor of the News of the World, has had a rotten four years of on-again-off-again prosecution before finally, last week, an Old Bailey jury decided that he wasn’t a hacking mastermind but an innocent executive mired by events.Wallis, who paid for his own defence and lost any hope of making a living or keeping a marriage together through those four years of
  
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