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• Man wearing Isis flag 'not breaking UK law' - Stuff.co.nz

  06-07-2015 22:08
  
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  Man wearing Isis flag 'not breaking UK law'
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  A man walking around London draped in an Islamic State flag was not breaking the law, UK police say. Images posted on Twitter show the man with a small child on his shoulders outside the Houses of Parliament. Social media users have criticised police ...en meer »
  
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• We in Yarl’s Wood will not give up our rights | Letter

  06-07-2015 21:01
  
  I’m writing this from Yarl’s Wood. I’m still in my cell even though the “fast track” asylum system has been suspended and people should be released (Report, 3 July). I was raped and suffered other torture in my home country, but my asylum claim was fast-tracked. There is no way the “fast track” system can be brought back in a fair way, because it leaves us no time to gather evidence of what we have suffered. And what is fair about imprisoning anyone with no end in sight, when all w
  
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• GQ article on phone-hacking trial was in contempt of court, judges told

  06-07-2015 20:35
  
  High court considering whether piece by US journalist Michael Wolff created substantial risk that trial would be seriously impededGQ magazine could face a fine for possible contempt of court in its coverage of the News of the World phone-hacking trial last year.The attorney general has told the lord chief justice that he believes an article by the US journalist Michael Wolff published last April created a substantial risk that the trial of Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and others “would be seri
  
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• UK Publishers Don't See Why Anyone's Complaining About Copyright Law - Techdirt

  06-07-2015 19:39
  
  UK Publishers Don't See Why Anyone's Complaining About Copyright Law
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  As the copyright reform effort is underway in Europe, a number of legacy players are running a bit scared. The UK Publishers Association published a rather amusing attempt at "mythbusting" claims that reformers are making about copyright. Nate ...en meer »
  
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• Bar urges solicitors to withdraw legal aid tenders

  06-07-2015 18:22 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Criminal bar suggests solicitor opponents of contracting are 'all talk'.
  
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• Why did the Gibson inquiry into rendition disappear? | Ian Cobain

  06-07-2015 15:11
  
  Five years after David Cameron announced an inquiry into the UK’s involvement in rendition and torture, many of its key questions remain unansweredFive years ago today, in one of his first announcements after entering No 10, David Cameron said he was establishing a “short and sharp” official inquiry into the UK’s involvement in so-called rendition and the torture of terrorism suspects.The new prime minister told the Commons he was “determined to get to the bottom of what happened” du
  
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• Media scares about ‘sharia marriages’ miss the point | Shaista Gohir

  06-07-2015 14:02
  
  Some Muslims have religious but not civil marriage ceremonies to avoid sharing assets, but they’re not the only ones avoiding their responsibilities. Changing the law could help protect cohabiteesRecent press coverage on Muslim weddings no longer describes them as religious, Muslim or even Islamic marriages. Instead they are being referred to as sharia marriages. The negative connotations associated with the word “sharia” allow dubious links to be made to extremism, as in an article on the
  
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• Vexatious ex-solicitor restrained after years of court claims

  06-07-2015 13:52 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Anal Sheikh and her mother subject to civil restraint orders after a string of litigation proceedings.
  
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• Alice Gross's family press for inquiry, saying they 'just want answers'

  06-07-2015 13:32
  
  Inquiry should examine whether UK authorities carried out checks on her killer Arnis Zalkalns’s homicidal past and if he was subject to supervision, lawyer tells coroner
  The family of murdered schoolgirl Alice Gross have told a coroner they “just want answers” about whether UK authorities knew about her killer’s homicidal past.
  Arnis Zalkalns, a builder from Latvia, killed 14-year-old Alice last August before weighing down her body on a river bed in west London. Zalkalns then took his ow
  
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• Canadian activists turn to UN with challenge to controversial anti-terror bill

  06-07-2015 13:00
  
  Bill increasing powers of spy agency and federal law enforcement has met with accusations it is too broad and infringes on rights to privacy and free speechCanadian civil society groups are bringing their challenge to a contentious new anti-terror bill to an international audience: a key United Nations rights body in Geneva.Opponents of bill C-51 will use a periodic review of Canada’s international rights obligations this week by the UN human rights committee to voice a laundry list of concern
  
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• Change the law to protect police officers who shoot people, say UK's highest ... - The Independent

  06-07-2015 12:43
  
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  Change the law to protect police officers who shoot people, say UK's highest ...
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  The law should be changed to protect police officers who shoot people in the line of duty, the head of the Metropolitan Police has said. Sir Bernard Hogan Howe said it was not appropriate that firearms officers were having to justify split-second ...en meer »
  
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• Greek crisis hits international firms

  06-07-2015 12:34 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulatory duty to ensure safety of client money poses problems for solicitors. 
  
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• I’ve been in Britain’s grimmest prisons, but Pentonville’s the worst | Carl Cattermole

  06-07-2015 12:30
  
  Life inside HMP Pentonville is one of drugs, overcrowding and alienating hopelessness. The chief inspector of prisons has captured it perfectly in his reportHMP Pentonville is a huge category-B prison situated in the heart of Islington – the north London borough that mixes champagne socialists with tracksuit-clad boys who can wheelie all the way from Holloway to Kings Cross on stolen Boris bikes. During my year inside, I spent time in some of Britain’s most notorious nicks. They were all thr
  
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• Scots seek to oust Welsh as estate agency watchdogs

  06-07-2015 12:23 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society of Scotland fears ABSs will be subject to dual regulation under UK Estate Agents Act. 
  
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• North Korea has carried out 1,400 public executions since 2000, report claims

  06-07-2015 10:00
  
  According to South Korean research, citizens are forced to witness public deaths in an effort to keep them in line. Daily NK reportsNearly 1,400 North Koreans were publicly executed between 2000 and 2013, according to new research, which suggests that the number of these deaths peaked at 160 in 2009. Further increases after 2013 have also been reported.The Korean Institute for National Unification, funded by the South Korean government, said in its annual white paper on human rights in North Kor
  
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• Decline in UK law firm merger activity - The Global Legal Post

  06-07-2015 08:34
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  Decline in UK law firm merger activity
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  UK law firms are now merging for growth instead of financial necessity, according to research evidencing a decline in the number of mergers last year. QQ7. Many mergers are now used to expand a firm's offerings. Law firm merger activity in the UK ...en meer »
  
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• Education for girls all over the world is the civil rights struggle of our time | Gordon Brown

  06-07-2015 08:30
  
  Like Malala before them, brave young women are fighting for themselves and others to go to school, escape child labour and child marriageThey are all Malala. Four defiant, courageous girls who stand toe-to-toe with the education campaigner Malala Yousafzai. Four ordinary girls who have done extraordinary things representing thousands of Malalas across this dark and dangerous world. Related: Who is Nobel peace prize winner Kailash Satyarthi? Progress towards universal education has not only stall
  
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• Man wearing Isis flag 'not breaking UK law' - Manawatu Standard

  06-07-2015 05:51
  
  Manawatu Standard
  Man wearing Isis flag 'not breaking UK law'
  Manawatu Standard
  A man walking around London draped in an Islamic State flag was not breaking the law, UK police say. Images posted on Twitter show the man with a small child on his shoulders outside the Houses of Parliament. Social media users have criticised police ...en meer »
  
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• Law firm mergers dip as economy recovers

  06-07-2015 01:05 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The number of law firms in England and Wales has remained steady at over 10,300 in 2015, following a steady decline.
  
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• Alice Gross's family want inquiry into what UK authorities knew of her killer

  06-07-2015 01:01
  
  Arnis Zalkalns, who avoided facing justice for schoolgirl’s death by killing himself, had been allowed into Britain despite murder conviction in Latvia
  The family of murdered schoolgirl Alice Gross will ask for an inquiry into whether British authorities ever knew her killer was a convicted murderer before he attacked her.Arnis Zalkalns, a builder from Latvia, killed 14-year-old Alice last August before weighing down her body on a river bed in west London. Zalkalns then took his own life. Cont
  
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• South-east Asia shapes regional economic area

  06-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  International lawyers are cautiously optimistic about a regional economic area for south-east Asia, despite protectionist barriers in the legal sector.
  
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• SDT: Selcuk Karatas

  06-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll.
  
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• SDT: ​Ross Onotasa Monioro

  06-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should pay a fine of £11,000.
  
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• SDT: Richard Arnold Wilkes

  06-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll.
  
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• SDT: Ian Robert Gannicott

  06-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should pay a fine of £5,000.
  
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• SDT: ​Glyn Alan Willmott

  06-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll.
  
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• Scope of settlement agreements

  06-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The Court of Appeal provides some useful guidance on the scope of patent settlement agreements.
  
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• PDS lawyers move in as direct action bites

  06-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal aid lawyers picket Manchester Magistrates’ Court
  
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• New PermSec for MoJ

  06-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  A barrister who began his career as a Home Office lawyer is to be the next permanent secretary at the Ministry of Justice, the government revealed last week.
  
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• Mayoral money for nothing

  06-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Liverpool mayor fails to overturn tribunal finding relating to outside employment.
  
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• Costs curbs for clin neg confirmed

  06-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The government has confirmed that it will seek to legislate on fixed costs for clinical negligence claims worth up to £100,000.
  
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• Costs curbs for clin neg

  06-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The government has confirmed that it will seek to legislate on fixed costs for clinical negligence claims worth up to £100,000.
  
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