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• White men make up 79% of elected prosecutors in US, study says

  07-07-2015 23:32
  
  Study also found that 60% of states have no black elected prosecutorsWomen also underrepresented – 17% of 2,437 positions in countryWhite Americans make up 95% of elected prosecutors across the US, according to a new study that cites the non-indictments of white police officers in the high-profile deaths of unarmed black men as the “shocking” reality of a disproportionate and undiverse criminal justice system that relies on prosecutorial power.The study, from the San Francisco-based Women�
  
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• Gender is all too relevant in violence statistics | Letters

  07-07-2015 20:44
  
  Your correspondents call on the director of public prosecutions to “affirm [her] commitment to eliminating intimate violence against human beings of any gender” and criticise the Crown Prosecution Service’s presentation of statistics in its annual violence against women and girls report for being so explicitly gendered (Letters, 2 July).It is established fact that these crimes are massively disproportionately committed against women and girls (female genital mutilation exclusively so) and
  
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• Legal aid restrictions delaying prisoners' rehabilitation, court told

  07-07-2015 18:57
  
  Two charities challenge removal of legal aid from internal prison hearings, arguing system is ‘inherently unfair’Thousands of prisoners are being prevented from starting rehabilitation because they are denied legal aid for parole board hearings, the court of appeal has been told.
  In a challenge to restrictions imposed by the coalition government, lawyers for two charities said the present system was “inherently unfair” and provided no support even for inmates who are incapable of represe
  
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• People who carry knives to be jailed under 'two strikes' rule

  07-07-2015 17:01
  
  Government to bring in on 17 July mandatory minimum sentence of six months for repeat offenders, which was blocked by Lib Dems in coalitionA mandatory “two strikes and you’re out’’ minimum six-month prison sentence for carrying a knife, which was blocked more than a year ago by the Liberal Democrats, is to be finally introduced next week.Justice ministers expect more than a thousand extra offenders a year who are repeatedly caught carrying a knife or blade will be jailed under the measur
  
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• Why are young care leavers being sucked into crime? | Victoria Seabrook

  07-07-2015 16:00
  
  A review aims to uncover the reasons behind looked-after young people being far more likely to offend than their peers“It was everybody I trusted as a child. Everybody who was supposed to look after me. Sooner or later they abused me. I didn’t have my mum there to look after me,” says Deborah Samuel. Sitting in her one-bedroom flat in east London, Samuel, now 46, recounts at speed her traumatic childhood in and out of children’s care homes and secure units from the age of 10 to 17, after
  
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• Clifford Chance profits slip as weak euro takes effect

  07-07-2015 15:12 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Magic circle firm ‘cautiously optimistic’ despite profits down 2%.
  
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• Teenager who wanted to 'bring SHARIA LAW to Britain and kill gay people' jailed - Express.co.uk

  07-07-2015 14:28
  
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  Teenager who wanted to 'bring SHARIA LAW to Britain and kill gay people' jailed
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  A TEENAGE jihadist who wanted to bring Sharia law to Britain has been jailed for four years and three months after he plotted to go to Syria to fight for the Islamic State. By Jake Burman. PUBLISHED: 13:07, Tue, Jul 7, 2015 | UPDATED: 13:27, Tue, Jul 7 ...en meer »
  
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• Russia raids homes, offices of election monitors: lawyer - Yahoo News UK

  07-07-2015 14:28
  
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  Russian police on Tuesday raided the offices of election watchdog Golos as well as the homes of its employees, a lawyer for the group said, amid an ever-increasing crackdown on independent voices in the country. The searches, which came ahead of ...en meer »
  
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• MPs call for guidance on prosecuting UK spies over US drone strikes

  07-07-2015 14:16
  
  Tory and Labour MPs ask DPP to clarify how police should handle intelligence-sharing allegations after Snowden documents raised questions about GCHQ roleA group of MPs is urging the director of public prosecutions to publish guidance for police and prosecutors on how to handle allegations that British spies shared intelligence that led to covert US drone strikes.The Conservative David Davis and two Labour MPs call for Alison Saunders to clarify how to handle the cases, which some lawyers say cou
  
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• Action day 7: MoJ ‘offers talks’ - but not about fee cuts

  07-07-2015 14:13 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Justice ministry ‘opens up lines of dialogue’ as high-profile murder trial hit.
  
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• Action day 7: MoJ ‘in talks’ with practitioner groups

  07-07-2015 14:13 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Justice ministry ‘opens up lines of dialogue’ as high-profile murder trial hit.
  
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• PEP soars at King & Wood Mallesons EUME

  07-07-2015 13:23 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Global firm unveils ‘rocketing’ results for 2014/15.
  
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• Solicitors ‘ready to innovate but wary of change’ – SRA survey

  07-07-2015 13:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Research from regulators reveals that 25% of ‘legal service providers’ have introduced a new or improved service since 2012.
  
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• The case for foreign languages as an aspiring lawyer

  07-07-2015 12:08
  
  If you want to work in the competitive legal profession, having foreign language skills can help to set you apartThe relative lack of foreign language skills among the UK population is well-documented. A recent Guardian survey revealed that 39% of young native English speakers were put off learning a foreign language because “most people speak English”, and 14% by the idea that “most other languages are not useful”.But for students hoping to enter the legal profession – which is increa
  
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• Paralegals sign up for voluntary ‘regulation’

  07-07-2015 11:43 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Register founded by the Institute of Paralegals and the National Association of Licensed Paralegals went live this week.
  
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• Probation officers feel betrayed by 'shambolic' part-privatisation

  07-07-2015 08:00
  
  Survey finds staff unequivocally opposed to government changes, which they say are a detrimental assault on public sector valuesProbation officers feel angry, betrayed and sad about government changes to probation services, which last year outsourced 70% of services to the private sector, ending 100 years of being a unified public body. They also say there is no evidence that the service will be improved.That’s the inescapable conclusion from the online survey of more than 1,300 service employ
  
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• 7/7 seemed to herald a new era of terror on UK soil – one that did not materialise

  07-07-2015 06:00
  
  Massive shakeup of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ took place after 7 July attacks and dozens of plots have been foiled – but it is still hard to say if we are safer nowWhen four suicide bombers killed themselves and 52 others in London 10 years ago, it appeared to signal a terrifying new era of terrorism in the UK. And when four more young men tried to repeat the act two weeks later, the feeling that no one was safe intensified. Further attacks, it would seem, were just a question of when, not if. A decade
  
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• The Latest: Janice Dickinson's lawyer seeks Cosby apology - Yahoo News UK

  07-07-2015 01:03
  
  The Latest: Janice Dickinson's lawyer seeks Cosby apology
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  The lawyer for model Janice Dickinson says "now we know why" Bill Cosby has failed to appear for a deposition in her defamation lawsuit against him. Dickinson sued him in May, saying denials made by the comedian's representatives after she accused him ...en meer »
  
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• Ashurst bucks trend by posting dip in profits

  07-07-2015 01:03 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  PEP slides nearly 4% in a ‘year of consolidation’ for the international firm.
  
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• Legal highs a factor in prison deaths, says ombudsman

  07-07-2015 01:01
  
  Report reveals increasing concern over new psychoactive substances, which featured in at least 19 prisoner deaths between April 2012 and September 2014
  Legal highs are suspected to have been a factor in 19 self-inflicted deaths in prisons in England and Wales over the past two and a half years, an official investigation has found.Nigel Newcomen, the prisons and probation ombudsman, says legal highs – officially known as new psychoactive substances – are a source of increasing concern inside
  
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