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• UK courts need to be educated about Islam, says Birmingham Six lawyer - The Guardian

  11-07-2015 23:00
  
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  UK courts need to be educated about Islam, says Birmingham Six lawyer
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  A British black-cab driver who was sentenced to 38 years for a murder during the Iraq war should never have been prosecuted, according to the lawyer who helped overturn some of Britain's most notorious miscarriages of justice. The trial of Anis Sardar ...
  
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• UK courts need to be educated about Islam, says Birmingham Six lawyer | Law ... - The Guardian

  11-07-2015 23:00
  
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  UK courts need to be educated about Islam, says Birmingham Six lawyer | Law ...
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  A British black-cab driver who was sentenced to 38 years for a murder during the Iraq war should never have been prosecuted, according to the lawyer who helped overturn some of Britain's most notorious miscarriages of justice. The trial of Anis Sardar ...
  
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• UK courts need to be educated about Islam, says Birmingham Six lawyer

  11-07-2015 23:00
  
  Gareth Peirce warns of prejudice in British justice system, and highlights campaign to free Anis Sardar, who was found guilty of murderA British black-cab driver who was sentenced to 38 years for a murder during the Iraq war should never have been prosecuted, according to the lawyer who helped overturn some of Britain’s most notorious miscarriages of justice.The trial of Anis Sardar at Woolwich crown court in May is an example of how British justice is prejudiced against Muslim defendants –
  
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• Lawyer wants charges dismissed against mom with dead babies - Yahoo News UK - Yahoo News UK

  11-07-2015 21:37
  
  Lawyer wants charges dismissed against mom with dead babies - Yahoo News UK
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  WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A lawyer is seeking to have charges dismissed against a mother who lived in a filthy home where the skeletal remains of three babies were found. A judge approved Keith Halpern's request Friday in Worcester Superior Court ...en meer »
  
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• Lawyer wants charges dismissed against mom with dead babies - Yahoo News UK

  11-07-2015 21:32
  
  Lawyer wants charges dismissed against mom with dead babies
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  WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A lawyer is seeking to have charged dismissed against a mother who lived in a filthy home where the skeletal remains of three babies were found. A judge approved Keith Halpern's request Friday in Worcester Superior Court ...
  
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• APA ethics independent review: medical professionals and torture

  11-07-2015 17:57
  
  Independent review examines American Psychological Association guidelines and doctors’ involvement in national securityUS torture doctors could face charges after report alleges post-9/11 ‘collusion’ Continue reading...
  
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• US torture report: psychologists should no longer aid military, group says

  11-07-2015 14:54
  
  In wake of damning post-9/11 ‘collusion’ report, association says psychologists should not be a part of interrogations at Guantánamo Bay or elsewhere Related: US torture doctors could face charges after report alleges post-9/11 'collusion' A representative of the US’s largest professional association of psychologists, which is in the throes of crisis after an independent review found it to be complicit in torture, has said psychologists should no longer participate in US detentions and in
  
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• Psychologists' collusion with US torture limited our ability to decry it anywhere | Dr Steven Miles

  11-07-2015 14:38
  
  The American Psychological Association report highlights how it allowed torture clinicians to operate in our ranks. But the impact goes far beyond the group Related: US torture doctors could face charges after report alleges post-9/11 'collusion' The report documenting the role of the American Psychological Association (APA) as an embedded accomplice to torture during the War on Terror is important for its detail, but not for its novelty. The essence of this story has been known for eight years
  
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• Shami Chakrabarti: To Kill A Mockingbird made me a lawyer - The Guardian

  11-07-2015 14:03
  
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  Shami Chakrabarti: To Kill A Mockingbird made me a lawyer
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  Atticus Finch's advice to his daughter inspired Shami Chakrabarti's career as a lawyer and campaigner. The director of Liberty explains why Harper Lee's themes still resonate today. Go Set a Watchman: read the first chapter · Oprah Winfrey: my lunch ...en meer »
  
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• Shami Chakrabarti: To Kill A Mockingbird made me a lawyer

  11-07-2015 14:00
  
  Atticus Finch’s advice to his daughter inspired Shami Chakrabarti’s career as a lawyer and campaigner. The director of Liberty explains why Harper Lee’s themes still resonate todayGo Set A Watchman: read the first chapterListen to the extract read by Reese WitherspoonShare your first impressions of Go Set A WatchmanThe justice secretary and I don’t seem to agree on much at the moment. But one thing we do have in common: last year, Michael Gove wrote, “Do I think Of Mice And Men, Lord O
  
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• Harper Lee: my little sister

  11-07-2015 14:00
  
  They were 15 years apart, but shared a passion for home and family. Alice Finch Lee on the growing pains of her little sister, To Kill A Mockingbird author HarperGo Set A Watchman: read the first chapterListen to the extract read by Reese WitherspoonShare your first impressions of Go Set A WatchmanMy father was a self-made person. Back in those days, they didn’t have much rural education. He probably went to a school less than a year, all told. But he was one of the best-educated men you ever
  
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• Hacking Team hack casts spotlight on murky world of state surveillance

  11-07-2015 11:00
  
  The recent dump of the company’s private documents revealed the blurred moral lines of ‘digital mercenaries’ providing software that could violate human rights
  In contrast to many of the private companies performing outsourced aggressive surveillance work for the world’s spy agencies, Hacking Team doesn’t try to hide behind a generic corporate identity. Gamma International, Academi and QintetiQ could be companies doing anything, but Hacking Team – well, it doesn’t take a genius to
  
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• Cameron to include employment law opt-out in EU membership negotiations

  11-07-2015 02:01
  
  Prime minister’s bid to opt out of laws such as working time and agency workers directives could stop unions and businesses supporting referendum on EU
  David Cameron is to make an opt-out from EU employment social protection laws such as the working time directive and the agency workers’ directive one of his goals in his EU negotiations, according to reports last night from Conservative political sources in Brussels.If the prime minister achieves the demand as part of his renegotiation with
  
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• PM 'seeking EU opt-out on work law' - Yahoo News UK - Yahoo News UK

  11-07-2015 01:23
  
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  PM 'seeking EU opt-out on work law' - Yahoo News UK
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  David Cameron will demand that the UK should be exempt from European Union employment laws as part of his plans to redefine the relationship with Brussels, according to reports. The Prime Minister will seek to restore opt-outs to the EU legislation ...en meer »
  
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• Kids sent by Michigan judge to juvenile detention reassigned to summer camp

  11-07-2015 00:00
  
  Judge Lisa Gorcyca claims a media frenzy broke the story ‘without getting all the facts straight’ and insists her decision was in the children’s best interestsA Michigan judge on Friday reversed her decision to send three siblings to a juvenile detention facility for not talking to their father – and instead ordered they attend a local summer camp.During a hearing Friday, Lisa Gorcyca, a circuit court judge in Oakland County, claimed a media frenzy commenced after a local TV news outlet
  
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