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• Two of Bill Cosby's accusers join push to have entire deposition unsealed

  13-07-2015 23:41
  
  Beth Ferrier and Rebecca Lynn Neal, ‘Jane Does’ in the 2005 case, join motion as Neal also spoke out against National Enquirer for pulling an interview with herTwo more of Bill Cosby’s accusers have joined a motion to have the whole of a deposition unsealed from a 2005 case in which the former comedian testified to having given a woman the sedative quaaludes before having sex with her.Related: Bill Cosby's defenders split after revelation comedian drugged womenContinue reading...
  
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• EU law that could make UK internet porn filters illegal is heading for a vote - International Business Times UK

  13-07-2015 20:12
  
  International Business Times UK
  EU law that could make UK internet porn filters illegal is heading for a vote
  International Business Times UK
  The UK's porn filters could be made illegal under a proposed EU law heading for a vote in the European Parliament this autumn. The law takes aim at roaming charges but it will have far-reaching implications for net neutrality and the UK's adult content ...
  
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• David Cameron stays silent on Egypt’s clampdown on journalists | Letter from Toby Cadman

  13-07-2015 19:35
  
  The arrest of four more journalists in Egypt in one week (Report, 7 July) reveals the steady and ruthless attack on the media in Egypt since the 2013 coup. The regime of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi is intent on suffocating independent journalism at any cost. After the abhorrent detention of three al-Jazeera journalists – to international condemnation – the Sisi regime is unashamedly continuing this flagrant series of harassment and detentions. Mohamed Adly, Hamdy Mokhtar and Sherif Ashraf are now fa
  
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• Psychologists could torture because they have no Hippocratic oath | Garrett Koren

  13-07-2015 19:15
  
  It would have been out of the question for a physician to participate in torture. For psychologists, this was a subject for debateIt should come as no surprise that the architects of the CIA’s enhanced torture program were psychologists and not psychiatrists. During my psychiatry residency in the federal prison system, there was one divide between doctors and prison guards that could not be crossed: I was exempt from firearms training. The psychologists in my cohort, however, were required to
  
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• Action day 13: firms consider duty boycott

  13-07-2015 19:02 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal aid lawyers gear up for more direct action as standoff continues.
  
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• Are You Currently a Foreign Student in the UK? New Law States You Will be ... - Bella Naija

  13-07-2015 18:35
  
  Are You Currently a Foreign Student in the UK? New Law States You Will be ...
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  According to Daily Mail, foreign students are to be banned from working while studying in Britain. Also, when their courses end, they will have to leave the country before reapplying to return for a job. The directive was given by Home Secretary ...en meer »
  
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• Shoosmiths, Travers break £100m

  13-07-2015 17:11 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Two more leading firms report improved financial performance.
  
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• Bar training course 'poor value' and ‘exploitative’

  13-07-2015 15:41 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  One new practitioner told a focus group: ‘The BPTC is actually exploitative. Providers don’t care about you, they care about the money.’
  
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• Bar training course criticised as poor value and ‘exploitative’

  13-07-2015 15:41 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  One new practitioner told a focus group: ‘The BPTC is actually exploitative. Providers don’t care about you, they care about the money.’
  
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• China's new Internet law introduces stricter censorship, surveillance powers - Ars Technica UK

  13-07-2015 14:25
  
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  China's new Internet law introduces stricter censorship, surveillance powers
  Ars Technica UK
  Powers to require online surveillance, remove content, block foreign web sites and shut down parts of the network are contained in the draft of a new Internet security law recently published by the Chinese government. Although these approaches have all ...en meer »
  
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• Child abuse inquiry judge's £500,000 pay package revealed

  13-07-2015 14:11
  
  New Zealander Lowell Goddard will get salary of £360,000 a year plus rental and utility allowances, return flights home and car and driverThe New Zealand high court judge chairing a UK inquiry into child abuse is to receive a pay package worth £500,000 a year, it has been disclosed.Justice Lowell Goddard, who officially opened the inquiry last week, is to receive a salary of £360,000 a year with a rental allowance of £110,000 a year and a £12,000 utility allowance on top
  
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• Strike law bid 'like 1930s Germany' - Belfast Telegraph

  13-07-2015 14:05
  
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  Strike law bid 'like 1930s Germany'
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  Controversial moves by the Government to reform strike laws have been roundly condemned by union leaders, one of whom said it "smacks of Germany in the 1930s". Ads by Google. Legislation expected to be published on Wednesday will propose a 50% ...en meer »
  
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• Scott Walker's track record makes him a strong contender in Republican race

  13-07-2015 13:00
  
  The Wisconsin governor is set to declare his candidacy for president. In his state, he has proven his conservative credentials with determination – and aggressionFor all the “day one” promises that have been made in the 2016 presidential race, it’s hard for voters to know how most candidates would actually govern. Repealing Obamacare, tearing off carbon caps and tearing up an Iran nuclear deal are all catchy ideas, but they do not amount to a White House strategy.There is one candidate,
  
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• What might Scott Walker's America look like? Just see what he did to Wisconsin

  13-07-2015 13:00
  
  The governor’s track record has proven a determination – and aggression – for hard-line conservatism that he now brings to the presidential race. Here are 15 transformative momentsFor all the “day one” promises that have been made in the 2016 presidential race, it’s hard for voters to know how most candidates would actually govern. Repealing Obamacare, tearing off carbon caps and tearing up an Iran nuclear deal are all catchy ideas, but they do not amount to a White House strategy.Th
  
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• Unregulated advisers beat law firms in Google rankings

  13-07-2015 12:18 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal Services Board research finds potential legal services users confronted with services of unregulated providers.
  
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• Barrister loses racial discrimination claim against MoJ

  13-07-2015 11:42 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Magistrates’ court employee claimed he was moved ‘under a cloud’ after he was investigated in connection with a fraud.
  
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• Keir Starmer to call for journalists to have a public interest defence

  13-07-2015 11:31
  
  Former director of public prosecutions who pursued cases against reporters for paying public officials now wants them to have legal protectionA former director of public prosecutions (DPP) believes journalists accused of phone hacking or bribing public officials should have a public interest defence in law, reports the Times.Sir Keir Starmer QC, now a Labour MP, will call for journalists to enjoy legal protection if the stories they are chasing can be demonstrated to be in the public interest. �
  
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• China targets lawyers in new human rights crackdown

  13-07-2015 11:20
  
  More than 100 legal professionals and activists have been questioned or detained with strong attacks in state media against those affectedMore than 100 human rights lawyers and activists have been detained or questioned by Chinese police and denounced in state media as a “criminal gang” in recent days – sparking fears of an unprecedented crackdown by the Chinese authorities.According to human rights groups, a total of 106 lawyers, other staff at legal firms and human rights activists have
  
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• Survivors of modern-day slavery 'abandoned and risk being re-trafficked'

  13-07-2015 01:01
  
  Vulnerable people exposed to homelessness and traffickers after 45 days of governmental support ends, says report by Human Trafficking Foundation
  Survivors of modern-day slavery, some of whom have endured horrific physical, psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of traffickers, are being abandoned and are at risk of being re-trafficked, according to a report published on Monday.Vulnerable people, the majority of them women, are falling through gaps in government strategy, which leaves them
  
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• Stop snooping on law firm, Dutch spy agency told

  13-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  ‘This case is yet further evidence that we have moved into a frighteningly Orwellian era.’
  
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• SRA in renewed call to lower PII minimum

  13-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Last year the regulator’s proposal to cut compulsory cover to £500,000 from £2m was blocked by the Legal Services Board.
  
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• Solicitor’s age bias claim rejected

  13-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Cardiff Employment Tribunal ruled that Tracy Fennell’s claim was not well founded.
  
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• Solicitor MPs on justice committee

  13-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  There are also five qualified barristers on the 11-strong House of Commons justice select committee.
  
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• Serious Crime Act provisions

  13-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The 2015 act brought into effect a number of provisions on 3 May and 1 June. We look at the changes relating to, among other things, property and child protection.
  
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• SDT: John Bryon Sampson and Angela Susan Marshall

  13-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the first respondent should pay a fine of £2,500 and that the second respondent should pay a fine of £1,000.
  
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• SDT: Duncan Hugh Ranton

  13-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that respondent should be struck off the roll.
  
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• International: flying the flag

  13-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Prospecting for overseas business is a long-term project, the Law Society’s international marketplace conference heard.
  
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• In-house sector faces wellbeing crisis

  13-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Sector ‘soaks up’ pressures placed on them by colleagues with their own stresses to manage.
  
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• Epic Prest divorce battle rumbles on

  13-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  In 2013, the Supreme Court ruled that Yasmin Prest was entitled to receive millions of pounds of property assets.
  
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• Barristers braced for new direct access push

  13-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The Bar Council has backed a direct access website.
  
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• Barclays faces will-writing battle

  13-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Tinuola Aregbesola alleges the bank’s £90 will-writing service failed to advise her late father to serve a notice of severance.
  
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• Auto-emails to boost feedback ‘integrity’ for solicitor review site

  13-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal services clients of Eclipse are to receive automated email messages asking them to rate the quality of service.
  
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• Auto-emails to boost feedback ‘integrity’ for firms

  13-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal services clients are to receive automated email messages asking them to rate the quality of service under an agreement between a new solicitor rating website and a legal IT supplier. 
  
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• 89-call hunt for solicitor as protest bites

  13-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Ministry of Justice denies claims that its Duty Solicitor Call Centre is buckling under the pressure as boycott goes on.
  
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