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• Breaking up BT should only be the end of the line

  16-07-2015 22:43
  
  Sky and TalkTalk want Ofcom to force BT to split off the infrastructure division Openreach but the case for such radical action is weak and it might do nothing Should BT be broken up? Should Openreach, the bit that owns and manages the copper-and-fibre network and sells its services not only to BT Retail but also to rivals, be liberated and run separately?The temptation to answer yes is strong. Read Sky’s submission to the regulator Ofcom and be shocked by stories of Openreach’s incompetence
  
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• Trafficking gang that sexually exploited hundreds of women jailed

  16-07-2015 21:24
  
  Gang of 11 from Hungary, arrested after victim escaped from east London brothel and alerted police, handed prison terms ranging from 20 months to 14 yearsA gang of traffickers behind the sexual exploitation of at least 250 women across 50 brothels in the UK has been jailed in one of the largest cases of its kind.Seven men and four women, aged from 29 to 53 and all from Hungary, were arrested after a woman forced to work as a prostitute escaped from a London brothel and alerted police, Scotland Y
  
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• Time for radical action on our failing prisons | Letters

  16-07-2015 20:37
  
  The latest damning prison inspectorate report (Editorial, 15 July) highlights how violence, death, self-harm and despair are endemic to the prison system. These are the direct consequences of flawed criminal justice policies on the part of successive governments, where the prison system is a repository for those from some of the most disadvantaged groups in society. Social problems rooted in increasing poverty and widening inequality must be addressed elsewhere. Coming weeks after the Harris rev
  
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• Israel ambassador’s less conciliatory tone on Palestinian children | Letters

  16-07-2015 20:37
  
  The conciliatory tone of the article (Israel’s people want peace too. Pressure doesn’t help, 13 July) by Israel’s outgoing ambassador to the UK, Daniel Taub, contrasts interestingly with our experience. We were members of a Foreign Office-sponsored group of British lawyers (including the former attorney general, Baroness Scotland QC) which went to Israel and the occupied territories in 2011 to report on how the Israeli authorities were treating Palestinian children. Our unanimous report, C
  
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• It’s insania, m'Lud! Peter Andre's lyrics are in the dock

  16-07-2015 19:12
  
  All rise for the high court battle between ITV2 and reality-TV producer Neville Hendricks, where the the singer’s songs are being introduced as devastating evidenceWe’re off to London, and a ringside seat at what people are already called the Showbiz Trial of the Century: the bitter high court row between broadcasting leviathan ITV2 and TV producer – and former associate of Peter Andre – Neville Hendricks. Big money is at stake. Hendricks is after £549,000 damages and costs plus an
  
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• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film-makers seek to recover slice of profits

  16-07-2015 18:26
  
  The producers, writers and a director of the 90s franchise are filing a lawsuit against the rights holder for $3m they claim is rightly theirsWhile the franchise has moved on to a successful reboot, the team involved with the 90s big-screen iteration of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is demanding over $3m in unpaid profits. Related: Laura Linney joins cast of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2Continue reading...
  
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• How Nazi guard Oskar Gröning escaped justice in 1947 for crimes at Auschwitz

  16-07-2015 17:45
  
  Exclusive: UN war crimes files reveal that SS guard Gröning faced trial after the war for his role in the Holocaust but US cold war fears led to Nazis being releasedOskar Gröning, the convicted Auschwitz death camp guard, escaped prosecution in Britain nearly 70 years ago because of the United States’ desire to fight the cold war, according to newly discovered documents.Researchers in London combing through the archives of the UN War Crimes Commission (UNWCC) have discovered that charges
  
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• Lawyer-Turned-Refugee Takes UK to Court for Aiding Sudan Abuses - teleSUR English

  16-07-2015 17:33
  
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  Lawyer-Turned-Refugee Takes UK to Court for Aiding Sudan Abuses
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  Children flock with containers to a field demarcated for food-drops at a village in Nyal, an administrative hub in Unity state, south Sudan, on February 24, 2015. | Photo: AFP. Previous; Next. Published 16 July 2015. Coments +. We Recommend ...en meer »
  
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• Lawyer-Turned-Refugee Takes UK to Court for Aiding Sudan Abuses | News ... - teleSUR English

  16-07-2015 17:33
  
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  Lawyer-Turned-Refugee Takes UK to Court for Aiding Sudan Abuses | News ...
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  Children flock with containers to a field demarcated for food-drops at a village in Nyal, an administrative hub in Unity state, south Sudan, on February 24, 2015. | Photo: AFP. Previous; Next. Published 16 July 2015. Coments +. We Recommend ...en meer »
  
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• US to upgrade Cuba's status in annual human trafficking study, claim reports

  16-07-2015 16:00
  
  Criticism greets reports that Cuba will be removed from worst tier of offenders in US government’s annual Trafficking in Persons report
  The US is set to remove Cuba from the bottom tier on its list of worst human trafficking centres, US sources said, in what will be another step in the historic rapprochement between the former cold war foes. The upgrade would lift Cuba to the so-called tier 2 watch list from tier 3, where it has languished since 2003 due to allegations of sex trafficking and w
  
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• More than 120 courts to close or relocate in Ministry of Justice economy drive

  16-07-2015 15:59
  
  By closing down underused courtrooms and making greater use of technology MoJ hopes to cut waste in estate that costs half a billion pounds a year More than 120 courts and tribunals across England and Wales could close, relocate or amalgamate under an economy drive proposed by the Ministry of Justice.The programme is aimed at saving money by closing down underused courtrooms, exploiting video conferencing and transforming some preliminary hearings into online exchanges. Continue reading...
  
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• Criminal bar announces date for legal aid action

  16-07-2015 15:49 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Executive committee recommends action begin on 27 July as it issues protocol.
  
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• Hundreds of young people trafficked into door-to-door sales in the US

  16-07-2015 15:22
  
  Vulnerable young people targeted to join sales teams before being driven far from home and subjected to abuse and exploitation, says anti-trafficking charityHundreds of young people are being abused and exploited within the travelling sales industry in the US.In a report published on Thursday, entitled Knocking at Your Door, the anti-trafficking charity Polaris describes how unemployed young people are targeted by recruiters who promise them an enjoyable job involving travel and high profits.Rel
  
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• MedCo to face immediate review

  16-07-2015 15:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Review of whiplash diagnosis scheme was due to start in September but concerned ministers have brought it forward.
  
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• Equity partners at SME law firms in UK earn less than salaried partners ... - Scottish Legal News

  16-07-2015 14:41
  Equity partners at SME law firms in UK earn less than salaried partners ...
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  Partners at some small UK law firms are seeing no increase in pay despite an uptick in the country's economy. They are making less than salaried partners as well as fee-earners according to new research by accountants Booth Ainsworth. In some cases ...
  
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• Ditching training contract could 'undermine UK law' - Law Gazette

  16-07-2015 14:14
  
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  Ditching training contract could 'undermine UK law'
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  Getting rid of the training contract could damage Britain's reputation as a centre of legal excellence, the Law Society warns today. Advertisement. In a report based on research with City solicitors, Chancery Lane said the proposal to abolish the ...
  
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• Ditching training contract could 'undermine UK law'

  16-07-2015 14:02 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society warns that scrapping workplace learning risks damaging sector’s reputation and competitiveness.
  
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• MoJ earmarks one in five courts for closure

  16-07-2015 13:11 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Consultation on future of 91 courts and tribunals.
  
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• Breaking: MoJ to shut one-fifth of courts in mass closure

  16-07-2015 13:11 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Consultation on future of 91 courts and tribunals.
  
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• Breaking: MoJ earmarks one in five courts for closure

  16-07-2015 13:11 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Consultation on future of 91 courts and tribunals.
  
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• Knife crime in England and Wales up for first time in four years

  16-07-2015 13:10
  
  ONS reveals 2% rise in total knife crime offences in year to March as ‘two strikes and you’re out’ jail sentence for possession comes into force
  Knife crime has increased in England and Wales for the first time in four years, with the number of assaults with blades rising 13%, according to the latest set of police recorded crime figures.The Office for National Statistics said the 2% rise in all knife crime offences in the 12 months to March marked the end of a downward trend in the previou
  
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• SRA praises ‘innovative’ Gateley as firm posts £60m revenue

  16-07-2015 13:07 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Full-year turnover expected to have risen by 10% during period prior to listing.
  
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• Move to overturn UK assisted suicide law fails - The Guardian

  16-07-2015 12:27
  
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  Move to overturn UK assisted suicide law fails
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  The court said lawyers for Paul Lamb, who was paralysed following a car crash, had not yet exhausted all remedies within the UK. Photograph: Emma Hallett/PA. Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent. @owenbowcott. Thursday 16 July 2015 05.12 EDT ...en meer »
  
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• Move to overturn UK assisted suicide law fails | Society | The Guardian - The Guardian

  16-07-2015 12:27
  
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  Move to overturn UK assisted suicide law fails | Society | The Guardian
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  The court said lawyers for Paul Lamb, who was paralysed following a car crash, had not yet exhausted all remedies within the UK. Photograph: Emma Hallett/PA. Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent. @owenbowcott. Thursday 16 July 2015 05.12 EDT ...en meer »
  
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• Convictions of 83 political campaigners in doubt over undercover police failings

  16-07-2015 12:00
  
  Report finds officers deployed to infiltrate groups appeared in trials using fake personas and allowed false evidence to be presented in courtThe criminal convictions of another 83 political campaigners could be overturned because the involvement of undercover police was hidden from their trials, an official review has revealed. The home secretary, Theresa May, said the safety of the convictions was causing concern and described the withholding of crucial evidence by undercover police as an “a
  
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• Oskar Gröning’s conviction doesn’t draw a line under Nazi crimes | David Cesarani

  16-07-2015 12:00
  
  The sentencing of the ‘bookkeeper of Auschwitz’ fails to explain why for decades the West German legal system allowed former Nazis to escape justiceOskar Gröning’s conviction for being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews in Auschwitz-Birkenau between May and July 1944 is being hailed as a triumph for justice and a vindication of the new, proactive approach of the German judiciary with respect to Nazi-era crimes. Moshe Kantor, head of the European Jewish Congress, declared that
  
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• Move to overturn UK assisted suicide law fails

  16-07-2015 11:12
  
  European court rejects applications from Jane Nicklinson, whose husband suffered from locked-in syndrome, and car crash victim Paul LambAn attempt to overturn the UK law on assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia by appealing to the European court of human rights has failed.The Strasbourg court has rejected as inadmissable applications by Jane Nicklinson, whose husband Tony suffered from locked-in syndrome, and Paul Lamb, who was paralysed following a car crash.Continue reading...
  
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• End of UK PORN blocks? David Cameron's compulsory filters could be ... - Express.co.uk

  16-07-2015 09:16
  
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  End of UK PORN blocks? David Cameron's compulsory filters could be ...
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  The Prime Minister announced measures to stop the hard-core porn "in the darkest corners of the internet" from "corroding childhood". "For a lot of children, watching hard-core pornography is in danger of becoming a rite of passage," David Cameron told ...en meer »
  
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• Lawyer wants Orangeman's Ardoyne crash murder bid charges reviewed ... - Belfast Telegraph

  16-07-2015 08:48
  
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  Lawyer wants Orangeman's Ardoyne crash murder bid charges reviewed ...
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  Two attempted murder charges against a senior Orangeman who knocked over two women and a number of police officers should be reviewed, his lawyer said yesterday. Ads by Google. Counsel for John Alexander Aughey (61) revealed that his client had ...en meer »
  
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• US lawmakers gravely concerned over Malaysia human trafficking rating

  16-07-2015 04:35
  
  Lawmakers tell John Kerry that upgrading Malaysia in the US list of offenders would ‘compromise our international efforts to fight human trafficking’
  Dozens of members of the US Senate and House of Representatives have written to the secretary of state, John Kerry, expressing “grave concern” that Malaysia may be upgraded in this year’s US list of human trafficking offenders.“A premature upgrade of Malaysia would undermine the integrity of the TIP (Trafficking in Persons) report proce
  
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• Exceptional funding scheme ‘unlawful’, High Court rules

  16-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  People unable to pay for legal assistance ‘suffering in a way that parliament could not have intended’.
  
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