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• Legal aid cuts will 'leave parts of the UK without a lawyer' - The Times (subscription)

  22-07-2015 23:10
  
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  Legal aid cuts will 'leave parts of the UK without a lawyer'
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  He's keen not to “shroud wave” but Jonathan Smithers, the newly elected president of the Law Society, believes cuts to criminal legal aid could leave parts of the country “where there's simply no one left to provide representation to defendants up ...
  
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• Leon Brittan among senior Westminster figures named in new child abuse files

  22-07-2015 22:19
  
  Peter Morrison, Peter Hayman and William van Straubenzee named alongside former home secretary in documents, which police will pass to ongoing inquiryGovernment papers about the former home secretary Leon Brittan are among a fresh batch of documents which have come to light months after the conclusion of an official review into whether allegations of child abuse were covered up by the Home Office in the 1980s.As the authors of the review said they were “concerned and disappointed”, it emerge
  
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• Cage 'seeking legal advice on whether it was defamed by David Cameron'

  22-07-2015 21:05
  
  Prime minister branded the advocacy group ‘extremist’ in counter-terrorism speech on Monday, while also accusing it of telling people to support jihadThe advocacy group Cage has said it is seeking legal advice on whether David Cameron could be guilty of defamation for labelling it an “extremist” organisation during a speech on counter-terrorism.The prime minister made the comments in Birmingham earlier this week when he set out the government’s strategy for tackling extremism over the
  
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• Ministry of Justice exceptional funding is for defending basic rights | Letters

  22-07-2015 20:43
  
  The high court judgment (Legal aid safety net does not work, rules UK high court, 15 July) vindicates our long-running concerns about the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 changes and was neatly juxtaposed with the Ministry of Justice’s official response to the Commons justice committee report on cuts to civil legal aid. Addressing the issue of exceptional case funding, which the committee said was not fit for purpose, the MoJ suggested that no miscarriages of justice
  
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• American NGO to withdraw from Russia after being put on 'patriotic stop list'

  22-07-2015 20:14
  
  The MacArthur Foundation was among 12 organisations under investigation over whether they should be declared ‘undesirable’ and bannedThe MacArthur Foundation, a US NGO that supports academic and human rights initiatives, will shut down its activities in Russia after lawmakers included it on a “patriotic stop list” of foreign groups.Russia’s upper house of parliament asked the prosecutor general’s office, foreign ministry and justice ministry earlier this month to investigate whether
  
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• Supreme court orders speedway owner to cover opponents' £500k legal bill

  22-07-2015 19:31
  
  Suffolk motorsport operator was initially sued for £20,000, but no-win-no-fee basis of lawyers obliges losing party to pay further £496,585 in costs and bonusesMotorsport track operators in Suffolk who were ordered to pay a couple living in a neighbouring bungalow £20,000 in damages because of the noise must now pay almost £500,000 in legal costs because the case was run on a no-win-no-fee basis, the supreme court has ruled.David Coventry and Moto-Land UK Ltd, who run the Mildenhal
  
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• Supreme court orders speedway owner to cover opponents' £500,000 legal bill

  22-07-2015 19:31
  
  Suffolk motorsport operator was initially sued for £20,000, but no-win-no-fee basis of lawyers obliges losing party to pay further £496,585 in costs and bonusesMotorsport track operators in Suffolk who were ordered to pay a couple living in a neighbouring bungalow £20,000 in damages because of the noise must now pay £500,000 in legal costs because the case was run on a no-win-no-fee basis, the supreme court has ruled.David Coventry and Moto-Land UK Ltd, who run the Mildenhall Stadi
  
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• The EU shouldn't strike down UK laws | Crime and the law | spiked - Spiked

  22-07-2015 18:48
  
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  The EU shouldn't strike down UK laws | Crime and the law | spiked
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  On 17 July, the English High Court ruled that a piece of UK law – the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIPA) – was unlawful, on the basis that it violated the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU. UK acts of parliament are not subject ...
  
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• Irish publisher to challenge jury's libel award at European court

  22-07-2015 18:30
  
  Independent Newspapers argues that €1.25m defamation award was disproportionate and has a ‘serious chilling effect’ on freedom of expression Ireland’s Independent Newspapers’ group is to challenge Irish defamation laws at the European Court of Human Rights, reports the Irish Times. The newspaper company claims that a libel award of €1.25m (£870,000) has a “serious chilling effect” on freedom of expression. Continue reading...
  
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• Irish Times to judge: stop Rupert Murdoch from using Ireland title

  22-07-2015 17:51
  
  Newspaper argues that ‘The Times Ireland’ will blur and dilute its own valuesThe legal case taken by the Irish Times against Rupert Murdoch’s UK company over its intention to publish an online newspaper called The Times Ireland is under way.The Irish Times’s counsel told the commercial court in Dublin on Tuesday that the trademark and values of the Irish Times will be “blurred and diluted” by such a publication. Continue reading...
  
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• Northern Ireland – mother and daughter lose appeal to allow abortions on NHS

  22-07-2015 16:30
  
  Women’s lawyer says they may take case to European Court of Human Rights – ‘my clients do not intend to give up’A mother and her teenage daughter have lost an appeal against the government’s refusal to allow women in Northern Ireland to have abortions on the NHS.The women’s court challenge, which took place in the Court of Appeal in London on Wednesday, would have sought to overturn the almost total ban on abortions in Northern Ireland, the only part of the UK where almost all termin
  
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• MoJ proposes new round of court fee rises

  22-07-2015 14:58 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  ‘General uplift’ including doubling of some fees to generate over £100m in additional income a year.
  
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• Trowers profits down on modest revenue rise

  22-07-2015 14:36 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  International net profits plummet from £2.5m to £100,000. 
  
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• Action day 22: legal aid practitioners rally in London

  22-07-2015 13:33 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Solicitors and barristers gathered outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court ahead of crucial meeting with Michael Gove tomorrow.
  
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• Gender equality at the bar ‘will never be reached’

  22-07-2015 12:50 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Bar Council finds that the proportion of women called to the bar would need to be around 58% to achieve equality amongst practising barristers.
  
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• Supreme Court rejects human rights challenge to CFAs

  22-07-2015 11:59 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Much-awaited judgment in Coventry consigns ‘cost wars’ to history, lawyers say.
  
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• 'You are a powerful but insecure man' – letter to the Angolan president

  22-07-2015 08:00
  
  Rafael Marques de Morais, the journalist sentenced for ‘defaming’ the army, warns Dos Santos of the disaster he’s courtingDear President José Eduardo dos Santos,Since we are unlikely to meet, I have decided to attempt a conversation with you by this medium. After 36 years of your presidency, it’s time to talk. Related: Angolan journalist ‘close to settling’ with generals he accused on blood diamonds As the highest judge in the land, you must retain the moral ​authority to co
  
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• Government dismisses legal aid extradition concerns

  22-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  House of Lords select committee recommended introduction of ticketing system for duty solicitor rota.
  
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• Government dismisses extradition legal aid concerns

  22-07-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  House of Lords select committee recommended introduction of ticketing system for duty solicitor rota.
  
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• The Latest: Blagojevich lawyer wanted more counts dismissed - Yahoo News UK - Yahoo News UK

  22-07-2015 00:35
  
  The Latest: Blagojevich lawyer wanted more counts dismissed - Yahoo News UK
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  CHICAGO (AP) — The latest on a federal appeals court ruling that overturned some of the corruption convictions of imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (all times CDT): 5:30 p.m.. An attorney for Rod Blagojevich says he's disappointed in an ...en meer »
  
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• The Latest: Blagojevich lawyer wanted more counts dismissed - Yahoo News UK

  22-07-2015 00:35
  
  The Latest: Blagojevich lawyer wanted more counts dismissed
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  CHICAGO (AP) — The latest on a federal appeals court ruling that overturned some of the corruption convictions of imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (all times CDT): 5:30 p.m.. An attorney for Rod Blagojevich says he's disappointed in an ...en meer »
  
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