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• Illegal drug use figures do not suggest UK law is 'working' - The Independent

  23-07-2015 22:21
  
  The Independent
  Illegal drug use figures do not suggest UK law is 'working'
  The Independent
  According to policing minister Mike Penning, the Government's strategy in the war on drugs is working because long-term levels of the abuse of illicit substances are falling. Whether you agree depends on how you interpret the word “working”. Figures ...
  
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• Hassan Rouhani urged to follow nuclear deal success with human rights progress

  23-07-2015 20:49
  
  Some political prisoners have been released, but activists are unsure if this means Iran is opening up, and want president to bring issue to the fore
  Bolstered domestically by the nuclear deal, Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, is now being urged to shift his attention to human rights. Leading activists and lawyers are calling on the pragmatist cleric to replicate the political nous he showed over the nuclear issue and take rights violations off the back burner as he approaches the second half
  
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• Illegal drug use figures do not suggest UK law is 'working' - Comment - Voices ... - The Independent

  23-07-2015 20:11
  
  The Independent
  Illegal drug use figures do not suggest UK law is 'working' - Comment - Voices ...
  The Independent
  According to policing minister Mike Penning, the Government's strategy in the war on drugs is working because long-term levels of the abuse of illicit substances are falling. Whether you agree depends on how you interpret the word “working”. Figures ...
  
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• New protocol marks change of tactics in legal aid action

  23-07-2015 19:41 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Practitioner groups say allowing police station and magistrates work will maintain firms’ cash flow. 
  
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• High Court orders judicial review of Cage charity funding decision

  23-07-2015 19:22
  
  Organisation that was linked to Islamic State executioner succeeds in bid to take Charity Commission to court for asking charities to stop funds The High Court has made a landmark ruling that the Charity Commission will face a judicial review of its decision to pressure charities not to fund advocacy group Cage.The commission had allegedly overstepped its powers by asking two charities to stop funding Cage in March, after the group said Mohammed Emwazi, believed to be the Islamic State execution
  
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• Gove meeting ‘potentially constructive’

  23-07-2015 15:19 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Practitioner groups met with justice secretary this morning as nationwide boycott over legal aid cuts continues.
  
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• New family court opens in push to encourage ADR

  23-07-2015 14:06 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The designated family judge for London behind the initiative says there was a need for the court ‘to provide more than just a trial process’.
  
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• UK authorities 'lack resources' to investigate Trafigura over toxic waste

  23-07-2015 14:01
  
  Environment Agency says it lacks necessary expertise and resources to investigate oil firm over 2006 toxic water dump in Ivory CoastUK authorities have admitted they lack both the expertise and resources to investigate the oil company Trafigura for prosecution over its role in a toxic waste dump in the Ivory Coast which left up to 100,000 people with skin rashes, headaches and respiratory problems.In the past 15 months, Amnesty International has contacted UK police forces, agencies and prosecuto
  
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• Kerry Kennedy: Morocco has pressured UN to ignore Western Sahara

  23-07-2015 13:14
  
  The president of Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights accuses Moroccan government of widespread abuses in Western Sahara
  Mohamed Lamine Haidala was 21 years old when he died from wounds that his family say were inflicted by five Moroccan men.An ethnic Saharwi, Haidala was attacked, beaten, and stabbed in the neck in El Aaiun, Western Sahara on 31 January. His family insist he was yet another victim in a territory where the native Sahrawis are constantly subjected to abuses by Mo
  
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• Greeks vote in new civil code despite rebellion

  23-07-2015 13:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Measure attempts to streamline Greece’s notoriously slow judicial system.
  
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• Greeks vote in new civil code

  23-07-2015 13:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Measure attempts to streamline Greece’s notoriously slow judicial system.
  
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• Couple used film school to defraud wounded Iraq and Afghanistan veterans

  23-07-2015 12:49
  
  The Wounded Marine Careers Foundation in California was used to embezzle money meant for former soldiers interested in film-making courses, court findsA married couple in California have been found guilty of defrauding wounded veterans of over $1m in a scam involving a film school that offered tuition and hardware they never received.Judith Paixao and Kevin Lombard, who will be sentenced in October, created the Wounded Marine Career Foundation, a non-profit organisation that was used to embezzle
  
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• Landmark £85 parking ticket battle hits Supreme Court

  23-07-2015 12:25 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  A motorist had to crowdfund more than £6,000 to cover the costs of taking the case to the highest court in the UK despite his lawyers acting pro bono.
  
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• £85 parking ticket battle hits Supreme Court

  23-07-2015 12:25 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  A motorist had to crowdfund over £8,000 to cover the costs of taking the case to the highest court in the UK despite lawyers acting pro bono.
  
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• Man becomes first to be convicted under UK's new revenge porn law - Naked Security

  23-07-2015 12:04
  
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  Man becomes first to be convicted under UK's new revenge porn law
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• Philip Nitschke says NT medical body is 'insufferably arrogant and paternalistic'

  23-07-2015 05:23
  
  Voluntary euthanasia advocate furious at Northern Territory branch of Australian Medical Association’s decision to not reinstate his medical licenceThe voluntary euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke has accused the Northern Territory branch of the Australian Medical Association of “insufferable arrogance and paternalism” because it refused to reinstate his membership after a supreme court decision overturned the suspension of his medical licence.The president of the NT AMA, Professor Richar
  
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