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• Amnesty International says prostitution is a human right – but it's wrong

  28-07-2015 22:41
  
  “If the organization endorses prostitution as a human right, it won’t be supporting the women being sold, but rather the pimps and buyers of sex who have all the choice in the world”Has Amnesty International been hijacked by proponents of the global sex trade? When the human rights nonprofit convenes its International Council Meeting next week in Dublin, delegates from around the world will be asked to vote on a proposal to recognize prostitution as a human right. Amnesty is arguing that p
  
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• Russell Group universities take sexual assault victims very seriously | Letters

  28-07-2015 21:20
  
  Your article (27 July) suggesting “elite universities” are not taking sexual assault victims seriously does not at all reflect the attitude and efforts of Russell Group universities.Our institutions take the issue of any kind of harassment, abuse or violence against students extremely seriously indeed. They have robust policies and procedures in place to deal with these matters, which are a key part of their responsibility to ensure safety and wellbeing. Continue reading...
  
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• Universities urged to do more to stop sex attacks and harassment on campus

  28-07-2015 20:39
  
  Academics and student campaigners call for more training, better policies and an end to pretending sexual violence doesn’t happenUniversities need to step up efforts to tackle sexual violence and harassment on campus and believe students who report allegations, academics and student campaigners have said.Fewer than half of the Russell Group universities monitor sexual violence, a Guardian investigation has found. And only one in six publish guidelines on reporting allegations, while student vi
  
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• Trump thinks immigrants are rapists. What about married American men? | Jessica Valenti

  28-07-2015 18:37
  
  I want to know what exactly he thinks about his spokesman’s ignorant and terrifying comments, and - more importantly - what exactly he thinks rape isI never thought I’d find myself thinking that someone should be legally banned from getting married, but if there was ever a person who deserved it - I’m sure I’ve found him. Michael Cohen, special counsel for the Trump Organization, responded to a reporter’s questions about a decades-old rape accusation against Republican presidential hop
  
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• Appeal court allows prisoner legal aid challenge

  28-07-2015 18:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The Court of Appeal has allowed two charities to challenge the legality of the government’s legal aid cuts for prisoners on the grounds that the system could be unfair and unlawful.
  
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• Green party hopefuls lose high court bid for MP job share

  28-07-2015 18:30
  
  Sarah Cope and Clare Phipps are denied permission to challenge decision that their joint candidacy for parliament was invalid Two Green party members who hoped to stand for parliament on a job share basis have been refused permission to challenge their rejection in the high court.Sarah Cope and Clare Phipps submitted joint nomination papers for the general election in May, but their combined candidacy was ruled as invalid by the returning officer in the constituency of Basingstoke. Related: Gree
  
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• Legal aid tender process reopens for two areas

  28-07-2015 18:24 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Agency seeks new bids for areas that did not attract enough interest first time round.
  
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• The Cosby accusers were taught to be silent. We must learn to hear rape victims | Ijeoma Oluo

  28-07-2015 18:15
  
  If we want to end rape culture and stop hurting rape victims, loved ones can’t continue sending messages of silenceThere are millions of women and men waiting until it is safe to tell their story of sexual abuse. 35 women came forward in this week’s New York Magazine to share their stories of being allegedly assaulted by Bill Cosby. The article features a picture of the women staring us in the face, daring us to confront our complicity in this. It also included an empty chair for the women w
  
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• Disgruntled judge leaves case with parting shot for BA

  28-07-2015 17:45 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Judge Peter Smith claims airline deliberately left behind his and a planeload of passengers’ luggage in a bid ‘to maximise profits’.
  
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• Disgruntled High Court judge leaves case with parting shot for BA

  28-07-2015 17:45 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Judge Peter Smith claims airline deliberately left behind his and a planeload of passengers’ luggage in a bid ‘to maximise profits’.
  
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• Ex-prisoner barred from helping young offenders change their lives

  28-07-2015 17:44
  
  Trevor Hercules, who advised former justice secretary Chris Grayling, criticises decision to revoke access to prisons after he failed MoJ checks A former armed robber who helps direct youngsters away from their life of crime is being refused access to prisons.Trevor Hercules, who spent more than a decade behind bars, has been blocked by the Ministry of Justice from delivering talks to young offenders. Related: Trevor Hercules: on a mission to help young black men avoid prison | Duncan CampbellCo
  
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• SRA chief urges caution over legal regulation reform

  28-07-2015 16:57 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Statement comes after both the justice secretary and oversight regulator suggested change may be necessary.
  
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• Sharia law bans forced marriages - Belfast Telegraph

  28-07-2015 16:06
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  Sharia law bans forced marriages
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  Believe it or not, the UK Government has been happily implementing Sharia law for more than a year. On June 16, 2014, parliament passed a law which criminalised forced marriages. This might be a surprise to a lot of people, but Islamic Sharia law ...en meer »
  
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• Daughter’s £164k will victory ‘consistent with law’, say lawyers

  28-07-2015 14:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Court of Appeal awards a woman money from her mother’s estate after she was expressly excluded from the will.
  
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• Daughter’s £164k will victory ‘consistent with law’, say experts

  28-07-2015 14:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Court of Appeal awards a woman money from her mother’s estate after she was expressly excluded from the will.
  
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• Relationships with undercover officers wreck lives. The lies must stop | Lisa Jones and Kate Wilson

  28-07-2015 13:47
  
  Discovering Mark Kennedy’s true identity turned our lives upside down. The public inquiry into police spying must offer full and frank disclosureWe are two of the group of eight women taking legal action against the commissioner of the Metropolitan police. We were both deceived into having long-term intimate relationships with the undercover police officer Mark Kennedy after he appeared on the environmental activist social scene in Nottingham in 2003. Yet over a decade later and following four
  
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• Some violence is targeted just at women and girls – we can’t ignore that | Alison Saunders

  28-07-2015 13:41
  
  Our reporting does include male victims, but the law must reflect the fact that the vast majority of some crimes are still committed by men against womenAs director of public prosecutions, I have made it absolutely clear that my focus is on improving the experience of criminal justice for victims – all victims. I do not differentiate in our treatment of victims – male or female, adult or child, current or non-recent. But what is also clear is that some offending is based on gender. Violence
  
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• Some violence is targeted at women and girls – we can’t ignore that | Alison Saunders

  28-07-2015 13:41
  
  Our reporting does include male victims, but the law must reflect the fact that the vast majority of some crimes are still committed by men against womenAs director of public prosecutions, I have made it absolutely clear that my focus is on improving the experience of criminal justice for victims – all victims. I do not differentiate in our treatment of victims – male or female, adult or child, current or non-recent. But what is also clear is that some offending is based on gender. Violence
  
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• Denying prisoners legal aid may be illegal, appeal court rules

  28-07-2015 13:10
  
  Inmates with mental health problems or learning difficulties could be disadvantaged by removal of legal representation, says courtDenying prisoners in England and Wales legal aid so they can effectively challenge the conditions under which they are held could be illegal, the court of appeal has ruled. Senior judges have granted two charities – the Howard League for Penal Reform and the Prisoners’ Advice Service (PAS) – permission to bring a fresh case questioning the legality of budgetary
  
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• Firm fined for related business disclosure lapse

  28-07-2015 13:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Freeman Harris referred clients to a medical reporting company owned by a partner.
  
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• Lawyer labels Gaddafi sentence 'judicially sanctioned execution' - Yahoo News UK - Yahoo News UK

  28-07-2015 12:24
  
  Lawyer labels Gaddafi sentence 'judicially sanctioned execution' - Yahoo News UK
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  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The lawyer representing Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the slain Libyan leader, before the International Criminal Court condemned as a "show trial" the proceedings leading up to the death sentence that was passed on him in Tripoli ...en meer »
  
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• France and the UK are on the edge of Kafkaesque surveillance

  28-07-2015 12:19
  
  Surveillance laws being debated around the world should avoid the recent fate of the French – and the scorn of Franz KafkaThe problem of our laws, wrote Kafka, is that they can involve arbitrary, secretive acts on the part of elites. The law, on this view, has “brought only slight, more or less accidental benefits, and done a great deal of serious harm, since it has given the people a false sense of security towards coming events, and left them helplessly exposed”. “We live”, Kafka con
  
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• Action day 28: SRA issues warning over legal aid action

  28-07-2015 11:50 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulator concerned solicitors following new protocol for action may not be acting in clients’ best interests.
  
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• Litvinenko judge criticises suspect's 'charade'

  28-07-2015 11:36
  
  Sir Robert Owen, leading the inquiry into spy’s death, says that Dmitry Kovtun either never intended to give evidence or ‘obstacles were put in his way’Claims by a suspect in the killing of Alexander Litvinenko that he wanted to give evidence to the inquiry into the spy’s death may have been a “charade”, the judge leading the probe has said.Dmitry Kovtun was due to provide testimony by video link from Moscow but withdrew at the 11th hour. Continue reading...
  
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• Rupert Murdoch's Times wins right to use 'Irish edition' in Ireland

  28-07-2015 11:34
  
  Judge rules that Irish Times delayed too long in seeking injunction over title The Times has won its legal battle in the Dublin high court for the right to promote its new digital newspaper for Ireland as its “Irish edition”.A judge refused to grant the Irish Times an injunction on the basis that the use of the phrase “The Times Irish Edition” amounted to an infringement of the Irish Times’s trademark. Continue reading...
  
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• Black Britons face a double whammy – failed race relations law, now budget cuts | Kehinde Andrews

  28-07-2015 11:22
  
  The 2000 act was a chance to fundamentally address racism in Britain, but little has changed – and budget cuts are making things worseOn Sunday, the Runnymede Trust released a report highlighting that ethnic minorities will be badly hit by George Osborne’s latest budget. The Treasury responded by claiming that it had “fully considered equality impacts on different protected groups”, words robotically reproduced from the Race Relations (Amendment) Act (RRAA) of 2000. The act is one o
  
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• 'Cassie's Law' Causes 609 UK Drivers To Lose Their Driver's Licenses - The Inquisitr

  28-07-2015 09:40
  
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  'Cassie's Law' Causes 609 UK Drivers To Lose Their Driver's Licenses
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  Roadside eye tests in the UK have caused more than 600 drivers to lose their licenses under the new “Cassie's Law.” Now mandatory eye tests are the order of the day for UK drivers, who can be fined if they refuse to take them. Cassie's Law came about ...en meer »
  
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• World's most popular song is not under copyright, according to lawsuit

  28-07-2015 09:23
  
  Film-makers suing music publisher Warner Chappell say they have found proof that Happy Birthday is not covered by copyrightYou may have noticed something very strange about birthdays in movies and on TV. Namely, that the lucky recipient of the presents rarely has Happy Birthday sung to them – instead they might get For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow, a song only heard in movies and on TV. That’s because Happy Birthday – often claimed to be the world’s most popular song – has been under cop
  
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• Permit problems – the UK law harming club captures, foreign futures and ... - BackPageFootball

  28-07-2015 08:52
  
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  Permit problems – the UK law harming club captures, foreign futures and ...
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  We've all done it. Loaded up Football Manager, scouted some of The Americas' greatest talents, submitted offers and agreed terms, only for the move to be denied by the failure to secure a work permit. The new Lionel Messi, Kaka's clone, Ronaldinho's ...
  
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• Can busines make profits and improve employee rights and wellbeing?

  28-07-2015 08:00
  
  Although many businesses strive to create a better environment for employees, profitability and workers’ rights rarely appear so neatly matched in real lifeIn a globalised labour market characterised by outsourcing, low wages and minimal workplace guarantees, is there any space for promoting the social wellbeing and interests of employees? Yes, if you want to safeguard the profitability of your business, argued a number of panel guests at a recent roundtable debate hosted by the Guardian, in p
  
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• Can business make profits and improve employee rights and wellbeing?

  28-07-2015 08:00
  
  Although many businesses strive to create a better environment for employees, profitability and workers’ rights rarely appear so neatly matched in real lifeIn a globalised labour market characterised by outsourcing, low wages and minimal workplace guarantees, is there any space for promoting the social wellbeing and interests of employees? Yes, if you want to safeguard the profitability of your business, argued a number of panel guests at a recent roundtable debate hosted by the Guardian, in p
  
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• Daughter wins £164,000 after decade-long legal battle over will with charities

  28-07-2015 01:55
  
  Court of appeal increases Heather Ilott’s share of inheritance after she fell out with her mother, who left her entire estate to three animal charities
  After a decade-long legal fight with three animal welfare charities over her mother’s decision to cut her out of any inheritance, a poverty-stricken daughter has finally been awarded £164,000 by senior judges.
  The ruling by the court of appeal is further evidence that wills deemed to be unreasonable can be overturned or varied by the co
  
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