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• Corbyn to unveil 'Vision 2020' to end austerity with public investment plan

  02-08-2015 21:26
  
  Frontrunner in Labour leadership contest will flesh out his policy plans this week as Neil Kinnock and Peter Mandelson line up together to warn of Corbyn victoryJeremy Corbyn will brush aside warnings that he risks a return to the divisions of the 1980s when he outlines plans to end “the years of political and economic austerity” to help create a high-skilled workforce in Britain.As Neil Kinnock and Peter Mandelson found rare common ground over the weekend to warn of the dangers posed by a C
  
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• Iran uses fabricated WikiLeaks cable to smear UN rights rapporteur

  02-08-2015 18:51
  
  State-run agencies and semi-official websites run articles in effort to discredit Ahmed ShaheedIran has launched a sophisticated smear campaign against the UN special rapporteur investigating its human rights violations by widely spreading a fabricated WikiLeaks cable purporting to show he received bribes from Saudi Arabia.In a concerted effort aimed at discrediting Ahmed Shaheed in the eyes of the general public, Iranian state-run agencies and semi-official websites simultaneously carried artic
  
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• Anti-torture reforms opposed within psychology group after damning report

  02-08-2015 13:00
  
  Tempers rise within American Psychological Association, which independent review recently found was complicit in brutal military and CIA interrogationOpposition is building to intended anti-torture reforms within the largest professional organization of psychologists in the US, which faces a crossroads over what a recent report described as its past support for brutal military and CIA interrogations.Related: US torture doctors could face charges after report alleges post-9/11 'collusion'Related:
  
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• We hospice CEOs shouldn't stay silent – the sector must accept assisted dying

  02-08-2015 09:00
  
  I’m worried that if I speak out publicly about the change in the law we so badly need, it will alienate trustees, staff and donors
  I am a chief executive of a hospice and I believe that those with a terminal illness should be allowed to die when, or if, they choose to. I support new legislation concerning assisted dying – not instead of good hospice and palliative care, but as well as. Related: Confessions of a charity professional – we want your blogsRelated: I'm a charity chief executive
  
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• High Court allows charity to challenge immigration disclosure rule

  02-08-2015 01:14 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Prcedure rule allows tribunals to withold material or information from a party.
  
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• Lawyers Leigh Day: troublemakers who are a thorn in the side of multinationals

  02-08-2015 01:05
  
  International law firm led by self-confessedly ‘bolshie’ Martyn Day has carved out a reputation as the scourge of the corporationsSelf-confessed “bolshie bastard” Martyn Day and his team of hotshot young lawyers at Leigh Day can congratulate themselves on having won around £150m for tens of thousands of the poorest people on earth from some of the world’s richest companies.In the past decade, they have challenged Shell, Trafigura, BP, Xstrata, Anglo American and Unilever, as well
  
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