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• The Guardian view on Alphabet: it will take more than Google to translate the restructuring | Editorial

  11-08-2015 20:49
  Business mostly thinks the new look is smart. But regulators and privacy campaigners are not so sureGoogle is the same size today as it was at the start of the week, it just doesn’t feel like that. The behemoth that is valued on Wall Street, give or take a few dollars, at $350bn is to be reconfigured so that its big money-spinning Google-related businesses like Search, YouTube, Chrome, Android and GoogleMaps remain part of Google, and its proliferating “moonshot” projects like its high-spe
  
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• Amnesty approves policy to decriminalise sex trade

  11-08-2015 20:36
  Rejecting complaints by women’s groups, international rights body approves resolution to recommend decriminalising consensual sex workAmnesty International has approved a controversial policy to endorse the decriminalisation of the sex trade. At its decision-making forum in Dublin, the human rights watchdog approved the resolution to recommend “full decriminalisation of all aspects of consensual sex work.”Continue reading...
  
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• CoA backs compromise of privilege in death-threat case

  11-08-2015 17:17 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Rampton hospital right to insist 'exceptionally dangerous individual' be handcuffed to nurses during legal consultations. 
  
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• Swiss lawyer Francois Carrard to lead FIFA reform process - Belfast Telegraph

  11-08-2015 16:53
  
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  Swiss lawyer Francois Carrard to lead FIFA reform process
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  The man credited with cleaning up the International Olympic Committee after the Salt Lake City scandal, Francois Carrard, has been appointed to carry out a similar job at FIFA. Ads by Google. Dr Carrard has been appointed as the independent chairman of ...en meer »
  
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• The mother who defends Stop and Frisk: 'What about my dead son’s civil rights?'

  11-08-2015 15:54
  Akeal Christopher was shot and killed three years ago in Brooklyn. Now, his mother is calling for a return to the controversial police practice: ‘They took away Stop and Frisk and left us with nothing but streets full of guns’Akeal Christopher lay face down on a Brooklyn street, his legs twisted and convulsing from a bullet that rested deep in his brain. Minutes before, the 14-year-old and seven childhood friends had been walking down Cornelia Street in Bushwick. They walked in a loose line,
  
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• The Lithuanian ‘slaves’ highlight the holes in Britain’s anti-trafficking strategy | Aidan McQuade

  11-08-2015 15:35
  Ministers may be proud of the Modern Slavery Act, but they ignore the pleas of organisations like mine to make it an issue of human rights as well as organised crimePerhaps the most remarkable thing about the Lithuanian workers who say they were treated like slaves on egg farms based in Kent is that their case came to light at all.The British government’s estimate is that there are 10,000 to 13,000 people in forced labour in the UK. Compare that to the trivial numbers of prosecutions, and it i
  
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• United Nations failing to represent vulnerable people, warn NGOs

  11-08-2015 15:01
  Civil society organisations say hold-ups at the NGO committee mean marginalised people are not being heard at the UN Vulnerable people are prevented from gaining representation at the United Nations by a committee dominated by countries with repressive regimes, according to concerned NGOs.
  Organisations have told the Guardian how they face lengthy hold-ups, bizarre questioning and intimidation as they negotiate with the UN committee on non-governmental organisations, the group which decides whic
  
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• CPS goes on hiring spree to deal with complex cases

  11-08-2015 15:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  At least 100 prosecutors sought to deal with ‘exceptional’ rise in areas such as sexual offences.
  
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• U-turn over GPS tagging cost in family case

  11-08-2015 14:04 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Ministry of Justice agrees to make an exception in funding the cost of providing electronic tagging in family proceedings.
  
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• Anti-abortion hysteria: the new norm for Republican presidential candidates | Scott Lemieux

  11-08-2015 13:15
  Formerly fringe views seeking to upend Roe v Wade are now mainstream talking points for prominent conservative politiciansRoe v Wade wasn’t overruled in the 1992 US supreme court case Planned Parenthood v Casey, but the justices did give states the power to regulate and restrict the procedure. In the years since, many states did make abortion much harder to obtain without officially outlawing it. But the pro-life movement means to push until restrictions turn into bans. And as the electoral pr
  
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• Insurance giant blames PI for £14m profits dip

  11-08-2015 12:59 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Claimant firms have 'worked out how to operate' under new regime, Esure tells press. 
  
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• Action day 42: London firms propose withdrawing bids

  11-08-2015 07:40 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Practitioner group surveys members to see if firms are willing to pull out of contract tender. 
  
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• Action day 42: London considers withdrawing bids

  11-08-2015 07:40 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Practitioner group surveys members to see if firms are willing to withdraw from tender scheme.
  
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• Azerbaijani journalist dies after criticising footballer on Facebook

  11-08-2015 07:00
  Player suspended by club during investigation into assault on reporter who condemned his behaviour on social mediaA journalist in Azerbaijan has died in hospital after being beaten up, apparently in response to a Facebook post about a footballer. Rasim Aliyev died in hospital on Sunday morning after he was attacked by six men on Saturday night.Related: Azerbaijan’s human rights are on a knife edge. The UK must not walk away | Thorbjørn JaglandRelated: Turning black gold into sporting gl
  
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• UK law firm leads tech trade mission to Singapore - Tech City News

  11-08-2015 06:48
  
  Tech City News
  UK law firm leads tech trade mission to Singapore
  Tech City News
  Cambridge based law firm Taylor Vinters has announced its third TechConnection event which will introduce high-growth UK technology companies to Singapore as a business gateway to Asia. Taylor Vinters is launching its third annual TechConnection ...en meer »
  
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