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• Law firm 'makes no apology' following Daily Mail attack

  12-08-2015 18:38 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Deighton Pierce Glynn posted response to investigation carried out by a national newspaper.
  
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• Private practice bid to boost social welfare law

  12-08-2015 17:22 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law firms are offering sponsorship towards seven training contracts at law centres, advice agencies and charities.
  
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• Assange lawyer: 'I'm still prepared to go to the UK' - The Local.se

  12-08-2015 17:12
  
  The Local.se
  Assange lawyer: 'I'm still prepared to go to the UK'
  The Local.se
  Sweden's prosecution authority has told The Local that it is "very unlikely" Julian Assange will be questioned in London before a Thursday deadline, but his chief lawyer in Sweden has said he'll drop everything to join his client in London if the ...en meer »
  
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• Barbara Calvert

  12-08-2015 15:56
  Distinguished barrister, judge and first female head of chambers who, after her retirement, became chair of the Grandparents’ AssociationDespite being 35 before she was called to the bar, Barbara Calvert QC, Lady Lowry, who has died aged 89, became not just a highly respected legal practitioner, but achieved a number of trailblazing firsts, and was an inspiration to other women. In the 1970s, increasingly concerned about the number of young people who were unable to get a place in chambers fro
  
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• Barbara Calvert obituary

  12-08-2015 15:56
  Distinguished barrister, judge and first female head of chambers who, after her retirement, became chair of the Grandparents’ AssociationDespite being 35 before she was called to the bar, Barbara Calvert QC, Lady Lowry, who has died aged 89, became not just a highly respected legal practitioner, but achieved a number of trailblazing firsts, and was an inspiration to other women. In the 1970s, increasingly concerned about the number of young people who were unable to get a place in chambers fro
  
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• Model jailed for false whiplash claim

  12-08-2015 14:56 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Amy Laban had pursued the case after receiving ‘numerous harassing calls’ from claims management company.
  
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• Profits soar at Bircham Dyson Bell

  12-08-2015 13:43 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  National firm reports profits up 18% on turnover up 10%.
  
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• Charities urged to seek specialist legal advice

  12-08-2015 13:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Organisation investigated after £27,000 loan offered to senior member of staff.
  
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• Spanish lawyer asks Britain to stop Karake from leaving UK (Includes interview) - Digital Journal

  12-08-2015 13:14
  
  Digital Journal
  Spanish lawyer asks Britain to stop Karake from leaving UK (Includes interview)
  Digital Journal
  A Spanish lawyer urged British authorities on Wednesday to stop Rwanda's spy chief from leaving the UK, after a London court rejected a bid to have him extradited to Spain to face charges of terrorism, murder and torture.en meer »
  
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• No college should ever ask for the sexual history of alleged rape victims | Jessica Valenti

  12-08-2015 12:45
  Virginia Wesleyan College is demanding that a former student reveal all of her past sexual partners in response to a lawsuit she filed against the schoolWhen a woman accuses a man of rape she can expect a certain amount of horror to follow: harassment from her community, victim-blaming nastiness about what she was wearing or drinking, the risk of her identity being revealed and the knowledge that her rapist will likely never be punished. Now it seems there’s one more worry to add to the list -
  
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• Action day 43: Gove to be briefed on savings ideas

  12-08-2015 12:17 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Practitioner groups present four options at latest meeting with Ministry of Justice officials.
  
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• Why climate change drove me to break the law - Greenpeace UK (blog)

  12-08-2015 11:56
  Greenpeace UK (blog)
  Why climate change drove me to break the law
  Greenpeace UK (blog)
  In September 2014, a group of greenpeace activists and volunteers stopped a coal train in Cottom, Nottingham. Here, James Cracknell explains why increasing concern about climate change drove him to take direct action. The confirmation has come through.
  
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• Unified patent court gets City home

  12-08-2015 11:40 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  London section of European court to be based in Aldgate.
  
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• Unified patent court gets a UK home

  12-08-2015 11:40 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  London section of European court to be based in Aldgate.
  
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• Enforce family court orders but don't jail debtors - Society

  12-08-2015 09:28 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Chancery Lane calls for more streamlined process for ensuring creditors are paid.
  
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• Iran refuses to free student activist Bahareh Hedayat after six years in jail

  12-08-2015 08:00
  Human rights campaigner held in Tehran’s Evin prison despite the fact she should have been freed in June, while her husband is threatened for speaking out
  Seven years ago this summer, everything was set for the marriage ceremony of a young Iranian couple who had met and fallen in love at university. On the day before the wedding, plain clothes officers raided the house of Bahareh Hedayat, a leading student activist, and took her to prison. It wasn’t a surprise, she had been arrested twice be
  
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• Mandatory bike helmet laws do more harm than good, Senate hears

  12-08-2015 07:28
  Inquiry into ‘nanny state’ laws told ‘helmets are utterly useless in collisions with motor vehicles’, are ‘inefficient’ and they discourage ridingAustralia’s mandatory helmet laws for cyclists should be abolished because they are deterring people from riding bikes and improving their health, a number of doctors and academics have told MPs.
  A Senate inquiry into “nanny state” laws, chaired by libertarian senator David Leyonhjelm, has heard that the requirement to wear a helmet i
  
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• UK prisons inspector seeks time limits on detention of migrants without trial

  12-08-2015 01:01
  Nick Hardwick calls for limit on administrative detention after unannounced inspection uncovers failures at Yarl’s Wood women’s centreThe chief prisons inspector has called for time limits on the detention of migrants without trial after fresh warnings of a significant deterioration in conditions at a controversial immigration removal centre for women.Nick Hardwick, the chief inspector of prisons, said the Serco-run Yarl’s Wood centre was of “national concern” after an unannounced insp
  
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• UK law student, New York firm to take over CentrePointe project - WKYT

  12-08-2015 00:13
  
  WKYT
  UK law student, New York firm to take over CentrePointe project
  WKYT
  LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - A University of Kentucky law student has teamed up with a New York investment group to take over the CentrePointe project. WKYT's Miranda Combs sat down with investors Tuesday afternoon to discuss the plan. They told WKYT ...en meer »
  
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