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• Paraguayan 11-year-old gives birth after pregnancy sparked abortion debate

  13-08-2015 23:09
  Though neither the girl nor her daughter experienced health complications during delivery, activists refuse to excuse authorities for human rights violationAn 11-year old girl who became pregnant after being raped by her stepfather and was denied an abortion by Paraguayan authorities has given birth, in the culmination of a case which put renewed focus on Latin America’s strict anti-abortion laws. The girl, known by the legal pseudonym “Mainumby”, gave birth to a girl weighing 3.55kg at th
  
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• Notorious inmate's lawyer says officials knew he was target - Yahoo News UK

  13-08-2015 23:09
  
  Notorious inmate's lawyer says officials knew he was target
  Yahoo News UK
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Hugo Pinell, a notorious killer with ties to the 1960s and 1970s black revolutionary movement, spent the last 45 years in California's prison isolation units partly for his own protection. Just days after he was moved into ...en meer »
  
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• Venezuela releases former general-turned-Chavez critic: lawyer - Yahoo News UK

  13-08-2015 21:02
  
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  Venezuela releases former general-turned-Chavez critic: lawyer
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  A former Venezuelan defense minister and ally-turned-critic of the late president Hugo Chavez has been released on parole after spending more than six years in prison on corruption charges, his lawyer said Thursday. Raul Isaias Baduel, who was ...en meer »
  
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• Health law sign-ups keep growing; uninsured rate declines - Yahoo News UK

  13-08-2015 20:15
  
  Health law sign-ups keep growing; uninsured rate declines
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  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a million people signed up for health insurance under President Barack Obama's law even after the official enrollment season ended, helping push the share of uninsured Americans below 10 percent and underscoring how hard ...en meer »
  
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• Eritrean asylum seeker admits to Ikea double murder: lawyer - Yahoo News UK

  13-08-2015 19:45
  
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  Eritrean asylum seeker admits to Ikea double murder: lawyer
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  An Eritrean man facing deportation has admitted to the double stabbing murder of a mother and son at an Ikea store in Sweden this week, his lawyer said Thursday. "The man has admitted to the two murders," the TT news agency quoted lawyer Per-Ingvar ...en meer »
  
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• Connecticut court overturns death penalty and spares death row inmates

  13-08-2015 18:34
  Ruling comes in appeal arguing it would be cruel and unusual punishment to execute those inmates following 2012 law to repeal death penalty for future crimesThree years after Connecticut abolished the death penalty for any future crimes, the state’s highest court on Thursday spared the lives of all 11 men who were already on death row when the law took effect, saying it would be unconstitutional to execute them.
  The ruling comes in an appeal from Eduardo Santiago, whose attorneys had argued th
  
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• Connecticut supreme court overturns death penalty

  13-08-2015 17:52
  No details yet on what will happen to the 11 men currently on death rowState has executed only one person since 1960Connecticut’s highest court has overturns the death penalty in the state, calling it unconstitutional.It is unclear what will happen to the 11 men currently on the state’s death row. In 2012, Connecticut passed a law to repeal the death penalty, but only applied it to future cases.Continue reading...
  
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• Action day 44: 'alternative savings' options revealed

  13-08-2015 17:36 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lord Chancellor to be briefed on proposals next week as practitioner groups urge restraint on public comments.
  
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• Egyptian officials could face London arrest over massacres, say lawyers

  13-08-2015 16:57
  Rights lawyers may seek arrest warrants against members of regime after David Cameron invited president for bilateral talks in UKSenior officials in Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s regime in Egypt could face arrest for crimes against humanity if they take up a UK government invitation to visit London, human rights lawyers say.
  The warning comes a day before the second anniversary of the massacre of more than 800 protesters outside Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque, the worst of three mass killings of su
  
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• Chelsea could be sued for constructive dismissal over Eva Carneiro row

  13-08-2015 16:09
  • Club doctor has been demoted from her role at Premier League champions
  • Legal expert: criticism could amount to ‘public humiliation’Eva Carneiro, the Chelsea doctor demoted after José Mourinho reacted furiously to her treating the midfielder Eden Hazard in the closing minutes of Saturday’s 2-2 draw with Swansea, could have a case to sue the club for constructive dismissal.Nick Wilcox, a lawyer at the specialist employment firm Brahams Dutt Badrick French, said Carneiro appear
  
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• Two ex-members of same firm sanctioned by SRA

  13-08-2015 16:08 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Misconduct included making payments to witnesses and using photocopied signature of a team leader.
  
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• Two ex-members of same firm prosecuted by SRA

  13-08-2015 16:08 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Misconduct included making payments to witnesses and using photocopied signature of a team leader.
  
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• Last-minute lack of transparency weakens sustainable development goals

  13-08-2015 15:18
  The backroom deals and pressure campaigns at the end of SDG negotiations call into question the legitimacy of the goals, says Bhumika MuchhalaOn Sunday 2 August, the 193 countries which make up the UN agreed to a document that will shape the next 15 years of international development policy and action.Hailed “the people’s agenda” by UN secretary-general Ban-Ki moon, the sustainable development goals (SDGs), have taken some two years to negotiate. The SDGs in their final form will be agreed
  
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• Ombudsman hires barrister for 'strong leadership' role

  13-08-2015 14:31 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Former chief Crown prosecutor and Royal Navy officer to join as chief executive from IPCC. 
  
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• 'No, Mr Lawyer, we expected you to die'

  13-08-2015 13:02 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Claimant lawyers have found a way to survive, and insurers are miffed.
  
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• Diplomat shunned daughter and 'threatened to kill' grandchild

  13-08-2015 12:24
  Case brought by local authority after young mother taken into care after being harassed by her father – an envoy from an unnamed Commonwealth country A foreign diplomat allegedly “threatened to kill” a grandchild born to his unmarried daughter in the UK, the high court has heard.
  A family division judge said issues of diplomatic immunity had arisen because a local authority in London wanted court orders to provide the daughter, now almost 17, and her five-month-old baby with a home and ade
  
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• CBA chair tells solicitors: 'Time to show your solidarity'

  13-08-2015 12:24 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Tony Cross QC urges action as London firms mull proposal to withdraw legal aid contract bids.
  
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• DMU's Business and Law students among the most satisfied in the UK - De Montfort University (press release)

  13-08-2015 10:49
  DMU's Business and Law students among the most satisfied in the UK
  De Montfort University (press release)
  Students at De Montfort University Leicester's (DMU) Business and Law Faculty |averaged more than 94 per cent for satisfaction in a national survey – suggesting that they are among the most satisfied students in the UK. The National Student Survey 2015 ...en meer »
  
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• 'Azerbaijan is turning into a dictatorship – we shouldn't fall for its caviar diplomacy'

  13-08-2015 07:00
  After a lifetime fighting for human rights, Leyla and Arif Yunus face a decade in jail. How can Europe turn a blind eye, asks Souhayr Belhassen?Almost two months to the day since the opulent opening ceremony of the European Games in Baku, the trial of human rights activists Leyla and Arif Yunus is expected to end tomorrow with lengthy sentences for both.Charged with large-scale fraud, forgery, tax evasion and illegal entrepreneurship, Leyla Yunus, the director of the Institute of Peace and Democ
  
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• 'Azerbaijan is turning into a dictatorship – we shouldn't fall for its caviar diplomacy'

  13-08-2015 07:00
  After a lifetime fighting for human rights, Leyla and Arif Yunus face a decade in jail. How can Europe turn a blind eye, asks Souhayr Belhassen?Almost two months to the day since the opulent opening ceremony of the European Games in Baku, the trial of human rights activists Leyla and Arif Yunus is expected to end tomorrow with lengthy sentences for both.Charged with large-scale fraud, forgery, tax evasion and illegal entrepreneurship, Leyla Yunus, the director of the Institute of Peace and Democ
  
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• Law Society of Scotland opens door to non-solicitors

  13-08-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Extension of membership announced as part of five-year strategy launched today.
  
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