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• Egypt's Sisi approves anti-terrorism law creating special courts - Yahoo News UK

  17-08-2015 23:06
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  Egypt's Sisi approves anti-terrorism law creating special courts
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  Reuters/Reuters - A news photographer with her mouth taped and holds up her camera during a protest against the detention of Ahmed Ramadan, a photojournalist with Egyptian private newspaper "Tahrir", …more in front of the Syndicate of Journalists in ...
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• Trade union bill not backed by evidence | Letter from academics in industrial relations

  17-08-2015 20:54
  As academics in the field of industrial relations, we express our concern at the draconian provisions of the trade union bill which amount to the most sustained attack on trade union and workers’ rights since the Combination laws of the early 19th century. In addition to minimum thresholds that seriously curtail the possibility of legitimate strike action, the bill also attacks the ability of unions to represent their members (via facility time) and raise subscriptions (through employ
  
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• New EU inheritance law should prompt wills reviews, say experts

  17-08-2015 18:16 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Rules which came into force today could leave UK residents with assets in Europe unwittingly applying English law to their entire estate
  
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• Jasmer Singh Rai obituary

  17-08-2015 18:13
  My father, Jasmer Singh Rai, who has died aged 94, was a businessman who tackled racism and worked for employment rights.Son of Jaswant Singh and Tej Kaur, he was born in Moranwali, in the Punjab region of India, of Jat Sikh parentage, and arrived in Britain in 1955. He had, like his father, worked under the British Raj; his fluent English and quick mind had led to promotion as a civil supplies inspector. Continue reading...
  
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• Firms notified of failed legal aid contract bids

  17-08-2015 17:13 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal Aid Agency assesses applications for new criminal legal aid contracts to start in January.
  
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• Why I’m finally going to boycott Amazon

  17-08-2015 14:24
  Even though I will miss the convenience of buying stuff on my laptop in my pants, claims about its brutal office culture are the final strawFew things in life are as universally satisfying as a boycott. To the left, a boycott is the ultimate display of society in action; to the right, it confirms the market’s all-consuming power. To me, it’s just fun. It’s negging, basically – if you love something, ignore it until it comes cowering back promising to do better.My list of
  
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• Remove 'barristers' from Victims' Code, says Society

  17-08-2015 13:36 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society highlighted ’out of date’ references in response to government consultation.
  
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• Egypt's Sisi imposes tough anti-terrorism law - Yahoo News UK

  17-08-2015 13:35
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  Egypt's Sisi imposes tough anti-terrorism law
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  Under pressure from a jihadist insurgency, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has boosted police and judicial powers with a new anti-terrorism law that also imposes hefty fines for "false" media reports. Rights groups, which have accused Sisi of ...
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• Gun violence: who's accountable when a child is charged with manslaughter?

  17-08-2015 13:00
  An 11-year-old in Detroit is accused of accidentally shooting a toddler and though the prosecutor admits rarity of charge against a juvenile, observers say real problem is Michigan doesn’t have a Child Prevention Access lawAn 11-year-old boy was charged with manslaughter in Detroit this month for the fatal shooting of a three-year-old, after the boy allegedly found a gun at his father’s house.Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy said in a statement of the charges that “very unfor
  
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• Ali Smith hits out at 'obscenity' of scrapping Human Rights Act

  17-08-2015 11:40
  Delivering English PEN’s annual HG Wells lecture, novelist declares plan for a UK bill of rights as ‘evolution going backwards’The Baileys prize-winning novelist Ali Smith has defended the Human Rights Act, describing government plans to replace it with a UK bill of rights as “evolution going backwards”.Delivering the second annual English PEN HG Wells lecture, the Scottish writer spoke of her despair at the treatment of migrants and told her audience at the Edinbur
  
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• Six appeal against convictions linked to Mazher Mahmood's stories

  17-08-2015 11:25
  In the wake of the collapse of the Tulisa Contostavlos trial, they argue that there are ‘serious concerns’ over the safety of their convictionsSix people caught in sting operations by the former News of the World investigations editor, Mazher Mahmood, are seeking leave to appeal against convictions resulting from stories about them in the newspaper.A lawyer acting for the six, Siobhain Egan, argues in the preliminary grounds for appeal that there are “serious concerns” ov
  
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• Putting slavery firmly on development agenda is just the beginning | Kevin Hyland

  17-08-2015 08:00
  A call to end modern slavery is a worthy addition to the sustainable development goals, but nothing will change until the root causes of exploitation are tackledFrom India’s brick kilns to North Korean labour camps in Siberia – from fishing boats off the coast of Thailand to the enslavement of children in cannabis factories and nail bars across the UK – global awareness of the nature and scale of modern slavery is growing.Just as importantly, the understanding of slavery as a c
  
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• Practising solicitor numbers hit all-time high

  17-08-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Experts welcome new figures which show the legal profession appears more populated than ever.
  
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