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• The Latest: Lawyer for Pennsylvania AG calls charges moot - Yahoo News UK

  24-08-2015 21:59
  The Latest: Lawyer for Pennsylvania AG calls charges moot
  Yahoo News UK
  A lawyer for Pennsylvania's attorney general says charges that she used her position to smear a civil rights leader's reputation are moot because he'd already been the subject of negative newspaper articles. Attorney Gerald Shargel sparred with a judge ...en meer »
  

• Court charges make a mockery of justice | Letters

  24-08-2015 20:21
  I have given in my resignation as a magistrate as I can no longer abide by the judicial oath “will do right to all manner of people after the laws and usages of this realm, without fear or favour, affection or ill will”. At my last sitting I sat on two cases. The first involved a theft of £5.86 and resulted in a total financial imposition of £385 for an unemployed young man. The second was an unemployed young man who put excessive toilet roll down a police-cell toilet and
  
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• We need Geneva convention for the internet, says new UN privacy chief

  24-08-2015 17:08
  Joseph Cannataci, says threat to public’s privacy is worse than anything Orwell could have foreseen and describes British data protection as ‘a joke’The first UN privacy chief has said the world needs a “Geneva convention for theinternet” to safeguard data and combat the threat of massive clandestine digital surveillance.Speaking to the Guardian weeks after his appointment as the UN special rapporteur on privacy, Joseph Cannataci singled out British data protection
  
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• Digital surveillance 'worse than Orwell' says new UN privacy chief

  24-08-2015 17:08
  Joseph Cannataci describes UK data protection as ‘a joke’ and says a Geneva convention for the internet is neededThe first UN privacy chief has said the world needs a “Geneva convention for the internet” to safeguard data and combat the threat of massive clandestine digital surveillance.Speaking to the Guardian weeks after his appointment as the UN special rapporteur on privacy, Joseph Cannataci singled out British data protection as being “a joke”, and said t
  
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• Practitioner groups defend boycott suspension

  24-08-2015 17:05 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Nationwide action was called off on Friday as ‘goodwill gesture’ to the Ministry of Justice.
  
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• Practitioner groups defend action suspension

  24-08-2015 17:05 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Nationwide boycott was called off on Friday as ‘goodwill gesture’ to the Ministry of Justice.
  
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• Soviet dissident sues Crown Prosecution Service, alleging libel

  24-08-2015 16:41
  Vladimir Bukovsky issues high court writ claiming CPS defamed him, and seeks £100,000 in damages The veteran Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky is suing the Crown Prosecution Service for libel over a statement it issued in April announcing that he was being charged with child pornography offences. Bukovsky has strenuously denied the allegations and on Monday took the unusual step of issuing a writ against the CPS in the high court in London. He is seeking £100,000 in damages.Continue
  
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• Strong dollar hits profits at Baker & McKenzie

  24-08-2015 13:28 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  World’s biggest firm by revenue expects year of investment to bear fruit in 2016.
  
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• US assisted suicide law has been a disaster, says senior Oregon doctor - Catholic Herald Online

  24-08-2015 11:45
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  US assisted suicide law has been a disaster, says senior Oregon doctor
  Catholic Herald Online
  The legalisation of assisted suicide in Oregon was a “mistake”, a senior doctor in the US State has declared. The 20-year law is lauded as a model of best practice by assisted suicide campaigners in the UK who hope that the House of Commons will ...en meer »
  

• McKenzie friend jailed for £5,000 fraud scheme

  24-08-2015 10:11 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Fraudster targeted victims who had been denied legal aid funding.
  
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• Migrant who walked through Channel Tunnel to face charges under 1861 law - Express.co.uk

  24-08-2015 09:24
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  Migrant who walked through Channel Tunnel to face charges under 1861 law
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  A MIGRANT who tried to get into the UK by walking the length of the channel tunnel is to be charged with a VICTORIAN era offence in an attempt to bring him to justice. By Peter Henn. PUBLISHED: 08:15, Mon, Aug 24, 2015 | UPDATED: 08:20, Mon, Aug 24, ...en meer »
  

• British rights activist charged with defamation in Thailand

  24-08-2015 09:20
  Andy Hall could face seven years in jail over report alleging human rights and labour abuses at Thai fruit producerBritish rights activist Andy Hall has been charged with criminal defamation in Thailand after he researched a report that alleged labour abuses at the Natural Fruit Company, a large Thai pineapple wholesaler that supplies the EU.The Bangkok south criminal court decided on Monday to indict the migrants’ rights researcher in a case that has been condemned as an attempt to gag th
  
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• Rise in divorce cases signals mediation failure

  24-08-2015 09:04 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Number of new private law cases has risen year-on-year for the third month in a row, figures from Cafcass show.
  
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• Industry Reactions to the Proposed Sunday Trading Law Changes [UK News] - Business 2 Community

  24-08-2015 06:08
  Industry Reactions to the Proposed Sunday Trading Law Changes [UK News]
  Business 2 Community
  Over the past few months businesses and consumers have been weighing up the pros and cons surrounding the proposed changes to UK Sunday trading laws which currently restrict opening times and the amount of time customers have to go and make their ...
  

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