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• Social recluse made £300,000 in internet scam run from his bedroom

  25-08-2015 21:33
  Paul Mahoney, 30 and partially blind, put the movie industry at risk of losing £120 million, a court has heardA social recluse who ran an internet piracy scam from his bedroom put the movie industry at risk of losing £120m, a court has heard.Paul Mahoney, 30, made almost £300,000 through advertising revenue generated from illegal sites offering access to the latest films and TV shows – many before general release, a judge at a pre-sentence hearing was told. Continue readi
  
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• Rupert Hughes obituary

  25-08-2015 19:00
  Energetic senior civil servant determined to improve childcare lawWithin the tight world of Whitehall and the much wider world of child welfare, the senior civil servant Rupert Hughes, who has died aged 80, was a heroic figure. In the 1980s he was given unprecedented freedom within the Department of Health and Social Security to work on improving the wellbeing of the nation’s children, and the result was the 1989 Children Act. A radical piece of legislation, the act helped to unravel what
  
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• Tributes paid to stab-death solicitor

  25-08-2015 18:14 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Police treating death of criminal defence solicitor David Edwards as murder.
  
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• Judge blocks disclosure in death penalty case

  25-08-2015 18:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Police confidentiality outweighs interest of murder defendants in Thailand, High Court rules.  
  
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• Men accused of killing British tourists in Thailand refused access to Met report

  25-08-2015 17:00
  Burmese men Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo lose high court attempt to view Scotland Yard report into Thai investigation of murders of David Miller and Hannah WitheridgeTwo Burmese men accused of the murder of two British tourists in Thailand in September 2014 have lost a high court challenge that sought access to a secret report by Scotland Yard on the Thai police investigation into their alleged crimes.
  Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo – also known as Win Zaw Htun – are standing trial on the island of Ko
  
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• Serial: Adnan Syed's lawyer uncovers new evidence - The Week UK

  25-08-2015 16:31
  The Week UK
  Serial: Adnan Syed's lawyer uncovers new evidence
  The Week UK
  Key mobile phone data used to prosecute Adnan Syed, the subject of last year's popular Serial podcast, should have been excluded in his trial, his lawyer has argued. See related. Serial podcast review: what we learnt from episode 10 · Serial podcast ...en meer »
  

• LSB approves cab rank rule changes

  25-08-2015 15:49
  
  The proposal effectively replaces the list of defaulting solicitors.
  
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• Police urge public not to approach violent absconded criminal

  25-08-2015 15:35
  Police say John Rooney, 47, was serving a sentence for kidnap and robbery when he walked out of an open prison in Buckinghamshire Police have warned the public not to approach a convicted violent criminal who absconded from an open prison in Buckinghamshire on Monday.
  Thames Valley police say that John Rooney, 47, who is less than half way through a 27-year sentence for kidnap and robbery, walked out of HMP Spring Hill in Aylesbury on Monday. Continue reading...
  
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• Departing forensic specialist highlights legal aid plight

  25-08-2015 14:36 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Contact Traces said solicitors face daily struggle to help clients understand evidence.
  
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• Kaplan Law School shuts down LPC and GDL

  25-08-2015 13:44 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Training company pulls flagship courses after posting losses totalling almost £1m in two years.
  
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• Jail for claims director who faked boys' medical reports

  25-08-2015 10:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Samir Kahn and family members are thought to have gained almost £25,000 from claims.
  
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• Locking up more petty criminals is not an efficient way to tackle crime

  25-08-2015 09:50
  In a time of stretched resources, it’s odd that more cases are going through the courts. We need to learn from youth and European criminal justice systemsThe Ministry of Justice appears to be celebrating the record number of prison sentences given to sex offenders in 2014 – more than 6,000 were convicted, up 10% on 2013. But the government also seems keen to publicise that prison sentences for all offenders were longer, that a smaller proportion of serious offences were given a commu
  
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• Number of most dangerous prisoners in special units doubles – report

  25-08-2015 01:01
  Twice as many men are in ‘jail within a jail’ close supervision centres in England as in 2005, half of them Muslim, says chief inspectorThe number of the most dangerous male prisoners in England being held in a special “jail within a jail” system has doubled over the past decade, inspectors have revealed.The first thematic inspection report of the system of close supervision centres in high-security prisons since 2006 also found more than half of those held in special con
  
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• Firms using illegal migrant labour face 48-hour closures

  25-08-2015 01:01
  New powers to revoke trading licences also included in bill aimed at creating ‘hostile environment’ for unauthorised workers
  Powers for 48-hour shutdowns of businesses suspected of employing illegal workers are to be included in a new immigration bill designed to create a “hostile environment” for undocumented migrants in Britain.The new package of measures will also include powers to remove the trading licences of late-night takeaways, pubs and off-licences which fail to
  
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