Lawyer news

• US demands release of Christian lawyer detained in China - Yahoo News UK

  01-09-2015 22:59
  US demands release of Christian lawyer detained in China
  Yahoo News UK
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States demanded Tuesday that China release a well-known Christian lawyer and religious figures who were detained last month ahead of a meeting with a visiting senior U.S. diplomat. In addition, the U.S. urged China, and ...en meer »
  

• Our right to choose assisted dying to ease the suffering | Letters

  01-09-2015 20:45
  
  Thursday will be the fifth anniversary of my wife Brenda’s death, almost exactly two years after being diagnosed with bowel cancer. She lived a remarkably full life almost to the last, but always said that if her condition became unbearable she would wish to be helped to end it. Fortunately, thanks to the excellent treatment she received from the NHS and the care provided in her last weeks by St Oswald’s Hospice in Newcastle, her worst fears were not realised.I understand the concern
  
  Read more

• Uganda NGO bill will be blow for LGBT rights | Letters

  01-09-2015 20:41
  
  The restrictive laws being imposed on NGOs, human rights organisations and campaign groups across the world hint at a rising tide of authoritarianism (Report, 27 August). This also raises serious concerns about the protection of free speech and expression. And for LGBT communities in the 78 jurisdictions worldwide that still criminalise homosexuality, this crackdown may be a case of life or death.In Uganda, the NGO bill, due to be debated next month in parliament, will make NGOs advocating for L
  
  Read more

• Tarek Server Move 1

  01-09-2015 20:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• NGO alert: Ugandan parliament debates controversial NGO bill

  01-09-2015 18:03
  
  A bill that seeks to limit the work of NGOs is currently being discussed by Uganda’s lawmakersWhere: Uganda
  What’s happening? Lawmakers in Uganda’s parliament are debating a bill that if passed into law would limit the work of NGOs in the country. Related: NGO alert: Malaysia government blocks internet and threatens to send army against Bersih rallyContinue reading...
  
  Read more

• Twitter: tweets in James Woods cocaine defamation case were 'hyperbole'

  01-09-2015 17:32
  
  Social media site fights legal bid to uncover the identities of users the combative rightwing actor says defamed him as a drug abuser and sex offender Twitter has rebuffed claims in a defamation lawsuit filed by the Hollywood actor James Woods, arguing that users who labelled the film star a “cocaine addict” and “registered sex offender” were simply engaging in “hyperbole”.Woods took the social media company to court on 28 August in an effort to force executiv
  
  Read more

• Four face charges over death of lawyer hit by window frame - The Guardian

  01-09-2015 16:46
  The Guardian
  Four face charges over death of lawyer hit by window frame
  The Guardian
  Amanda Telfer died after being pinned down by a heavy wooden window frame in central London. Photograph: Metropolitan police/PA. Damien Gayle · @damiengayle. Tuesday 1 September 2015 10.46 EDT Last modified on Tuesday 1 September 2015 ...en meer »
  

• Deadline extended for legal aid bid survey

  01-09-2015 14:53 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Practitioner groups extend deadline as solicitors await outcome of Ministry of Justice talks.
  
  Read more

• Taylor Wessing merges with Dutch firm

  01-09-2015 12:54 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Merger will give the firm new offices in Amsterdam and Eindhoven.
  
  Read more

• Turkey charges Vice News reporters with aiding terrorist group

  01-09-2015 12:10
  
  Court orders arrest pending trial of three journalists covering conflict in country’s south-eastA Turkish court has charged three journalists working with Vice News with “aiding a terrorist organisation” and ordered their arrest pending trial in a move that has caused indignation and outrage amongst journalists and international human rights groups.
  Correspondent Jake Hanrahan, cameraman Philip Pendlebury, their Turkey-based fixer and a driver were taken into police custody on
  
  Read more

• Jonathan Sumption: the brain of Britain – Podcast

  01-09-2015 12:00
  
  He terrified opponents as a stellar QC. Now he's a supreme court judge and revered historian – the establishment personified. So why is Jonathan Sumption not a household name?Click here for text version Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Leading Scottish firm goes under

  01-09-2015 10:34 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Glasgow, Edinburgh and London firm McClure Naismith goes into administration announces 42 redundancies.
  
  Read more

• Silencer used to kill Mexico photojournalist: lawyer - Yahoo News UK

  01-09-2015 00:54
  Yahoo News UK
  Silencer used to kill Mexico photojournalist: lawyer
  Yahoo News UK
  A silencer was used to kill a Mexican photojournalist and four women last month, a lawyer said, providing new details of a murder that drew a new international call for justice. Ruben Espinosa, social activist Nadia Vera and three other women were ...en meer »
  

Follow @Lawyer_UKnws on Twitter!