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• Nudity isn’t indecent. It’s a British tradition | Philip Hoare

  04-09-2015 20:05
  
  It is hypocritical to keep jailing the Naked Rambler when some of our greatest minds had a taste for getting their kit offStephen Gough, the Naked Rambler, spends 10 years in prison. A 14-year-old schoolboy’s future is blighted for at least a decade because of a naked selfie. What’s “indecent” here – a person wearing no clothes, or a hypocritical society? Surely there’s nothing more seemly than the human body. “Nature has but little clay, like that of wh
  
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• 'Necrophilia legislator' on a crusade to outlaw loophole of arcane era

  04-09-2015 18:28
  
  Massachusetts bans crimes against chastity, morality, decency and good order but does not include sex with a dead person – Aaron Vega wants to change thatNecrophilia, the act of having sexual intercourse or sexual contact with a dead body, is still technically legal in many American states. In Massachusetts, one politician is trying to get that changed.Aaron Vega, a 45-year-old state representative from Massachusetts, did not particularly want to go down in history as the “necrophili
  
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• By denying poor people justice, we are denying ourselves a functioning justice system

  04-09-2015 17:00
  
  It isn’t just about innocent people being found guilty, but young barristers and judges being denied the cases they need to cut their teeth onYoung people today. It’s widely understood that they’re getting a raw deal. They’re saddled with lots of debt if they opt for higher education, or often, poor pay and conditions if they don’t. Property prices are so high in parts of the country, and social housing so scarce, that renting their own place, let alone owni
  
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• Bitcoin Spam Tests 'Could Violate UK Law' - CoinDesk

  04-09-2015 15:49
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  Bitcoin Spam Tests 'Could Violate UK Law'
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  The bitcoin stress tests planned by CoinWallet could breach UK law, a legal professional has suggested. The claim was first posted on Reddit yesterday, with user 'btcdrak' asserting: "The Computer Misuse Act 1990 in the United Kingdom makes it an ...en meer »
  

• Elite UK law firms lose market share to US rivals - Financial Times

  04-09-2015 15:12
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  Elite UK law firms lose market share to US rivals
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  Elite UK law firms are losing market share to their US rivals, which have been expanding aggressively in London on the back of US corporate deals, research shows. The UK's top 100 law firms saw combined turnover fall to £20.64bn in its 2015 results ...en meer »
  

• We will see plenty more 'law-breakers' going to jail in the name of religious ... - Catholic Herald Online (blog)

  04-09-2015 15:11
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  We will see plenty more 'law-breakers' going to jail in the name of religious ...
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  While Britain and the rest of Europe are taken up with the refugee crisis, in America the culture war has taken a new turn, though you would be lucky to spot this from reading the British press or watching our television news. What has happened is this ...en meer »
  

• Insurer invokes ‘fundamental dishonesty’ to see off claims

  04-09-2015 14:41 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Case follows on from pair being jailed for their part in an exaggerated claim.
  
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• Lawyer: Vice News journalists face deportation from Turkey - Yahoo News UK

  04-09-2015 14:13
  Lawyer: Vice News journalists face deportation from Turkey
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  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- A lawyer says two Vice News journalists who were arrested on terror-related charges are expected to be deported from Turkey. The two British journalists, correspondent Jake Hanrahan and cameraman Philip Pendlebury, were ...en meer »
  

• Digital defence system ‘will cut red tape’

  04-09-2015 14:07 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Criminal defence solicitors will be able to download initial disclosure of the prosecution case.
  
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• The book I'm sending a prisoner

  04-09-2015 14:00
  
  This week, the government lifted the ban on sending books to prisoners in the UK. We ask former prisoners and relatives which titles they are planning to post to incarcerated friends and family – and whyErwin James: Books kept me alive in prison
  Readers’ panel: experiences of books in prisonAlmost two years after the former justice secretary Chris Grayling banned prisoners from receiving parcels containing books, the ban has finally been lifted.
  Writers flocked to join a campaign lau
  
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• Apprenticeships for solicitors set for 2016

  04-09-2015 12:46 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The government has approved standards for the new legal apprenticeship route as part of its Trailblazer scheme.
  
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• Chancery Lane censures SRA over ‘flawed’ PII proposals

  04-09-2015 12:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Society says the regulator’s recent paper fails to address why last year’s proposals on indemnity cover had foundered.
  
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• Business dispute resolution plans could have ‘unintended effects’ – Society

  04-09-2015 11:55 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society says government proposals for a small-business commissioner need further consideration.
  
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• Lawyers give thousands to Syria refugee appeal

  04-09-2015 09:54 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Billable hour campaign raises £5,000 within 90 minutes of being created.
  
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