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• UK Midmarket Consolidation Continues With Pair of Mergers - The American Lawyer

  16-09-2015 21:27
  UK Midmarket Consolidation Continues With Pair of Mergers
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  The U.K. legal market continues to consolidate, with two London-based firms announcing domestic mergers this week. Leading global insurance law firm Clyde & Co, the U.K.'s 11th-largest firm by revenue, announced Wednesday its union with 45-partner ...
  

• Protecting workers’ rights within the EU | Letters

  16-09-2015 19:57
  
  The TUC would be shooting itself in the foot if it campaigns for a British exit from the European Union (Pressure on Labour over EU as union vote sounds alarm, 16 September). Changes to workers’ rights can be reversed and enhanced by future UK governments operating as a member of the EU much more easily than dealing with the likely economic fallout and consequences of such self-defeating isolationism. Though without electoral reform, the UK will remain in thrall to a dwindling Conservative
  
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• New UK Trade Union Bill Worst Attack to Workers' Rights since Thatcher ... - teleSUR English

  16-09-2015 19:08
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  New UK Trade Union Bill Worst Attack to Workers' Rights since Thatcher ...
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  Labor leaders have pledged to break the law and strike against the new bill. | Photo: AFP. Previous; Next. Published 16 September 2015. 0. Comments. We Recommend. UK Labour Leader Corbyn Appoints Majority Female Shadow Cabinet. Bolivia's Best ...
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• The privy council has no place in our democracy. Corbyn must challenge it | Graham Smith

  16-09-2015 17:16
  
  This secretive, archaic institution is a loophole in our constitutional safety net: the new Labour leader’s membership of it is a chance to make democratic changesIt’s difficult to make a case for social justice and equality on one bended knee, so my advice to Jeremy Corbyn would be to stay standing and to use his new position as a privy counsellor to make a couple of very clear statements about British democracy. First, that democratic values should be enshrined in all our instituti
  
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• Clyde & Co puts down roots in Scotland

  16-09-2015 17:07 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  International firm to merge with national practice Simpson & Marwick.
  
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• KitKat goes unprotected as European court rejects trademark case

  16-09-2015 16:28
  
  Nestlé failed to convince European court of justice that four-fingered version of its chocolate bar should be protected by lawNestlé has failed in an attempt to convince European judges to let it trademark the shape of the four-finger version of a KitKat in the UK.The European court of justice ruled that the KitKat’s shape was not distinctive enough for consumers to associate it with the chocolate covered wafer. Nestlé is not seeking to trademark its two-fingered versi
  
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• Shami Chakrabarti: trade union and human rights reforms are 'spiteful'

  16-09-2015 15:51
  
  Liberty director tells TUC conference that government plans are an ideological attack on the rights and freedoms of citizensShami Chakrabarti has accused ministers of attempting to dominate ordinary people through “spiteful” trade union and human rights reforms.The director of the civil rights organisation Liberty told delegates at the TUC conference on Wednesday that the government had launched an ideological attack by proposing to repeal the Human Rights Act and introduce the trade
  
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• Judge condemns Gloucestershire children’s services in foster case

  16-09-2015 13:45
  
  Family court judge criticises social workers’ decision to recommend adoption for six-year-old boy without having first explored other optionsA young mother, her unborn child and her six-year-old son who lives in foster care have all been failed by the “very poor practice” of Gloucestershire children’s services, according to a judge’s withering ruling.For the second time in six months, the judge, Stephen Wildblood QC, lambasted Gloucestershire county council for seri
  
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• Why do US courts still shackle children accused of minor crimes? | David LaBahn

  16-09-2015 13:15
  
  America continues to shackle children in juvenile courts, though few pose a flight or safety risk. This troubling practice must endAdults accused of the most heinous crimes regularly come into courtrooms without restraints. But every day youngsters accused of minor transgressions are led into the courthouse in irons. Young people who have been shackled in court frequently describe themselves as looking and feeling like criminals. This can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Their humiliation, particu
  
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• UK warship will be used to 'board, seize and divert' refugee boats

  16-09-2015 12:37
  
  HMS Richmond is to take part in ‘more aggressive’ phase two of EU naval operation off coast of LibyaA Royal Navy frigate is to be sent to take part in a blockade-style naval operation aimed at “boarding, seizing and diverting” refugee boats in the Mediterranean, the Ministry of Defence has said.The British warship HMS Richmond is to take part in a “more aggressive” phase two of a European Union naval operation operating off the coast of Libya aimed at ending t
  
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• CPS under pressure but not near collapse, says attorney general

  16-09-2015 12:27 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Jeremy Wright QC tells MPs the prosecution service is coping well with the challenges it faces.
  
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• This sinister trade union bill is an assault on the rights of working people | Ellie Mae O’Hagan

  16-09-2015 12:00
  
  The planned act will drastically curb union activity and puts both civil rights and industrial relations at risk. Why would any government do that?Conservative MP David Davis said it was like something out of “Franco’s Spain.” Leading human rights groups called it “a major attack on civil liberties”. Vince Cable described it as “vindictive,” “ideological” and “provocative”. Business associations warned it could have “uninten
  
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• Pinsent Masons partner dies at 47

  16-09-2015 11:59 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Firm shocked by sudden death of head of the litigation and compliance group.
  
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• UN seeks special court to investigate Sri Lanka war atrocities

  16-09-2015 11:17
  
  Government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels most likely committed war crimes during 26-year civil war, report saysThe UN has found evidence “strongly indicating” that war crimes were committed in Sri Lanka in the closing phases of its civil war, and called for the establishment of a special “hybrid” international court to investigate individuals responsible for the worst atrocities.Unveiling a 220-page, two-volume report in Geneva, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the UN high co
  
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• UN calls for Sri Lanka war crimes court to investigate atrocities

  16-09-2015 11:17
  
  Government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels most likely committed war crimes during 26-year civil war, report saysThe UN has found evidence “strongly indicating” that war crimes were committed in Sri Lanka in the closing phases of its civil war, and called for the establishment of a special “hybrid” international court to investigate individuals responsible for the worst atrocities.Unveiling a 220-page, two-volume report in Geneva, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the UN high co
  
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• Court fee rises hitting small businesses – Law Society

  16-09-2015 11:08 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  ‘Wrong in principle’ for courts to make a profit for the government. 
  
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• UK warship could target people smugglers in Mediterranean

  16-09-2015 10:49
  
  UK offers to send HMS Richmond to Libyan coast as part of operation against criminal gangs risking lives of refugeesA Royal Navy warship is being offered to the EU in the fight against people smugglers in the Mediterranean Sea as the operation to target criminal gangs is stepped up.HMS Richmond could be sent to the waters of the coast of Libya to stop human traffickers who are risking the lives of refugees by taking them on the perilous journey to Europe by boat. Related: UK Mediterranean missio
  
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• Rising number of employees reporting mental health issues

  16-09-2015 08:00
  
  More than two fifths of employers have seen increase in workers reporting conditions such as depression or anxiety, according to CIPD researchThe number of employees speaking up about mental health problems is on the rise. More than two fifths of employers say they have seen an increase in cases reported by staff of conditions such as depression and anxiety, according to research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). For employers, this knowledge brings with it respon
  
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• Trans Man Arrested Under UK's New "Revenge Porn" Law - NewNowNext

  16-09-2015 00:51
  Trans Man Arrested Under UK's New "Revenge Porn" Law
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  A transgender man in South Wales is in hot water after posting “revenge porn” photos of his former girlfriend, following a drunken attempt to get his dog back from her. 23-year-old Jesse Hawthorne decided to sneak into his ex-girlfriend's home to get ...
  

• Bergdahl lawyer wants interrogation made public - Yahoo News UK

  16-09-2015 00:17
  Bergdahl lawyer wants interrogation made public
  Yahoo News UK
  HOUSTON (AP) — The lawyer for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held prisoner for five years by the Taliban, is asking the Army to publicly release a transcript of Bergdahl's interview with military officials following his release in a controversial ...
  

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