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• Diabetes type 2 risk grows with 'passive' smoking

  17-09-2015 20:46
  
  Lancet journal’s meta-analysis says chance of diabetes for non-smokers inhaling ‘secondhand’ smoke raised by 22%Non-smokers who breathe in other people’s cigarette smoke are at significantly higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes, research published on Friday shows.“Passive smoking” increases a non-smoker’s chances of becoming a diabetic by 22% compared with the chances for those who have never inhaled tobacco smoke, the study says.Continue reading...
  
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• Asian child sex victims suffer more than white children, court rules

  17-09-2015 19:41
  
  Judge agreed that ethnicity of victims was an ‘aggravating feature’ in sentencing appeal of convicted paedophileAsian victims of child sex crimes suffer more than white children and their attackers should accordingly be punished more severely, the court of appeal has ruled.Ruling on a convicted paedophile’s appeal for a lesser sentence, Mr Justice Walker said it was right that Jamal Muhammed Raheem Ul Nasir had been given a longer spell in prison because his victims were Asian.
  
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• Third-party disclosure could cause JRs to collapse – Society

  17-09-2015 18:10 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Ministry of Justice proposing to provide courts with financial information of contributors to cases to help decide cost awards.
  
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• European court ruling boosts flight delay compensation claims

  17-09-2015 18:07
  
  Court of justice rules passengers can recoup as much as £437 per ticket if flights are delayed or cancelled for ‘technical reasons’A European court of justice ruling over flight delays has opened the floodgates for compensation claims against airlines that could run into hundreds of millions of pounds.Individuals will be able to claim as much as €600 (£437) a head after the court said airlines must pay out if flights are delayed or cancelled for “technical reas
  
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• Judges must engage in politics to preserve rule of law – lord chief justice

  17-09-2015 16:34
  
  Lord Thomas says judicial independence and adequate resources for justice system best served by engaging with government, MPs and public
  Judges must take “proactive steps” to secure adequate funding for the justice system, which is becoming unaffordable for most people, the lord chief justice has said.In a radical intervention encouraging judges to show greater “political engagement”, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd called on the industry to fight for better resources. Related: C
  
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• Solicitors from Hell copycat site ordered to pay £10,000

  17-09-2015 15:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  City firm takes action over claims that it was rude and intimidating. 
  
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• Police called in standoff over LLP ownership

  17-09-2015 14:47 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  High Court judgment backs SRA in claim involving wrongly intervened firm. 
  
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• UK terror law probe stresses 'safeguards' amid MI5 plot claims - The Register

  17-09-2015 14:44
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  UK terror law probe stresses 'safeguards' amid MI5 plot claims
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  Blighty's domestic intelligence agency MI5 foiled a number of life-threatening terrorist plots over the last 12 months, underlining the need "for good intelligence and strong anti-terrorism laws, accompanied by proper safeguards." This was the ...en meer »
  

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• For sex workers in Scotland, life may be about to get safer | Molly Smith

  17-09-2015 11:00
  
  Four key laws have put forward for decriminalisation in Scottish parliament – good news, if the New Zealand model is anything to go byThe UK’s first ever comprehensive proposals to protect sex workers’ safety and rights, based on the successful New Zealand model, were lodged in the Scottish parliament last week. Jean Urquhart, the independent MSP who brought these proposals forward, worked closely with sex worker-led organisations for months – and the results are what awa
  
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• We demand that women live in fear and behave impeccably to avoid 'asking for it' | Kate Harding

  17-09-2015 10:30
  
  In an extract from her book, author Kate Harding explains how women order their lives around the fear of rape – and of being blamed for not preventing itOne summer night, while I was working on my book, my friend Molly walked her greyhound over to my house for a writing date. Earlier that day, my husband had driven to Indianapolis on business, so Molly and I sat in my living room with our dogs and our laptops, drinking tea and clacking away for hours. It was lovely.Around 11pm, Molly asked
  
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• Promote unbundled legal services, LSB tells firms

  17-09-2015 07:44 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Super-regulator and watchdog say unbundling 'a natural response' to cuts in public funding. 
  
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• Actively market unbundling, LSB tells firms

  17-09-2015 07:44 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Super regulator and watchdog say unbundling 'a natural response' to cuts in public funding. 
  
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