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• The Guardian view on Muslims in the west: marginalised by mistrust | Editorial

  24-09-2015 21:20
  
  Ministers should stop boasting about supposed British values. The debate about security in a diverse society needs to be framed in the language of human rightsThe book was in the college library, and a student enrolled for the very subject that it covered was spotted picking it up. The scene might not be so common as it was in the pre-Google era, but nor is it – one would hope – so rare as to prompt a college official to instigate a worried conversation, and then call for security. I
  
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• The Guardian view on equality and judges: no diversity, not enough merit | Editorial

  24-09-2015 21:18
  
  The supreme court justice Jonathan Sumption says positive discrimination would be a calamityIt is not surprising that the leading historian of one of the most violent periods in European history should resist imposing change on a system that is accustomed to evolving at the most glacial pace. But it is unfortunate. Jonathan Sumption, who writes on medieval history and is the author of an admired multi-volume history of the hundred years war as well as being one of the most senior judges in Engla
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn 'has not decided' whether to kneel in front of the Queen

  24-09-2015 20:06
  
  Labour leader says he is making up his mind over what to do at privy counsellor ceremony as party conference approachesLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he has not yet made up his mind whether he will kneel in front of the Queen when he takes part in the ceremony that will make him a privy counsellor. Giving what he described as an “honest answer” to ITV News, Corbyn said he had yet to receive a formal invitation to the ceremony.An Ipsos Mori poll on Thursday found that only 37% o
  
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• Family pleads for life of mentally ill man sentenced to death by firing squad

  24-09-2015 17:41
  
  Somaliland supreme court due to rule on fate of Abdullah Ali, facing execution after being convicted of manslaughter The family of a mentally ill man sentenced to death by firing squad in Somaliland has appealed to the country’s president to intervene to prevent his execution. The case of Abdullah Ali, who was convicted of shooting and killing a man last year, has prompted an international outcry, with Human Rights Watch declaring it a particularly cruel punishment for someone diagnosed wi
  
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• The rise and fall of Burkina Faso's coup: what you need to know

  24-09-2015 13:52
  
  A seizure of power threatened to derail forthcoming elections, but a swift intervention from regional heads of state seems to have restored order – for now. Global Voices online reportsA coup in Burkina Faso threatened to pull the country further into political crisis, with leading ministers detained, violent clashes on the streets of the capital, and a wide-eyed general installed overnight as head of state.But a swift intervention from west African countries including Senegal, Benin, and
  
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• VW faces deluge of UK legal claims over emissions tests

  24-09-2015 13:51
  
  Law firms say car owners, dealerships and shareholders may have strong case as Germany admits default devices were fitted in European modelsVolkswagen could face a barrage of legal claims from British car owners over the emissions tests scandal, according to top law firms. Lawyers say they have been indundated with inquiries from VW drivers whose cars may have been far more polluting than claimed, after the German carmaker admitted installing defeat devices to cheat tests. Related: VW emissions
  
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• Supermarket in-house team revolutionises contract process

  24-09-2015 13:46 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Annual number of contracts handled by legal team has risen by 342.5% since 2012, senior lawyer says.
  
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• Primark breastfeeding row woman admits fabricating story

  24-09-2015 13:33
  
  Caroline Starmer, who falsely claimed security guard pulled baby away from her, is told court will consider custodial sentenceA woman who falsely claimed a Primark security guard pulled her baby away from her while breastfeeding has admitted attempting to pervert the course of justice.Caroline Starmer posted on Facebook that the guard took her nine-month-old daughter from her on 13 July at the store in Humberstone Gate, Leicester.Continue reading...
  
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• How client interview skills can raise the stakes

  24-09-2015 13:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The Client Interviewing Competition has huge benefits for law students and has led to work placements and training contracts.
  
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• EY legal arm plans doubling of lawyer team in UK - The Global Legal Post

  24-09-2015 11:43
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  The Big Four accountancy firm, previously known as Ernst & Young, plans to increase its UK legal team from 30 to 60 lawyers within a year. Bocman 1973. The expansion strategy comes within a year of the firm acquiring its ABS licence from the Solicitors ...
  

• Cameron set up Leveson to take heat off his hiring of Andy Coulson

  24-09-2015 11:37
  
  Former police chief claims that the prime minister seized on an idea floated by Rebekah Brooks, according to the latest extract of the book by Lord Ashcroft
  David Cameron set up the Leveson inquiry to divert attention from his decision to hire former News of the World editor Andy Coulson as his director of communications, according to the former Scotland Yard commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson. It was part of a strategy, he said, to spread the blame for phone-hacking scandal that was allegedly sug
  
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• Sexism-row barrister hits out at Sumption

  24-09-2015 11:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Charlotte Proudman accuses Supreme Court judge of seeking to protect the ‘old boys’ network’, while former lord chancellor Lord Falconer describes his comments as ‘deeply worrying’. 
  
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• Feminist barrister hits out at Sumption

  24-09-2015 11:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Charlotte Proudman accuses Supreme Court judge of seeking to protect the ‘old boys’ network’, while former lord chancellor Lord Falconer describes Sumption’s comments as ‘deeply worrying’. 
  
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• Kim Dotcom case is ’simple fraud’, court told

  24-09-2015 10:39
  
  Internet mogul accused of multi-million dollar online piracy is fighting extradition to US from New Zealand Prosecutors have outlined their extradition case against Kim Dotcom in a New Zealand court, saying the core allegation against the internet mogul accused of multimillion-dollar online piracy was fraud.The case has already dragged on almost four years and been described by the FBI as the biggest copyright investigation in US history, involving leading-edge technology and huge sums of money.
  
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• Ghana's top undercover journalist masters disguise to expose corruption

  24-09-2015 09:00
  
  Judiciary rattled by documentary containing secret footage of 34 judges accepting bribes in exchange for passing lower sentencesAnas Aremeyaw Anas, one of Africa’s most intrepid undercover journalists, has a range of tools he uses when he tries to expose corruption. He owns an array of wigs, prosthetic masks and tiny cameras; once he feigned madness to infiltrate Ghana’s largest psychiatric hospital; and he has posed as characters ranging from street hawkers to an albino body parts t
  
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• Sumption encapsulates the law’s sexism: only quotas can challenge male privilege | Charlotte Proudman

  24-09-2015 08:00
  
  If the supreme court judge thinks women are opting to shun senior judicial posts, he doesn’t understand powerInstitutional sexism in the legal profession is under scrutiny again following remarks about gender equality in the judiciary by one of the country’s most senior judges. Jonathan Sumption’s views exemplify perfectly what is wrong with the way women in the legal profession are viewed by those in the highest echelons of power.Not only did the supreme court judge forecast i
  
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• Judge's comments on gender equality 'show problems women face in law'

  24-09-2015 08:00
  
  Barrister Charlotte Proudman criticises supreme court justice Lord Sumption and says quotas are needed to get women in judiciaryThe views of supreme court justice Jonathan Sumption exemplify what is wrong with the way women are viewed within the legal profession, according to the barrister Charlotte Proudman.In an article for the Guardian, Proudman – who faced a recent backlash after publishing her response to a comment made about her appearance by a solicitor - criticised Lord Sumption ov
  
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