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• Shaker Aamer, UK's last detainee in Guantánamo Bay, to be freed

  25-09-2015 21:08
  
  UK government confirms that Aamer, the last British resident held at US base in Cuba, will be released after 13 years without trial Shaker Aamer, the last British resident left in US captivity in Guantánamo Bay, is to be released after 13 years during which he was accused of being a terrorist but never charged.Aamer will be free in 30 days after Barack Obama’s administration informed the US Congress that it intended to release him back to the UK, where Aamer has a wife and four chil
  
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• Get real: Lammily - the doll with acne and cellulite - now gets her period, too

  25-09-2015 18:47
  
  The ‘anti-Barbie’ comes complete with a ‘period party pack’ to help explain the menstrual cycle – plus, sexism in court and #MasculinitySoFragile explained
  Lammily, also dubbed the “anti-Barbie”, is the doll that was created by Nickolay Lamm and crowd funded into existence last year to promote the message that “average is beautiful”. Unlike Barbie, Lammily is modelled on the average measurements of a 19-year-old woman. Launched with her own &
  
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• California prison advocates say suicide checks are inhumane treatment

  25-09-2015 17:52
  
  Since August, inmates at Pelican Bay state prison say they have been awoken every half hour by guards in a practice that amounts to sleep deprivationLess than a month after inmates at a California maximum security prison reached a landmark settlement to curb decades-long solitary confinement, inmates and their advocates are protesting against another new policy that they say is subjecting them to inhumane treatment.Since August, inmates at Pelican Bay state prison say they have been awoken every
  
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• Bar 'milestone' towards flexible training

  25-09-2015 17:39 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The bar regulator has approved plans to introduce a professional statement as part its new approach to entry to the profession.
  
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• Reed Smith posts 11% profits hike

  25-09-2015 17:27 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  International firm cites focused approach to global industry for increase.
  
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• Firms losing millions to phone fraudsters - insurer

  25-09-2015 14:17 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Office accounts as well as client accounts at risk from ‘very sophisticated’ callers posing as bank staff. 
  
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• 'Flash crash' trader's extradition hearing put back six months

  25-09-2015 13:50
  
  New extradition request from US prompts judge to delay hearing until February to give Navinder Singh Sarao time to prepareThe extradition hearing of Navinder Singh Sarao, the British trader accused of contributing to a so-called flash crash in financial markets, has been put back until February.The London-based trader, who is accused by the US authorities of market manipulation, appeared in Westminster magistrates court for what was expected to be a hearing into his possible extradition. Related
  
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• 'Flash crash' trader's extradition hearing put back amid new claims

  25-09-2015 13:50
  
  New extradition request from US prompts judge to delay hearing until February to give Navinder Singh Sarao time to prepareThe extradition hearing of Navinder Singh Sarao, the British trader accused of contributing to a so-called flash crash in financial markets, has been put back until February.The London-based trader, who is accused by the US authorities of market manipulation, appeared in Westminster magistrates court for what was expected to be a hearing into his possible extradition. Related
  
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• Brexit wounds: UK law market faces up to £1.7bn hit from EU exit, claims report - Legal Business (blog)

  25-09-2015 13:48
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  Brexit wounds: UK law market faces up to £1.7bn hit from EU exit, claims report
  Legal Business (blog)
  New research commissioned by the Law Society has found the legal services sector would be 'disproportionately disadvantaged' as a result of complete UK withdrawal from the EU. The report, which was carried out by Oxford Economics, found that stronger ...en meer »
  

• 'Harry Potter' solicitor to face disciplinary tribunal

  25-09-2015 13:41 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  A solicitor-advocate who made headlines last year after he was reprimanded by a judge for ‘dressing like something out of Harry Potter’ is to face the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, it emerged this morning.
  
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• I lived in Calais’ Jungle camp – here’s why I would never go back | Mazen Mallah

  25-09-2015 13:40
  
  A UN representative has described the Jungle as an ‘indictment on society’. Here are my experiences of the cold, hunger and desperationThe Jungle is like a forgotten place. It’s just tents and rubbish. Everyone there is dirty, cold and frustrated because all they want to do is move on.I stayed for a month and it was exhausting being there. I had arrived from eastern Europe, and all I had was a T-shirt and jeans, no tent and no sleeping bag. When it rains it is terrible –
  
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• Brexit disproportionately harmful to legal services - Law Society research

  25-09-2015 10:28 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Study for Chancery Lane says sector would suffer stronger negative effects than economy as a whole.
  
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• There will be protests until Irish women have the legal right to choose abortion | Una Mullally

  25-09-2015 10:00
  
  Same-sex marriage has become law by public vote in Ireland. Now there’s a growing push for the country’s eighth amendment to be repealedOn Saturday thousands of people are expected to march in Dublin protesting at Ireland’s restrictive abortion laws. Abortion is all but illegal here, and after the marriage equality referendum in May, which saw Ireland become the first country in the world to pass same-sex marriage rights by popular vote, it is becoming increasingly difficult to
  
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• 'Flash crash' trader to appear in court to fight extradition to US

  25-09-2015 07:00
  
  Navinder Sarao indicted by US federal grand jury on 22 criminal counts over allegations he used trading program to ‘spoof’ marketsThe London-based trader accused by US authorities of market manipulation that helped cause the 2010 Wall Street “flash crash” is due to appear in court on Friday to fight extradition to the United States to face trial.Navinder Sarao, arrested by British police on a US warrant in April, has been indicted by a US federal grand jury on 22 criminal
  
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