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• The right way to tackle gender inequality in the legal profession | Letters

  27-09-2015 21:04
  
  In 1978, when I completed my Oxford law degree, we were told we would have to be patient, it could take 30 or 40 years before there was gender equality among the judiciary. I thought (perhaps naively) that was not unreasonable – after all, women had only just started entering the profession in significant numbers. How depressing to be told now by a justice of the supreme court that it could take another 50 years (Judge: you’ve got to be patient on gender equality, 23 September). And,
  
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• Counter-extremism law and liberal values - The Guardian

  27-09-2015 21:04
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  Counter-extremism law and liberal values
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  The wreck of a bus in Tavistock Square, London, in July 2005 after terrorists attacked the city's transport system. 'These laws are not there to stop reasoned debate or challenging beliefs, they are to stop people trying to kill you and me,' writes ...
  

• Rolls-Royce faces second investigation in Brazil corruption scandal

  27-09-2015 18:02
  
  High-level congressional commission to investigate British engineering group over ties with state oil company PetrobasRolls-Royce is facing further scrutiny over bribery allegations in Brazil after a high-level congressional commission told the Guardian it will investigate the company in connection with a sprawling corruption scandal.
  The beleaguered British engineering group now faces two investigations in Brazil after it admitted last month it is cooperating with investigating bodies, believed
  
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• VW urged to come clean over which UK diesel vehicles are affected

  27-09-2015 17:29
  
  Lawyers acting for Volkswagen drivers in UK attack ‘lack of clarity’ while German press reports Bosch warned VW over emissions-rigging devices in 2007Lawyers for UK drivers have urged Volkswagen to “come clean” over exactly which cars have been affected in Britain by the emissions-rigging scandal that has rocked the global car industry.The call came as German newspapers claimed the company had been aware of the cheating several years ago. At its near-10-hour meeting in Wo
  
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• UK to press Spain to honor law enforcement cooperation in Gibraltar waters - MercoPress

  27-09-2015 15:29
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  UK to press Spain to honor law enforcement cooperation in Gibraltar waters
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  British Government will continue to press Spain to honor the agreement to step up law enforcement cooperation in Gibraltar waters, Philip Dunne Minister of State for Defence has said. Mr Dunne was responding to a written question in the House of ...
  

• Here we take our duties to the weakest seriously | Kevin McKenna

  27-09-2015 01:09
  
  I voted yes in the hope that an independent Scotland might become a hothouse of creatively radical ideas to counter the prevailing orthodoxy of greedTo observe the acquiescent wing of the Labour party expressing more dismay at the election of a genuine leftwinger as leader than about Tory proposals to scrap the Human Rights Act (HRA) tells you why they are in retreat right across the party. As one SNP insider said to me last week: “All the mild left luvvies are descending on our conference
  
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• Cold-calling ‘factory’ gets record fine after 180,000 complaints last year

  27-09-2015 00:00
  
  Watchdog wants jail for those who breach data protection laws by selling lists of phone numbers to companiesA cold-calling company that has been pestering householders with automated calls on an “industrial scale” will be hit with a record fine next week.The fine, which will be issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on Wednesday, is believed to be in the region of £200,000 and is the latest move in a concerted crackdown by the ICO and other agencies on nuis
  
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