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• The bombardment of a hospital is a too-frequent 'accident'. It's also a war crime | Bernard Kouchner

  09-10-2015 20:15
  
  The US air bombing on a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan is a violation of basic human rights and against international lawIn the 1980s, as a field French doctor working in Afghanistan, I wrote several articles and open letters to the Soviet Union president to avoid the destruction of the Médecins Sans Frontières Wardak hospital. Of course, the Russian planes bombarded it as an answer.Targeting a red cross drawn on the roof of a hospital is an
  
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• The Guardian view on child sex allegations: the need for good judgment | Editorial

  09-10-2015 20:10
  
  It would be tragic if renewed attention to the victims of historic abuse is subverted by the failure of police and public to respect the rights of suspectsIt will come as no surprise that his enemies have got it in for Tom Watson. The West Bromwich East MP was the most effective backbench critic of phone hacking and of the Murdoch management’s responsibility. His work helped lead to the Leveson inquiry, an achievement which alone guarantees that Mr Watson will have been marked out for
  
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• Black Americans failed by inherently biased legal system, ABA president says

  09-10-2015 19:36
  
  As the American Bar Association’s first black female president, Paulette Brown hopes to change law’s bad reputation for discrimination against black defendants
  African-American citizens are being failed by the US criminal justice system because of ingrained racial bias in the way suspects are treated, according to the head of the United States’s largest legal professional body.Paulette Brown, who became the first black female president of the American Bar Association (ABA) in A
  
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• Tech companies like Facebook not above the law, says Max Schrems

  09-10-2015 17:42
  
  Austrian student who took on Facebook over data privacy in the European court of justice and won says the fightback is just beginningThe EU’s safe harbour ruling is a “puzzle piece in the fight against mass surveillance, and a huge blow to tech companies who think they can act in total ignorance of the law,” says Max Schrems, the man who brought the case.“US companies are realising that European laws are getting more and more enforced. But still, people don’t believ
  
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• The Uncondemned: the heartbreaking story behind the first conviction of rape as a war crime

  09-10-2015 17:41
  
  The Uncondemned to reveal secret witnesses in first conviction of war rapeFilm-maker Michele Mitchell mourns death of ‘creative soulmate’ Nick LouvelIt’s a long way from Rwanda to the Hamptons, in every sense. But on Friday afternoon the two will be connected when a pack of underdogs finally get their props in a tale of unlikely triumph against the odds.The Uncondemned, a new documentary debuting at the Hamptons international film festival, will reveal the mystery witnesses who
  
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• Rwandan genocide film co-director killed in car accident before historic premiere

  09-10-2015 17:41
  
  The Uncondemned to reveal secret witnesses in first conviction of war rapeFilm-maker Michele Mitchell mourns death of ‘creative soulmate’ Nick LouvelIt’s a long way from Rwanda to the Hamptons, in every sense. But on Friday afternoon the two will be connected when a pack of underdogs finally get their props in a tale of unlikely triumph against the odds.The Uncondemned, a new documentary debuting at the Hamptons international film festival, will reveal the mystery witnesses who
  
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• 'Chain of failings' led to death of Charlotte Bevan and her newborn baby, coroner rules

  09-10-2015 17:33
  
  Coroner says mentally ill woman, who left a Bristol hospital and jumped off a cliff holding her baby, needed a care plan and psychiatric help after she gave birthA series of failings contributed to the death of a mentally ill woman who jumped off a cliff while holding her newborn baby, a coroner has ruled.Charlotte Bevan walked out of St Michael’s hospital in Bristol with her four-day-old daughter, Zaani Tiana, on a cold December night last year – with just a thin pair of slippers on
  
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• It’s no surprise prisoners beat Harvard – when inside I saw every shade of genius | Carl Cattermole

  09-10-2015 15:55
  
  The New York inmates not only trounced the US debating champions, they demonstrated the benefit of education in an environment entirely suited to itIt emerged this week that students from Harvard University lost when competing against a group of New York prisoners, beneficiaries of the Bard Prison Initiative – not in a bare-knuckle boxing match, but in a competitive, intellectual debate. The Harvard name alone rings bells worldwide and the team in question had just won the national debatin
  
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• Sports Direct chief executive charged over USC administration

  09-10-2015 15:51
  
  Criminal proceedings have started against David Forsey, who is accused of failing to notify authorities over plans to lay off warehouse staffDavid Forsey, the chief executive of the Sports Direct, has been charged with a criminal offence relating to the collapse of its fashion retailer USC.The 49-year-old businessman is accused of failing to notify authorities of plans to lay off warehouse staff in Scotland, around 200 of whom were given just 15 minutes notice by USC’s administrator in Jan
  
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• Firms secure major local government contract

  09-10-2015 15:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Local authorities come together to establish legal services framework agreement.
  
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• IBA conference: as it happened

  09-10-2015 13:53 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  All the latest from the International Bar Association conference in Vienna.
  
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• Diezani in UK to treat cancer - Lawyer - News24 Nigeria

  09-10-2015 13:17
  Diezani in UK to treat cancer - Lawyer
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  Abuja - The lawyer of the embattled former petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has revealed that the former minister traveled to the United Kingdom to treat cancer, Sahara reporters reports. Oscar Onwudiwe said in a statement that the former ...
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• Herbert Smith Freehills opens pop-up support centre

  09-10-2015 12:26 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The new centre in Australia adds to the firm’s low-cost centre in Belfast.
  
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• Justice system must adapt to life without lawyers - LCJ

  09-10-2015 12:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lord Thomas also heralds increasing possibility of online courts to resolve disputes.
  
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• Former Stobart chief behind new ABS

  09-10-2015 11:49 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Trevor Howarth, a director of newly established business ’Two Legal’, once described traditional legal aid firms as ‘wounded animals waiting to die’.
  
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• Michael Gove is a true reformer. Liberals should be cheering him on | Martin Kettle

  09-10-2015 09:00
  
  The justice secretary’s language on prisons is a world away from his tough-talking predecessors’The first Conservative party conference debate on law and order I covered as a journalist was in Blackpool in 1981. It was the one at which Margaret Thatcher vigorously applauded a delegate from Crewe who called for Tory MPs to be deselected for voting against hanging, and at which a delegate who warned the Tories against flirting with racism was howled down by the audience.It was also the
  
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• Malaysia arrests lawyer critical of PM Najib - Yahoo News UK

  09-10-2015 04:47
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  Malaysia arrests lawyer critical of PM Najib
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  Reuters/Reuters - Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak attends the Khazanah Megatrends Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Olivia Harris. KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian police have arrested and detained the lawyer of ...en meer »
  

• Uber faces lawsuit in US over two alleged sexual assaults by drivers

  09-10-2015 01:20
  
  High-profile law firm brings action on behalf of one woman from Boston and another from South Carolina, and says Uber ‘fails to protect female passengers’The law firm that represented the hotel maid who said she was sexually assaulted by Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a woman from Delhi who said she was raped and beaten after hailing an Uber driver last December has filed a lawsuit against the controversial taxi app on behalf of two female passengers.Related: Delhi woman sues Uber for 'n
  
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• Billionaire Bill Gross sues Pimco for $200m

  09-10-2015 00:28
  
  Lawsuit alleges that executives at firm Gross founded 40 years ago plotted to remove him in power struggle that preceded his departure last yearBillionaire bond investor Bill Gross has sued his former employer, Pimco, for more than $200m (£130m) for breach of contract and plotting to oust him from the firm he founded more than four decades ago.The suit, filed on Thursday in Orange County, California, alleges that Pimco executives plotted to remove Gross in an internal power struggle that e
  
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• Billionaire Bill Gross sues firm he founded 40 years ago for $200m

  09-10-2015 00:28
  
  Bond investor’s lawsuit alleges that Pimco executives plotted to remove him in power struggle that preceded his departure last yearBillionaire bond investor Bill Gross has sued his former employer, Pimco, for more than $200m (£130m) for breach of contract and plotting to oust him from the firm he founded more than four decades ago.The suit, filed on Thursday in Orange County, California, alleges that Pimco executives plotted to remove Gross in an internal power struggle that eventual
  
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