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• Simon Binner assisted death: new court battle planned over UK ban

  17-10-2015 15:08
  
  Humanist body says law causes unnecessary suffering for people such as Binner, who announced plans on LinkedIn
  A businessman who used LinkedIn to reveal his plan to end his life on Monday wants his death to support a new drive to change the law on assisted dying, a group supporting him has said.Simon Binner, 57, was diagnosed with aggressive motor neurone disease (MND) in January and has decided to end his life at a clinic in Basel, Switzerland. Related: Company director announces assisted dying
  
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• Alabama license office closures alarms voting rights advocates ahead of 2016

  17-10-2015 14:28
  
  Governor says office closures are cost-cutting measures but opponents say they are an effort toward disenfranchisement that harkens back to state’s painful pastA series of recent government maneuvers in Alabama may prevent some citizens from voting across large swathes of the state, particularly in poverty-stricken Black Belt counties. Related: Barack Obama calls on Congress to restore Voting Rights Act Black people made it past the poll tax, literacy tests, everything … driving is
  
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• Law-abiding activist faces deportation from UK - The Guardian

  17-10-2015 11:46
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  Law-abiding activist faces deportation from UK
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  A political activist arrested but not charged during peaceful protests is facing illegal deportation from the UK, his lawyer has claimed. It is thought to be the first case of its kind and has raised serious concerns that the right to peaceful protest ...
  

• Law-abiding activist faces deportation from UK

  17-10-2015 11:33
  
  Lawyers for Hungarian-born man say Home Office threat appears to be illegal and jeopardises right to peaceful protest
  A political activist arrested but not charged during peaceful protests is facing illegal deportation from the UK, his lawyer has claimed. It is thought to be the first case of its kind and has raised serious concerns that the right to peaceful protest, which is enshrined in English law, is being eroded. Related: John McDonnell defends public right to protestContinue reading...
  
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• From Caravaggio to Graham Ovenden: do artists’ crimes taint their art?

  17-10-2015 10:45
  
  A court this week ordered the destruction of portraits belonging to artist and sex offender Graham Ovenden on grounds of indecency – to the dismay of some observers. The question of how to treat such objects is not going awayIn Court 1 of Hammersmith magistrates court on Tuesday, a judge was deciding the fate of hundreds of photographs and pictures. District Judge Elizabeth Roscoe had to rule on whether works by and belonging to the artist Graham Ovenden, a convicted paedophile, were indec
  
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• Revised 'Saatchi bill' is back but critics still fearful

  17-10-2015 10:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legislation passes through House of Commons in attempt to promote innovation in treatments.
  
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• Editorial: More gun control after Dunblane school massacre: archive, 17 Oct 1996

  17-10-2015 06:00
  
  The home secretary has gone considerably further than the Cullen inquiry suggested. Sensibly, Dunblane parents are saying this is not enoughPeople still count. Yesterday they scored a spectacular victory. The gun controls announced in Parliament by the Home Secretary were a triumph for ordinary citizens over the organised lobby. The new controls are far more stringent than this Government, with its umbilical links to the gun lobby, would ever have countenanced but for the nationwide anger over t
  
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