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• Britain's most dangerous prisoners to get meditation lessons

  19-10-2015 23:00
  
  About 60 inmates held in segregation units will be taught mindfulness-based techniques in an effort to calm their violent impulsesPrison staff are to teach meditation to Britain’s most dangerous criminals in an attempt to aid their rehabilitation and quell their violent impulses.About 60 of the most violent men held in segregation units in the country’s eight highest-security prisons will have access to one-on-one training by psychologists and prison officers, the Guardian has learne
  
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• New UK Law Introduces US-Style Class Actions - Compliance Week (subscription)

  19-10-2015 22:17
  New UK Law Introduces US-Style Class Actions
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  A new law now in effect in Britain has dialed up the litigation risk for global businesses, paving the way for more American-style class-action lawsuits in cases where companies might have violated competition law. At issue is the comprehensive new ...en meer »
  

• Julian Assange lawyers may launch new appeal in light of published emails

  19-10-2015 21:19
  
  Team for Wikileaks founder says correspondence shows prosecutors ‘more interested in winning the case than finding the truth’Lawyers for Julian Assange say they are considering launching a fresh appeal against his Swedish arrest warrant, following the publication of correspondence between prosecutors in Britain and Sweden.The Wikileaks founder’s legal team say the documents show Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service and Marianne Ny, the prosecutor in Sweden seeking Assange&
  
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• UK law firm to support Telangana farmers by adopting 20 drought hit families - Times of India

  19-10-2015 20:04
  UK law firm to support Telangana farmers by adopting 20 drought hit families
  Times of India
  MUMBAI: UK solictors Zaiwalla & Co is set to be the first UK business to support philanthropic activities of Telangana Jagruthi in India by signing up to help its affiliate body - Telangana Jagruthi United Kingdom - in adopting families of 20 farmers ...
  

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• Federal court upholds post-Sandy Hook gun bans in New York and Connecticut

  19-10-2015 18:51
  
  States’ laws against possession of semi-automatic assault weapons and large-capacity magazines do not violate second amendment, appeals court ruledGun control laws passed in New York and Connecticut to ban the possession of semi-automatic weapons and large-capacity magazines after the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school were mostly upheld on Monday by a federal appeals court. Related: 'It's about time': guns become serious debate issue for first time since 2000Continue reading...
  
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• Warrant issued for Turkish lawyer on propaganda charges - Yahoo News UK

  19-10-2015 18:44
  Warrant issued for Turkish lawyer on propaganda charges
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  ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish news agencies say a court has issued an arrest warrant for a prominent lawyer in the Kurdish southeast on terrorist propaganda charges. Tahir Elci is the head of the bar association in Diyarbakir. He was criticized last week ...en meer »
  

• Specialist judges should oversee snooping warrants, says leading lawyer

  19-10-2015 18:33
  
  Martin Chamberlain QC says team of expert judges who are not ‘overawed’ by intelligence services would help safeguard against mass surveillanceA cadre of specialist judges who develop expertise assessing interception warrants and are not “overawed” by the intelligence services should be appointed to safeguard against mass surveillance, a leading lawyer has said.
  Martin Chamberlain QC, one of the most experienced special advocates in terrorism and national security cases,
  
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• 100 firms planning legal aid contract challenges

  19-10-2015 18:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Government could be prevented from entering into new contracts next Monday. 
  
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• Well-wishers pay tribute to man who announced his own death online

  19-10-2015 17:39
  
  Terminally ill Simon Binner, who was expected to end his life at Basel clinic, posted message on LinkedIn announcing date of his assisted deathA terminally ill businessman was expected to end his life on Monday after appearing to have used his LinkedIn networking profile to announce the date of his death.Simon Binner, 57, who was diagnosed with aggressive motor neurone disease (MND) in January, said in what appeared to be his professional profile: “I died in Switzerland with Eternal Spirit
  
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• Barrister loses misconduct appeal after threatening to sue dentist

  19-10-2015 17:23 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Henry Davies was fined £500 by a tribunal after one charge of professional misconduct was proved against him.
  
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• Stop and search: the police must not revive discredited strategies | Michael Shiner

  19-10-2015 17:22
  
  From Brixton 1981 to Tottenham 2011, all section 60 has done is cause riots and fail to stop knife crime. It will be a tragedy if police chiefs turn back nowTomorrow the supreme court will begin ruling on a legal challenge to section 60 – a controversial power for police officers that has been widely used to stop and search for knives without the usual requirement for “reasonable grounds”. In the run-up to the judgment Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan police commissioner, a
  
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• Landlord and tenant

  19-10-2015 16:45
  
  The Chancery Division held that the claimant was entitled to summary judgment on its claim against Dreamland for delivery up of a mural, attributed to Banksy, which had been removed by Dreamland from the building of which it was the tenant.
  
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• Criticism of JR process ‘unfounded’, legal charity claims

  19-10-2015 14:55 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Study of 502 cases claims there is no evidence to support government's criticism of process. 
  
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• Nothing off the table in talks with Chinese president, says No 10

  19-10-2015 14:28
  
  Downing Street promises ‘strong and engaged approach’ as it defends decision to roll out red carpet for Chinese leader on lavish four-day visit to UKNothing will be off the table in David Cameron’s talks this week with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, Downing Street has said, as it defended its decision to roll out the red carpet for the Chinese leader, whose lavish four-day state visit begins late on Monday.Cameron is facing criticism from human rights campaigners, British s
  
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• Jackson: drop ‘oppressive’ exemption to my rules

  19-10-2015 13:41 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  ‘Excessive litigation costs are wasteful of the nation’s resources,’ says LASPO architect.
  
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• Government launches hunt for extremists across public sector

  19-10-2015 12:49
  
  Victory for Theresa May as new counter-extremism strategy will review all public institutions to protect against infiltrationA major drive is to be launched against “entryist” infiltration of the public sector, charities and businesses by Islamist and other extremists as a key part of the government’s new counter-extremist strategy.The drive will start with a full review, to report by next year, of all public institutions – including schools, colleges, the civil service a
  
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• Firms not responding to digital age, annual snapshot shows

  19-10-2015 12:07 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Just 23% of firms have made changes to how they operate to respond to the digital age, a survey compiled by PwC has revealed.
  
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• Ban payments to solicitors to stop ‘dressing up’ referral fees – bar chair

  19-10-2015 12:02 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The Bar Council chair has said some solicitors try to ‘cloak’ referral fees as administration fees to get around ban.
  
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• Ad campaign aims to rally support to save Human Rights Act

  19-10-2015 12:00
  
  Crowdfunded billboards and short films will focus on people who have mounted legal challenges using the act, which the government wants to scrap The battle to save the Human Rights Act takes to the streets this week with crowdfunded billboards focusing on those who have used the legislation to obtain justice.The advertising campaign, which will also target the Surrey constituency of the justice secretary, Michael Gove, aims to broaden popular appreciation of the benefits of the act that the gove
  
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• Insurance giant makes £6m profits from PI joint ventures

  19-10-2015 11:39 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Accounts for Admiral Law and BDE show growing work in progress for both.
  
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• Sexual violence in the aid sector: what should NGOs be doing?

  19-10-2015 11:27
  
  Following reports of sexually assaulted aid workers being mistreated by their organisations, MSF consultant Muriel Volpellier offers this adviceAid agencies accused of hiding scale of sexual assaults on employeesIt is not the first time and probably not the last. This week another aid worker has come to The Havens, a sexual assault referral centre (SARC) in London. She tells us a story that is becoming familiar. She works for an aid agency, she was sent to a country that is not particularly safe
  
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• Supper with the Psychedelic Society – tales of therapy, poetry and ayahuasca

  19-10-2015 08:00
  
  Speakers at an event in north London describe their positive experiences of drugs such as psilocybin and LSD, part of a wider resurgenceAmid an abundance of food and drink, flickering candles and a heady air of altered states,100 or so people in north London’s New Unity church watched John, a mop-haired Irishman in his late 20s, tell the story of how he learned to love through therapy, poetry and ayahuasca.“I arrived at Cuzco and, sure God, how do you find an ayahuasca ceremony?&rdqu
  
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• Lawyer tried to keep Somali rape victim in Australia - Yahoo News UK

  19-10-2015 05:49
  Lawyer tried to keep Somali rape victim in Australia
  Yahoo News UK
  CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A lawyer for a pregnant Somalia refugee rape victim says he tried to take court action to keep her in Australia before the government suddenly flew her to Nauru without providing the abortion that she had requested.en meer »
  

• Women lawyers’ pay lags in-house

  19-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The gap is larger for women from under-represented or minority groups.
  
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• Thresholds for strike-out

  19-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The legal principles on striking out a claim on the grounds of the claimant’s alleged abusive or fraudulent conduct.
  
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• SDT: Gail Evans

  19-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll.
  
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• Law Society reports on how Brexit will affect solicitors

  19-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  EU departure could have consequences for commercial disputes, Wales and criminal justice, says Chancery Lane.
  
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• Korean legal market ‘challenging’

  19-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  UK ambassador to the Republic of Korea says foreign firms face restrictions despite Seoul’s liberalisation promises.
  
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• Disputes looming over legal aid tender

  19-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal Aid Agency ‘strongly’ denied allegations about the staffing and assessment process.
  
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• Capital markets lawyers

  19-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  London-based capital markets lawyers are prospering as the M&A market rebounds and corporates raise money for growth.
  
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• Campaign on IP liability set to bear fruit

  19-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Current law provides a statutory right of redress against ‘unjustified threats’ to sue for infringement of a patent, trade mark or design right.
  
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• Banks’ in-house legal teams face shift

  19-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal teams at banks will have to restructure to meet requirements on business continuity and independence under wide-ranging reforms.
  
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• Ashfords’ ‘groundbreaking’ legal partnership

  19-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Partnership with local authorities will offer advice on safety and environment, among other areas.
  
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