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• Spanish lawyer accused of suffocating adopted Chinese daughter - Yahoo News UK

  22-10-2015 22:00
  Yahoo News UK
  Spanish lawyer accused of suffocating adopted Chinese daughter
  Yahoo News UK
  A Spanish lawyer suffocated her 12-year-old adopted Chinese daughter in a plan hatched with her ex-husband, a public prosecutor told jurors Thursday as the couple's high profile trial wrapped up. Rosario Porto, a former lawyer, and her ex-husband, ...en meer »
  

• Court rejects manslaughter conviction for pregnant woman who crashed car

  22-10-2015 19:49
  
  New York court dismisses charge in case of Jennifer Jorgensen, who was speeding and intoxicated when she crashed in 2008, leading to her baby’s deathNew York state’s highest court on Thursday rejected the manslaughter conviction of a woman who was pregnant when she crashed her car and whose baby was delivered by emergency surgery but died days later.Prosecutors had argued that Jennifer Jorgensen was speeding, intoxicated and unbelted when she crossed into oncoming traffic in 2008 and
  
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• Lawyers express concern over ministerial code rewrite

  22-10-2015 18:59
  
  Rewrite omits reference to international law prompting Rights Watch to lodge legal challengeConservative ministers have been accused of quietly abandoning the longstanding principle that members of the government should be bound by international law.A rewrite of the ministerial code that sets out the standard of conduct expected has omitted a reference to the subject – a decision that senior lawyers say could have far-reaching implications for the UK and its relationship with the rest of t
  
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• Tax levy on wealthiest law firms nonsensical, says Law Society

  22-10-2015 17:49
  
  Proposed tax is intended to replace current charge on guilty defendants which has been widely condemned for undermining the UK justice systemLawyers have dismissed as nonsensical a proposal by the Ministry of Justice to impose a tax on the UK’s wealthiest law firms. The tax is intended to replace a charge on guilty defendants which has been widely condemned for undermining the justice system.“This is simply a tax on success,” said Jonathan Smithers, president of the Law Society
  
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• Accused 'flash crash' trader's lawyer calls US extradition request 'false'

  22-10-2015 17:22
  
  The US request to extradite Navinder Sarao from Britain on 22 charges misrepresented how markets worked, court is toldThe US request to extradite the London-based trader Navinder Sarao, who is accused of helping to spark the 2010 Wall Street “flash crash”, was “false and misleading” because it misrepresented the way markets work, his lawyer has told a court. Sarao is wanted by US authorities after being charged on 22 criminal counts including wire fraud, commodities fraud
  
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• Ireland’s ‘Catholics first’ school enrolment makes dads like me despair | Paddy Monahan

  22-10-2015 16:36
  
  I want my unbaptised boy to go to a local school. But with 96% of them controlled by religious institutions, he’s unlikely to do so unless the law’s repealedThe Irish state is pushing parents to the brink of despair with its religion-based school enrolment laws. I can vouch for this because I am one of them. The birth of my beautiful boy Cormac back in March was a time of unbridled joy, but I learned shortly afterwards that our local state primary school is oversubscribed. Since then
  
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• Lawyers criticise decision to prosecute housing protester over sticker

  22-10-2015 15:22
  
  CPS used joint enterprise principle, usually reserved for gang crime, in the case of Lisa McKenzie, who was cleared of all chargesLegal experts have criticised the prosecution of a protester who was arrested when a fellow activist placed a sticker on a window of a block of luxury flats.The incident has raised concerns that the police are targeting known protesters for prosecution, even if they are non-violent, using joint enterprise laws. Continue reading...
  
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• Law firms drop JR threat over MedCo scheme

  22-10-2015 13:27 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Panel scheme also makes new statement on random allocation of medical reporting experts.
  
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• LAA delays signing duty solicitor contracts

  22-10-2015 12:29 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The government has told firms in two procurement areas that it will not sign the new legal aid contracts until 2 November. 
  
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• Two more women elevated to High Court bench

  22-10-2015 12:27 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Bobbie Cheema-Grubb QC will also become the first Asian woman to sit on the High Court bench.
  
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• Small businesses see lawyers as costly last resort

  22-10-2015 11:24 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal Services Board research shows limited engagement with legal service providers. 
  
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• Judge removed from case over ‘tenacious adherence’ to his own analysis

  22-10-2015 11:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lord Dyson said a review of court of protection case should be carried out by a different judge.
  
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• Whittingdale is right to think again about wielding the costs 'stick'

  22-10-2015 09:00
  
  Compelling publishers to fund claimants who lose their legal cases is unjustI thought my London Evening Standard column, as published in Wednesday’s issue, should have a wider audience because some people, via emails and Twitter, appear to think I’ve been ducking the subject. (The piece has been very slightly edited, along with a couple of additional paragraphs): Imagine the following scenario. A man reads a newspaper article that, in his view, libels him. So he engages a solicitor a
  
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• Senior UN official castigates World Bank over its approach to human rights

  22-10-2015 08:00
  
  UN special rapporteur accuses bank of leading ‘race to the bottom’ on human rights, and says organisation pays lip service to issues without tackling themThe World Bank’s approach to human rights is disingenuous, outdated and “deeply troubling”, an independent UN investigator has said.Professor Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, said that after 40 years of inconclusive internal discussions, the Washington-based organisation
  
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