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• Bill Cosby accuser sues ex-prosecutor who didn't charge comedian

  26-10-2015 23:35
  
  Andrea Constand says Bruce Castor defamed in a series of comments he made to the media about the credibility of her case and his decision not to prosecute A woman who settled a sex abuse lawsuit against Bill Cosby has sued the former prosecutor who declined to file charges, saying he has defamed her through recent attacks on her credibility.Andrea Constand’s defamation lawsuit cites a series of comments that Bruce Castor made to the media as he runs for another term as district attorney in
  
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• MoJ commercial arm to be examined amid transparency concerns

  26-10-2015 22:28
  
  National Audit Office to look into Just Solutions International after shadow justice secretary wrote requesting investigation The public spending watchdog has said that it will be carrying out a preliminary examination of the Ministry of Justice’s commercial arm, which has been criticised for selling British prison expertise to regimes with poor human rights records, including Saudi Arabia and China.Michael Gove, the justice secretary, last month ordered the closure of Just Solutions Inter
  
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• States 'using security as excuse to stifle human rights groups', UN official warns

  26-10-2015 20:59
  
  UN special rapporteur Ben Emmerson QC says ‘ideological pandemic’ of national security laws is limiting activities of NGOsThe United Nations’ special rapporteur for human rights and counter-terrorism is to warn the UN that states are increasingly using national security as a pretext for clamping down on human rights groups.In a speech to the general assembly in New York on Monday, Ben Emmerson QC, a senior British lawyer, will warn that counter-terrorism initiatives are increas
  
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• Turkish government hires UK law firm to probe cleric's global network - Reuters

  26-10-2015 19:36
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  Turkish government hires UK law firm to probe cleric's global network
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  ISTANBUL The Turkish government has hired an international law firm to investigate the worldwide activities of U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen's Hizmet (Service) Movement, President Tayyip Erdogan's ally-turned-arch rival. Robert Amsterdam ...
  Turkish government hires UK law firm to probe Gülen's global networkHurriyet Daily Newsalle 621 nieuwsartikelen »
  

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• UK court declares that California civil confinement law constitutes a ... - Washington Post

  26-10-2015 18:10
  UK court declares that California civil confinement law constitutes a ...
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  In 2004, Roger Giese was arrested in California and charged with a number of serious sexual offenses allegedly committed against an adolescent boy during a four-year period when the boy was under age 14. While out on bail, he fled to England; when he ...
  

• Convicted solicitor struck off despite 7/7 trauma plea

  26-10-2015 17:49 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Tribunal rules there were not ‘exceptional circumstances’ to consider anything other than strike-off.
  
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• David Cesarani obituary

  26-10-2015 17:20
  
  One of the leading historians of modern Jewish history and an expert on the HolocaustDavid Cesarani, who has died aged 58 following surgery to remove a tumour on the spine, was the leading British-based historian of his generation on the modern history of the Jews. He was also a notable commentator and broadcaster on the Jewish past and present, and took a prominent role in Holocaust education in Britain and abroad.In the mid-1980s he led research by the All-Party Parliamentary War Crimes Group
  
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• Family courts must open up to avoid 'outrageous injustices', warns Ukip

  26-10-2015 15:08
  
  MP Douglas Carswell launches Ukip policy calling for greater sensitivity in legal process to avoid breakup of families and forced adoptionsSecrecy within the UK’s system of family courts is allowing social workers to “ride roughshod” over ordinary people and resulting in the unnecessary breakup of families and forced adoptions, the Ukip MP Douglas Carswell has warned.Outlining a Ukip policy paper on opening up the family courts, the Clacton MP said a “juggernaut” of
  
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• Further gender pay transparency measures announced

  26-10-2015 14:37 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Larger law firms will have to publish information about bonuses for men and women.
  
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• Justice and peace – why we can't have one without the other | Will Bennett and Thomas Wheeler

  26-10-2015 13:35
  
  Tensions between peacemakers and champions of justice are inevitable in societies riven by conflict, but resolving these differences benefits allIf ending a conflict means offering aggressors positions in the resulting political settlement and impunity for their crimes, is the compromise acceptable? Or should full accountability and criminal procedures for aggressors be non-negotiable – even if it means that the violence and killing are prolonged? Such questions have served to create tensi
  
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• Ministerial code: No 10 'showing contempt for international law'

  26-10-2015 13:27
  
  Former head of government’s legal service says obligation that ministers must comply with international law – dropped from revised code – had irritated PMThe former head of the government’s legal service has accused Downing Street of “contempt for the rule of international law” after it quietly abandoned a key plank of the ministerial code.In a sharply-worded letter to the Guardian, Paul Jenkins claimed the obligation that ministers must comply with internatio
  
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• When we ban begging we take away the First Amendment rights of the poor | Matthew Segal

  26-10-2015 11:45
  
  It is cruel and unfair to say that governments can regulate words spoken by the poor but not by the wealthy, who can afford TV ads and lobbyistsAll across America, municipalities have criminalized begging. This is bizarre. It is now clearly established that the first amendment protects people who express themselves by spending millions of dollars. How can it fail to protect people who express themselves by asking for one dollar?Many cities have suggested that begging fails to express ideas worth
  
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• UAE imprisoning rape victims under extramarital sex laws – investigation

  26-10-2015 06:00
  
  BBC Arabic investigation shows hundreds of women being prosecuted in breach of international human rights lawsHundreds of women, some of them pregnant or domestic servants who are victims of rape, are being imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates every year under laws that outlaw consensual sex outside marriage, according to a BBC Arabic investigation.
  Secret footage obtained by BBC Arabic show pregnant women shackled in chains walking into a courtrooms where laws prohibiting “Zina” &
  
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• UK firms: not as global as you think - The Lawyer

  26-10-2015 01:06
  UK firms: not as global as you think
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• Statute, sentencing and procedure

  26-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The 2015 statutory onslaught on criminal lawyers continued through the summer. What do the changes mean?
  
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• Society steps up legal privilege campaign

  26-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  In a position paper Chancery Lane and Bar Council argue that privilege is a vital principle of the administration of justice.
  
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• SDT: Jean Etienne Attala

  26-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The SDT ordered that the respondent should be struck off the roll.
  
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• Private equity investors ‘indifferent’ to law firms

  26-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Pioneer of private equity investment says IT sector more attractive than legal.
  
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• New powers in Wales Bill

  26-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  New powers over energy, speed limits, and local government and Welsh Assembly elections.
  
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• Financiers ‘indifferent’ to law firms

  26-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Pioneer of private equity investment says IT sector more attractive than legal.
  
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• Don’t accept ‘cold-call’ instructions, warns SRA

  26-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The regulator last week reminded practitioners that rules are already in place to stop this form of marketing.
  
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• Council limits ABS use to counter tax liability

  26-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Essex council voted last week to push ahead with an application to the SRA.
  
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• City firms to meet MoJ over plans to plug funding gap

  26-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society has described one government proposal as a ‘tax on success’.
  
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• Barristers’ new venture offers direct access

  26-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Founder told the Gazette that the Bar Standards Board-regulated entity takes advantage of the ‘changing legal landscape and the opening up of the legal profession’.
  
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• Bar 2015: Gove will need to defy backbenchers on prison reform

  26-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Andy Slaughter said the lord chancellor will enjoy a ‘large measure of cross-party support’ if he perseveres with changes.
  
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• Bar 2015: criminal advocacy revamp a ‘turning point’

  26-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Consultation is a rare beacon of hope and could mark a turning point for the criminal bar, Mark Fenhalls QC told the Bar Conference.
  
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• Bar 2015: barristers lukewarm on innovative business models

  26-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The vast majority of aplications have come from ‘one-man bands’ seeking to exploit perceived tax advantages that chancellor George Osborne has recently moved to abolish.
  
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