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• French court fines online reviewer for slamming restaurant before it had opened

  28-10-2015 18:41
  
  Anonymous person calling themselves ‘The Clarifier’ ordered to pay several thousand euros to Dijon eaterie An amateur French restaurant reviewer has been fined several thousand euros after writing a scathing take on a local eatery which had not even opened yet.The review said the Loiseau Des Ducs restaurant in Dijon was “overrated, it was all show with very little actually on the plate, and the only thing well-stocked was the plate which carried the bill”.Related: Competi
  
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• UK firms must show proof they have no links to slave labour under new rules

  28-10-2015 14:41
  
  Legislation requiring large companies to publish evidence online is designed to force them to take responsibility for working conditions in supply chainsBritish companies are to be forced to publish evidence on their websites that their operations are not reliant on international slavery, under legislation aimed at exposing details of supply chains to public scrutiny.The government hopes the information will allow shoppers to make “more informed decisions at the checkout”. Under the
  
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• Hobby Lobby investigated for trying to import ancient artifacts from Iraq

  28-10-2015 13:45
  
  Customs agents seized thousands of years-old tablets imported by owners of the Christian chain of craft stores and intended for the $800m Museum of the BibleThe owners of the Hobby Lobby, the deeply Christian chain of craft stores that shot to prominence last year following a landmark supreme court ruling that extended religious rights to some corporations, has allegedly become embroiled in a investigation into the attempted importation of ancient antiquities from Iraq.A federal investigation is
  
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• Barrister convicted of forgery disbarred

  28-10-2015 12:54 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Martin Christie had failed to disclose his conviction when he was called to the bar. 
  
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• Sampson threatens legal action over ‘clarification’ to MPs

  28-10-2015 12:45 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Letter to select committee states that former chief legal ombudsman was ‘dismissed with notice’ after successfully appealing against summary dismissal earlier this year.
  
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• A hard day's night: the hidden health risks of working the night shift

  28-10-2015 11:54
  
  More than three million people in the UK work night shifts but research points to negative health risks from obesity and diabetes to breast cancerThirty-one year-old intensive care nurse Samantha (not her real name) loves her job; she just wishes it didn’t leave her body clock completely thrown. Nausea, tiredness, irritability and forgetfulness are just some of the symptoms she reports during an average hospital nightshift.Related: Round-the-clock London: what it’s like to live and w
  
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• Dominic Grieve: PM shouldn't have changed ministerial code

  28-10-2015 10:45
  
  Former attorney general says Cameron removing requirement to comply with international law sends ‘very bad signal’Dominic Grieve, the former attorney general, has accused Downing Street of sending out a “very bad signal” after it removed a key passage from the ministerial code that requires members of the government to comply with international law.Grieve, who was the cabinet’s chief legal advisor until last July, said it was impossible to understand why No 10 had r
  
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• Top 100 US CEOs sitting on retirement nest egg of nearly $5bn

  28-10-2015 05:01
  
  Yum Brands executive chairman David Novak has the largest stash: $234m, which will translate to monthly payments of $1.3m for the rest of his lifeForget retirement worries: once a fat cat, always a fat cat. The top 100 chief executive are sitting on pension pots worth $4.9bn (£3.2bn) – equal to the total retirement savings of 116 million of the poorest Americans, according to a study released by the Institute of Policy Studies on Wednesday.The average of the top 100 CEO retirement fu
  
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