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• French lawyer shoots colleague then kills himself - Yahoo News UK

  29-10-2015 20:34
  Yahoo News UK
  French lawyer shoots colleague then kills himself
  Yahoo News UK
  A French lawyer with far-right leanings on Thursday shot and wounded his supervisor in his office in a court complex before turning the gun on himself and committing suicide. Joseph Scipilliti, 63, had come for a disciplinary meeting with Henrique ...en meer »
  

• Parliament’s human rights committee to investigate lethal drone strikes

  29-10-2015 19:18
  
  Inquiry launched by Harriet Harman after David Cameron authorised attacks on Isis in Syria outside war zonesThe prime minister’s policy of ordering targeted drone killings overseas outside designated war zones is to be scrutinised in the first inquiry launched by the new chair of parliament’s human rights committee.
  Harriet Harman, a former Labour deputy leader, has announced that the government will be asked to clarify the legal implications of the RAF drone attack in Raqqa, Syria o
  
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• Where now for the rule of law? - UK Human Rights Blog (blog)

  29-10-2015 18:25
  Where now for the rule of law?
  UK Human Rights Blog (blog)
  In his foreword to the Report, Lord Woolf speaks of his “fears for damage to the rule of law” from the changes, and urges those interpreting Part 4 to interpret and apply the legislation in a way which avoids or least interferes with the rule of law ...
  

• SRA tells solicitors: explain your separate business set-up

  29-10-2015 18:24 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Regulator publishes guidance ahead of changes to the separate business rule.
  
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• Transgender prisoner at HMP Bristol 'being sexually harassed'

  29-10-2015 17:16
  
  Tara Hudson, 26, who has lived her entire adult life as a woman, was sent to a male prison last week after admitting assaultA transgender woman who was sent to an all-male prison has complained that she is being sexually harassed by other prisoners.Tara Hudson, 26, who was born male but has lived her entire adult life as a woman, was sent to HMP Bristol last week after admitting assault over a Boxing Day bar fight. Since then nearly 110,000 people have signed a petition calling for her to be tra
  
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• Why does Irish media mogul Denis O'Brien launch so many legal actions?

  29-10-2015 16:12
  
  Journalists, and even a satirical website, have been threatened with writsFurther to my posting yesterday about the Irish media mogul Denis O’Brien, the Irish Times reported on Thursday that the Dáil, Ireland’s parliament, is now fighting off one of O’Brien’s legal actions.I won’t go into the convoluted details of that particular issue here (which can also be found on the Irish Independent website). But the fact of the action itself is a reminder of the prope
  
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• Political promises mean nothing to the law, U.K. court rules - Financial Post

  29-10-2015 15:43
  Financial Post
  Political promises mean nothing to the law, U.K. court rules
  Financial Post
  No less an authority than the U.K.'s Investigatory Tribunal, a court that determines complaints of unlawful use of covert techniques by public authorities, has ruled that political statements, even when made by the Prime Minister, have no effect in law.
  

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• Women ‘under-represented’, Society says as 33% target released

  29-10-2015 15:13 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Government-backed review calls for a third of all board seats in FTSE 350 companies to be held by woman in next five years.
  
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• Women ‘under-represented’ in legal world, Society says as 33% target released

  29-10-2015 15:13 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Government-backed review calls for a third of all board seats in FTSE 350 companies to be held by woman in next five years.
  
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• Consolidator ready to acquire law firms armed with £4m war chest

  29-10-2015 15:08 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Metamorph Law also confirms recruitment of former Co-operative Legal Services director.
  
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• Consolidator ready to acquire firms armed with £4m war chest

  29-10-2015 15:08 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Metamorph Law also confirms recruitment of former Co-operative Legal Services director.
  
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• Inmate injury and death figures at highest for a decade

  29-10-2015 14:46
  
  Prison reform campaigners say figures, which include seven homicides, show people dying as a result of cutsThe number of people who have died, been assaulted or injured themselves in prison has risen to its highest level for a decade, figures show.Statistics published by the Ministry of Justice on Thursday show that 267 people died in prisons in England and Wales in the 12 months to the end of September 2015. The number included seven homicides – more than double the number recorded in any
  
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• Raif Badawi wins EU's Sakharov human rights prize

  29-10-2015 14:00
  
  Saudi Arabia urged by EU lawmakers to free blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes for ‘insulting Islam’ amid criticism of its airstrikes in YemenRaif Badawi, the Saudi blogger and activist sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam, has won the EU’s Sakharov prize for human rights.
  The announcement was greeted on Thursday with a standing ovation at the European parliament in Strasbourg, France, but will be seen by Saudi Arabia as another diplomatic slight a
  
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• City funding gap plans a ‘work in progress’

  29-10-2015 13:47 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Meetings between the City and Ministry of Justice this week were ‘just the start’ of a dialogue on how top firms can help plug the justice funding gap. 
  
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• The UK steel industry – the beginning of the end? - The National Law Review

  29-10-2015 13:24
  The National Law Review
  The UK steel industry – the beginning of the end?
  The National Law Review
  Recent posts on eSQUIRE Global Crossings have highlighted the problems in the oil and gas sector and unfortunately this is not the only sector under pressure. uk steel industry. Job losses and insolvency in the steel industry. Over the past few weeks ...en meer »
  

• French wine industry's love affair with pesticides blamed for worker health problems

  29-10-2015 13:11
  
  A growing number of lawsuits in France have begun to expose the serious risk faced by those working on non-organic vineyardsWenny Tari knows a thing or two about wine. She and her husband Gabriel have been making it since 1982, when they inherited a vineyard in France’s picturesque Languedoc region in the south of the country.Their 40 hectare Chateau de Brau vineyard is home to more than 170,000 individual vines, including some of the world’s best known grape varieties such as merlot
  
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• ​Porn filters to be put into law in UK, despite EU ruling against them - North Devon Journal

  29-10-2015 12:14
  North Devon Journal
  ​Porn filters to be put into law in UK, despite EU ruling against them
  North Devon Journal
  The UK Government's "porn filters" will still be put into law, despite the European Union voting through legislation to require all internet providers to treat online traffic "without discrimination". The EU's ruling has been met by dismay by anti-porn ...en meer »
  

• North Korea putting thousands into forced labour abroad, UN says

  29-10-2015 12:09
  
  Human rights official Marzuki Darusman claims 50,000 workers are being exploited to generate up to £1.5bn a year for the stateTens of thousands of North Koreans are being sent to work abroad in conditions that amount to forced labour, to circumvent United Nations sanctions and earn up to $2.3bn (£1.5bn) in foreign currency for the country, a UN investigator has said.Marzuki Darusman, the special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, said in a report to the UN general assembly an
  
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• LAA threatens to enlist contract winners for legal aid court battles

  29-10-2015 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal Aid Agency says it may invite successful bidders to join as parties to any court challenges to contract tender decisions.
  
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