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• Morrisons fined £3.5m after death of employee with epilepsy

  17-03-2023 20:01
  
  Matthew Gunn, who fell from stairs during a seizure at Tewkesbury branch, suffered catastrophic head injuriesMorrisons has been fined £3.5m after an employee with epilepsy died when he fell from the stairs during a seizure.Matthew Gunn, 27, suffered catastrophic head injuries at the supermarket’s store in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. He had been using the staircase to access his locker on the first floor of the shop. Continue reading...
  
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• We all turn a blind eye to exploited carwash and nail bar workers | Letters

  17-03-2023 18:54
  
  Their plight has been ignored by authorities and customers for years, but that has to change, write Andrew Harrison and Eva BradshawTeresa Sayers (What do you really see when you visit hand carwashes in Britain? Exploited workers and criminality, 14 March) is right to highlight the appalling conditions that some workers are forced to endure at hand carwashes in the UK. Unfortunately the issue goes deeper than that, with nail bar workers often sharing many equally awful conditions.The plight of t
  
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• Why has the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin?

  17-03-2023 17:55
  
  Key details about the indictment of the Russian president and his children’s commissioner for the abduction of Ukrainian children• Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesThe international criminal court in The Hague has indicted the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and children’s commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, for the mass abduction of Ukrainian children.This means there is now an international arrest warrant out for Putin, a reflection of the speed with which the in
  
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• Putin’s alleged war crimes: who are the Ukrainian children being taken by Russia?

  17-03-2023 17:55
  
  What we know about the children behind the indictment of Vladimir Putin and his children’s commissioner for abduction• Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesThe international criminal court in The Hague has indicted the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and children’s commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, for the mass abduction of Ukrainian children.This means there is now an international arrest warrant out for Putin, a reflection of the speed with which the international
  
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• Peer Nazir Ahmed’s jail term for 1970s sexual assault cut by three years

  17-03-2023 15:20
  
  Appeal court judges reduce sentence to six months for buggery of boy when ex-Labour MP was a teenagerA peer who sexually assaulted a boy and attempted to rape a young girl when he was a teenager has had his jail term cut by judges at the court of appeal.The former Labour politician Nazir Ahmed was convicted in January 2022 of three sex crimes which happened in the 1970s in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Continue reading...
  
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• One year on, has P&O Ferries got away with illegally sacking all its crew?

  17-03-2023 14:09
  
  Despite outrage at the time, no staff have been reinstated, no law reforms initiated, and no sanctions started against directors or ownersOn a bright March morning a year ago, it took just a few hours for P&O Ferries to bring the careers of its seafaring crew to a shocking halt. Recalling the fleet to port, it summarily sacked 786 people, many by video message – with foreign agency staff lined up to take their place.Politicians were united in outrage; the then prime minister, Boris Joh
  
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• 'Onslaught' of extra AML burdens likely to increase - SRA chief

  17-03-2023 13:44 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Firms can expect more bureaucracy and regulation as a result of government pressure.
  
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• Fraudster convicted decade ago must pay up £92,500

  17-03-2023 12:37 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Serious Fraud Office succeeds against property dealer jailed for one of the UK’s biggest mortgage frauds.
  
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• Fraudster convicted decade ago must pay £92,500

  17-03-2023 12:37 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Serious Fraud Office succeeds against property dealer jailed for one of the UK’s biggest mortgage frauds.
  
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• Trinidad and Tobago is failing children locked in Syrian camps – it must bring them home | Kenneth Mohammed

  17-03-2023 12:30
  
  During Covid, the Caribbean republic shut its borders, stranding citizensoverseas; now it has left children vulnerable to illness, death and IS recruitmentWhen is it acceptable for a government to lock its citizens out of their country, to leave them stranded overseas, trampling the constitutional and human rights of those who pay their salaries? During a pandemic perhaps?When is it acceptable to disown nationals, especially children who are victims of misguided decisions made by their brainwash
  
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• Firm sets up foundation to help those the law cannot

  17-03-2023 12:18 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Charitable body to support people who suffer life-changing injuries or trauma but cannot make a legal claim.
  
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• Mother of disabled woman who killed herself wins appeal for new inquest

  17-03-2023 12:03
  
  Jodey Whiting of Stockton-on-Tees died in 2017 about two weeks after her disability benefit was stopped The mother of Jodey Whiting, a housebound disabled woman who killed herself after her benefits were cut, has won an appeal for a fresh inquest into her daughter’s death.Whiting, 42, from Stockton-on-Tees, died in February 2017 about two weeks after her disability benefit was stopped when she did not attend a work capability assessment. Continue reading...
  
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• Liverpool fans press on with Paris claims despite refund offer

  17-03-2023 11:42 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Thousands pursue legal action over mistreatment before showpiece football final.
  
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• Magistrate 'spoke to colleagues listed to hear relative's case'

  17-03-2023 11:02 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Conduct panel found Stevan Marvin's actions risked undermining public confidence in judicial impartiality.
  
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• SRA's freelancer research 'skewed' towards solicitors and not clients

  17-03-2023 10:47 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Consumer panel asks why the Solicitors Regulation Authority is not doing more to ensure people using freelance solicitors know what protections they have.
  
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• Dominic Raab to push for tougher minimum sentence in domestic homicides

  17-03-2023 01:01
  
  Move follows pressure from campaigners such as Julie Devey and Carole Gould whose daughters were murderedDomestic abusers in England and Wales who kill their partners or ex-partners are to face tougher sentences under government plans after a campaign by bereaved families.The justice secretary and lord chancellor, Dominic Raab, will push for a change in the law after pressure from campaigners such as Julie Devey and Carole Gould, who have been calling since 2020 for a change to the minimum sente
  
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