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• We need a choice in how life ends, but poor care must not be the driver | Letters

  14-04-2023 18:47
  
  Readers respond to Ella Creamer’s article on her mother’s slow and painful deathI found Ella Creamer’s article (My mum’s death was slow and painful – she deserved the choice to end her life, 6 April) about needing to have a choice in how our life ends incredibly moving, largely because it so closely mirrored my experience with both my mother, who died in 2010 when I was 19, and my grandmother, who died 10 years later. Both died of cancer.My mother spent two months i
  
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• The Nuremberg trials and the world’s judgment on Putin | Letters

  14-04-2023 18:47
  
  The Soviets had to be dragged into the Nuremberg approach, writes Dianne Hayter, while Maureen Jack says victors’ crimes should also be dealt withJohn Kampfner’s perceptive piece on the postwar Nazi trials (If we want Vladimir Putin brought to justice, Nuremberg has much to teach us, 10 April) omitted one element – that the Soviets had to be dragged, screaming and shouting, into the Nuremberg approach. Specific charges, the production and testing of evidence (by cross-examinati
  
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• Netherlands to broaden euthanasia rules to cover children of all ages

  14-04-2023 17:20
  
  New regulations will apply to those aged one to 12 who suffer unbearably and have no hope of improvementThe Netherlands is to widen its euthanasia regulations to include the possibility of doctors assisting in the death of terminally ill children aged between one and 12.The new rules would apply to between five and 10 children a year who suffer unbearably from their disease, have no hope of improvement and for whom palliative care cannot bring relief, the government said on Friday. Continue read
  
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• Landowner accuses Dartmoor officials of ‘acting like campaigners’

  14-04-2023 16:22
  
  Dartmoor National Park Authority is preparing to appeal against court decision to overturn right to wild campA wealthy landowner has accused Dartmoor National Park Authority (DPNA) officials of “acting like campaigners” as they prepare to appeal against a court decision to overturn the right to wild camp.Earlier this year, as a result of a court case brought by a local landowner, backpack camping, also known as wild camping, was made illegal on Dartmoor without landowner permission,
  
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• Head of family law was constructively dismissed over bonus

  14-04-2023 12:49 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Employment tribunal rules non-payment of bonus was ‘fundamental breach of contract’.
  
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• Sector specialists cool on failure to prevent fraud offence

  14-04-2023 12:04 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  ‘Failure to prevent’ doctrine as applied to bribery or tax evasion might not be applicable to fraud, legal experts warn.
  
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• More judges want to quit before retirement, official survey shows

  14-04-2023 11:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Workload, pension and pay prompting judges to consider quitting in next five years.
  
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• 'Defenders of the defenders' face more violence in Colombia

  14-04-2023 11:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  UK charity's latest investigation details ‘significant’ under-resourcing and ‘continuity and intensification of violence’.
  
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• 'Wholly unreasonable': SRA hit with costs bill for 'desultory approach' to disclosure

  14-04-2023 10:10 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  SDT orders Solicitors Regulation Authority to pay almost £15,000 in wasted costs for multiple disclosure failings in high-profile prosecution.
  
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• Costs bill for SRA's 'desultory approach' to disclosure

  14-04-2023 10:10 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  SDT orders Solicitors Regulation Authority to pay almost £15,000 in wasted costs for multiple disclosure failings in high-profile prosecution.
  
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