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• Police force wrong to dismiss ex-MP's 'vexatious' FOI requests

  21-04-2023 16:34 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  'Burden of being chased for missing a deadline can be avoided by not missing it in the first place,' tribunal notes.
  
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• Police force wrong to dismiss ex-MP's FOI requests as 'vexatious'

  21-04-2023 16:34 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  'Burden of being chased for missing a deadline can be avoided by not missing it in the first place,' tribunal notes.
  
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• New lord chancellor must 'get a grip' on justice crisis

  21-04-2023 15:52 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society urges Alex Chalk KC to bring the system back to full strength.
  
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• Legal aid supporter Alex Chalk named as lord chancellor

  21-04-2023 15:52 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society says Chalk must immediately get a grip on justice crisis.
  
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• Oliver Dowden named deputy PM and Alex Chalk justice secretary after Raab quits

  21-04-2023 14:58
  
  Rishi Sunak makes two key appointments following resignation of Dominic RaabUK politics live – latest updatesRishi Sunak has appointed his long-term ally Oliver Dowden as his deputy following the resignation of Dominic Raab, while making Alex Chalk the new justice secretary.Downing Street announced on Friday that the prime minister had promoted Dowden, a minister in the Cabinet Office, after Raab’s decision to stand down as a result of bullying allegations made against him. Continue
  
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• Raab's conduct at MoJ was unintentionally 'intimidating and insulting'

  21-04-2023 14:05 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  KC finds justice lord chancellor believed he met with ‘cultural resistance’ at government department.
  
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• Autonomy founder has US extradition appeal dismissed

  21-04-2023 13:34 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Dr Mike Lynch fails in US extradition appeal after judges find ‘no flaw’ in district judge’s approach.
  
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• 'Get with the programme' and go digital, Vos tells commercial lawyers

  21-04-2023 13:13 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  ‘Analogue’ litigation processes need to be rethought if London is to remain pre-eminent, master of the rolls says.
  
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• Magistrate subject to civil restraint order is removed

  21-04-2023 12:58 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Decision by Judicial Conduct Investigations Office followed repeated without-merit claims.
  
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• Draft rules for fixed costs extension are finally published

  21-04-2023 12:43 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Government gears up for implementation of the extension to most types of civil claims this October.
  
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• Raab resigns over bullying report

  21-04-2023 10:56 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Justice secretary had been in post since October but stepped down today.
  
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• Breaking: Raab resigns over bullying report

  21-04-2023 10:56 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Justice secretary had been in post since October but stepped down today.
  
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• Judge accuses appointments body of dodging public scrutiny

  21-04-2023 10:08 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Tribunal hears dispute over responses to requests made to Judicial Appointments Commission under the Freedom of Information Act.
  
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• No case for extending bereavement damages, says minister

  21-04-2023 09:38 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  MoJ does not want 'intrusive and upsetting investigation' of claimant’s relationship with deceased.
  
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• Adam Tolley: lawyer who investigated Raab is seen as safe pair of hands

  21-04-2023 08:00
  
  Lack of public profile may have appealed to Rishi Sunak when picking him to lead bullying inquiryThe lawyer Adam Tolley KC is not renowned outside legal circles but he has qualities that made him a safe pair of hands for the important and sensitive task of producing the report on bullying allegations that will probably determine Dominic Raab’s political future.He has not acted in a case that would have established him in the public consciousness and he is not on Twitter, unlike many of his
  
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• ABC thumbs its nose at News Corp and Acma with rerun of Fox and the Big Lie | Weekly Beast

  21-04-2023 06:27
  
  Revamped Sarah Ferguson documentary to air on Four Corners after initial version sparked complaints. Plus: the Australian’s own goalFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastHours before Lachlan Murdoch dropped his defamation case against Crikey, the ABC dropped its own reaction to Fox News and Dominion reaching a $787.5m settlement over US election lies.In a move which could be interpreted as the publ
  
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