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• Judges urged to block Home Office plans to send refugees to Rwanda

  27-04-2023 20:56
  
  Court of appeal hears Rwanda plan will expose refugees to ‘serious harm’ and is incompatible with UK’s international obligationsSenior judges have been urged to block government plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.In a four-day hearing at the court of appeal, which concluded on Thursday, the lord chief justice, Lord Burnett, master of the rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos, and Lord Justice Underhill, deputy president of the civil division of the appeal court, heard an appeal against a
  
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• Has time run out for Prince Harry’s case against Murdoch press?

  27-04-2023 20:42
  
  Duke of Sussex may have missed the deadline to take action relating to allegations of phone hacking at the Sun and News of the WorldPrince Harry’s attempt to arrange a high court showdown with Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper company depends on one thing: did the prince meet a deadline to file his legal paperwork?This week’s legal hearing at the high court in London has been full of fresh revelations about the relationship between royalty and the media. There have been claims that Pr
  
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• The Guardian view on gambling reform: fighting the British disease | Editorial

  27-04-2023 19:26
  
  Updated laws for the online era are essential and overdue, but the government’s proposals do not go far enough Over the years, a variety of national troubles have been characterised as the British disease – among them economic stagnation, football hooliganism and nostalgia for empire. But there is a strong case for saying that the real British disease is and always has been gambling. According to the Gambling Commission, 44% of Britons today aged over 16 are gamblers of some kind, wi
  
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• Lawyers outraged by government failure to disclose terrorism-prediction tool’s serious problems

  27-04-2023 17:00
  
  Hayley Le, whose clients were assessed to be at risk of offending due to extreme beliefs, calls for judicial review of ‘confronting’ conductFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastLawyers for four men targeted using extraordinary terrorism powers are outraged at the failure to disclose serious problems with a tool being used to predict their clients’ likelihood of future offending.The law
  
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• Lord Phillips of Sudbury obituary

  27-04-2023 16:55
  
  Solicitor who was determined to widen access to the justice system and featured as ‘legal eagle’ on Radio 2’s Jimmy Young ShowAndrew Phillips, Lord Phillips of Sudbury, who has died aged 84, was a champion of “law for every man and woman”. As a pre-eminent charity solicitor, broadcaster and parliamentarian, he founded pioneering organisations dedicated to the widening of access to the justice system for the ordinary citizen, and energetically promoted individual rig
  
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• Britain leaving ECHR would be ‘catastrophic’, says development minister

  27-04-2023 16:05
  
  Andrew Mitchell says departure, pushed by some in cabinet to allow for Rwanda plan, is ‘incredibly unlikely’The UK’s departure from the European convention on human rights would be catastrophic and is extremely unlikely, the development minister, Andrew Mitchell said, as he launched plans designed to show the UK was back as a global leader on development.His remarks put him at odds with those in the cabinet who have said they are prepared to leave the ECHR if it is necessary to
  
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• Sentence of Kenyan man convicted of role in Briton’s murder is quashed

  27-04-2023 16:00
  
  David Tebbutt’s widow ‘delighted’ as court rules conviction of Ali Kololo for robbery with violence was unsafeA man found guilty of being part of a gang of pirates who murdered a British tourist 12 years ago has had his conviction quashed by Kenya’s high court.Ali Kololo, from Lamu County, was convicted of robbery with violence in connection with the 2011 attack that left David Tebbutt dead and his wife, Judith, held captive in Somalia for six months. Continue reading...
  
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• Migration bill gives government 'sanction to breach international law'

  27-04-2023 13:54 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Former attorney general questions amendment regarding interim measures of European Court of Human Rights.
  
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• Barrister fearful over notes in Gray’s Inn 'bomb' plot trial, court hears

  27-04-2023 10:49 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Trial continues into alleged conspiracy to plant explosives in legal centre.
  
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• Barrister fearful over notes in Gray’s Inn 'bomb' plot, court hears

  27-04-2023 10:49 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Trial continues into alleged conspiracy to place devices in legal centre.
  
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• Top judge concerned hearings now 'invisible' to public

  27-04-2023 02:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Lord Justice Briggs backs more public access to court papers in real time.
  
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• Supreme Court justice fears hearings now 'invisible' to public

  27-04-2023 02:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Briggs LJ backs more public access to court papers in real time.
  
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• Fugees rapper, accused of multimillion-dollar political conspiracies, convicted

  27-04-2023 00:44
  
  Prakazrel Michel was accused of funneling money during Obama’s campaign and influencing an extradition to ChinaA Fugees rapper accused in multimillion-dollar political conspiracies spanning two presidencies was convicted Wednesday after a trial that included testimony ranging from actor Leonardo DiCaprio to former US attorney general Jeff Sessions.Prakazrel “Pras” Michel was accused of funneling money from a now-fugitive Malaysian financier, Low Taek Jho, through straw donors t
  
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