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• Portuguese parliament legalises euthanasia after long battle

  12-05-2023 19:54
  
  Decision to allow medically assisted dying has divided the deeply Catholic countryAfter a long battle, Portugal passed a law on Friday legalising euthanasia for people in great suffering and with incurable diseases, joining just a handful of countries around the world.The issue has divided the deeply Catholic country and witnessed strong opposition from conservative president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, a devout churchgoer. Continue reading...
  
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• Litigant penalised for being 'rude and abusive' to opponent's firm

  12-05-2023 17:41 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Court awards indemnity costs in personal injury case as punishment for the conduct of the defence.
  
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• Leader of Kenyan waste pickers: ‘We are the backbone of recycling’

  12-05-2023 14:00
  
  After a childhood on the dump, John Chweya wants to ensure rights are enshrined in UN plastic pollution treatyAs a boy John Chweya was one of many children who scrambled over the mountain of stinking waste at Kachok dump, using a magnet that he dangled over the rubbish to pull out metal scraps and earn a living.Over the years since, global companies such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Nestlé have increased plastic production by millions of metric tonnes, and plastic bottles have replaced metal a
  
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• UK anti-boycott bill is attack on freedom of expression, say civil society groups

  12-05-2023 13:48
  
  Boycotts, divestment and sanctions bill, designed to stop public bodies boycotting Israel, will be tabled soonPlans to stop UK public bodies boycotting foreign countries and British companies that trade with them represent a further attack on the right to freedom of expression, civil society groups have said.Officials from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) have said the boycotts, divestment and sanctions bill, announced in last year’s Queen’s speech and
  
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• Experts must include contrary views in evidence, conference told

  12-05-2023 13:19 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  There is no conflict between duties to the client and to the court, Lady Justice Simler tells expert witnesses.
  
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• ‘We’re against LGBT’: Erdoğan targets gay and trans people ahead of critical Turkish election

  12-05-2023 13:00
  
  Scant progress for women’s and LGBTQ+ rights in peril ahead of polls as president’s ‘family values’ rhetoric stokes culture warAt campaign rallies across Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has missed no opportunity to attack gay and trans people. “We are against the LGBT,” he told one rally near the Black Sea. “Family is sacred to us – a strong family means a strong nation.”At another rally earlier this month, Erdoğan accused ev
  
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• Cleared barrister 'vindicated but exhausted' after long SRA fight

  12-05-2023 12:13 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Layla Dean-Verity says the SRA should apologise and help her recover costs.
  
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• Gowling 'appalled' by ex-director found guilty of misconduct

  12-05-2023 10:48 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal finds multiple allegations proved against Oliver Bretherton.
  
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• Gowling 'appalled' as tribunal finds ex-director guilty of misconduct

  12-05-2023 10:48 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal finds multiple allegations proved against Oliver Bretherton.
  
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• Tories’ revised plans to scrap EU laws are still reckless, say lawyers

  12-05-2023 08:00
  
  Kemi Badenoch’s ‘irresponsible’ proposals risk undermining rights relating to discrimination, the environment and consumers, according to top barristersThe Conservatives’ decision to water down proposed legislation to remove 4,000 EU laws from the statute books is still a “reckless” and “irresponsible” project, leading barristers have said.While the business secretary, Kemi Badenoch, was accused of “a massive climbdown”, barristers say
  
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• The coronation arrests are just the start. Police can do what they want to us now | George Monbiot

  12-05-2023 07:00
  
  Draconian new powers allow the police to shut down every form of effective protest. It’s a green light for even greater abusesThe more unequal a society becomes, the more oppressive its laws must be. This, I think, explains new acts that would not be out of place in a police state. So vague and broad are the powers granted to the police under last year’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act and this year’s Public Order Act that it is no longer clear where their abuse begins
  
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• ‘My time in the UK has been a disaster’: Hongkongers fear deportation after years left in limbo

  12-05-2023 07:00
  
  Britain vowed to protect citizens of its former colony, but the Guardian has spoken to people stuck in temporary accommodation not knowing if they will be granted asylumIn March 2021, less than one month after his 18th birthday, Lawson* made a decision that would change the course of his life for ever.The previous year had been tumultuous in Hong Kong. Lawson, like millions of other Hongkongers, had taken to the streets to participate in pro-democracy protests against the influence of the Chines
  
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