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• Carole Cadwalladr to appeal ruling that she pay legal costs in Arron Banks case

  23-05-2023 20:10
  
  Decision to make journalist responsible for hundreds of thousands of pounds of legal costs sets ‘chilling precedent for UK journalism’The award-winning Guardian and Observer journalist Carole Cadwalladr will appeal against a ruling that ordered her to pay significant legal costs to the prominent Brexit backer Arron Banks.The appeal court ruling last week was widely criticised by news outlets, press freedom organisations and prominent international journalists including the Nobel Peac
  
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• Carole Cadwalladr to appeal against ruling that she pay Arron Banks’s legal costs

  23-05-2023 20:10
  
  Decision to make journalist responsible for hundreds of thousands of pounds in legal costs sets ‘chilling precedent for UK journalism’The award-winning Guardian and Observer journalist Carole Cadwalladr will appeal against a ruling that ordered her to pay significant legal costs to the prominent Brexit backer Arron Banks.The appeal court ruling last week was widely criticised by news outlets, press freedom organisations and prominent international journalists including the Nobel Peac
  
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• Blank pages in evidence caused £40,000 legal aid overpayment

  23-05-2023 18:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Judge suggests CPS 'evaluate the issue' of uploading print previews of spreadsheets to case system.
  
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• News focus: London International Disputes Week - in-house keeping

  23-05-2023 15:52 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The repercussions of the Online Safety Bill and the need to educate colleagues on their role were front of mind for in-house disputes lawyers at London International Disputes Week.
  
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• Judicial recruitment process leaves family solicitor in tears

  23-05-2023 13:40 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  As Family Division president urges lawyers to aim for the bench, solicitors reveal they are applying without success.
  
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• Battle of the brands continues as Lidl seeks disclosure

  23-05-2023 13:36 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Budget supermarket tells court Tesco ‘undervalued’ the benefit of infringing yellow and blue logo.
  
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• Government delays scrapping limitation period for child abuse cases

  23-05-2023 12:58 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Campaigners say the case for removing three-year limit has already been made.
  
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• 'Skeleton in the cupboard' senior partner agrees strike-off

  23-05-2023 11:54 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Solicitor of more than 40 years issued unjustified invoices and failed to bank cheques.
  
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• We are closer than ever to arresting Putin, but the US must play its part | Gordon Brown

  23-05-2023 11:00
  
  This summer will be a crisis point for the Russian president, as demands for action intensifyA new grassroots campaign calling for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to be tried for war crimes represents an escalation in the demand for justice for the people of Ukraine. Already 2 million have signed a petition calling for Putin’s indictment.Now, in the run-up to August’s Brics summit (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) to be held in Johannesburg, more than half a mill
  
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• Trainee solicitor awarded four weeks' pay after firm changed contract terms

  23-05-2023 11:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  New starter wanted second office location removed from contract.
  
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• 'Rape myths' consultation floats curbs on barristers' conduct

  23-05-2023 07:49 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Commission seeks views on whether judges should pre-approve certain lines of questioning in sexual offence trials.
  
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• Law Commission calls for tighter rules on use of personal records in rape trials

  23-05-2023 01:01
  
  Review recommends legislative changes in England and Wales to counteract ‘pernicious’ myths contaminating court casesGreater restrictions should be introduced on the use of rape complainants’ personal records and evidence relating to their sexual behaviour to avoid rape myths contaminating trials in England and Wales, a government-commissioned review has said.The Law Commission suggested that legislative change was necessary to address the decline in rape prosecution and convic
  
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• E Jean Carroll files for new damages after Trump’s CNN town hall remarks

  23-05-2023 00:14
  
  Author’s court filing comes after the ex-president demeaned her a day after being found liable for sexual abuseAuthor and columnist E Jean Carroll is going back to court to demand “very substantial” additional damages from former US president Donald Trump for the disparaging remarks he made about her during a televised CNN town hall just a day after he was found liable in a civil case for sexually assaulting her.Carroll made a filing in federal court in New York on Monday, the
  
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