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• Senior senators threaten to step up supreme court ethics reform after Samuel Alito revelations – as it happened

  21-06-2023 22:04
  
  Alito reportedly accepted seat on private plane owned by Paul Singer; expert says he should have recused himself from Singer cases before the courtFull report: Alito did not declare gifts from billionaire with cases before supreme courtThe Democratic National Committee will raise pro-choice abortion billboards across key voting states as the country gears up for the 2024 presidential election.The billboard campaign will begin on Thursday in New York City’s Times Square and will also featur
  
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• Senior senators threaten to step up supreme court ethics reform after Samuel Alito revelations – live

  21-06-2023 20:08
  
  Alito reportedly accepted seat on private plane owned by Paul Singer; expert says he should have recused himself from Singer cases before the courtThe Democratic National Committee will raise pro-choice abortion billboards across key voting states as the country gears up for the 2024 presidential election.The billboard campaign will begin on Thursday in New York City’s Times Square and will also feature in Atlanta, Phoenix, Milwaukee, Tallahassee, and Raleigh, CBS reports.“Just like
  
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• Solicitor-deputy banned for overcharging vulnerable clients

  21-06-2023 17:23 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law firm’s former head of Court of Protection also admitted keeping a phone bought with client money.
  
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• Leading solicitor banned for overcharging vulnerable clients

  21-06-2023 17:23 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law firm’s former head of Court of Protection also admitted keeping a phone bought with client money.
  
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• Climate campaigner takes Surrey oil drilling case to supreme court

  21-06-2023 16:32
  
  Sarah Finch’s challenge to plans to allow oil well hinges on wider environmental impact of fossil fuels Climate campaigners have begun a supreme court challenge to plans to drill for oil in Surrey, in a case they hope could set a precedent restricting plans for future fossil fuel projects in the UK.Sarah Finch is challenging Surrey county council’s decision to extend permission for a well at Horse Hill, near Gatwick airport in the Surrey countryside, which taps a subterranean reservo
  
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• 'Pitiful' collusion claim against firm thrown out in High Court

  21-06-2023 16:26 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Judge says claimant had three chances to advance his case and now 'enough is enough'.
  
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• Supreme court justice Samuel Alito facing ethics questions over undeclared gifts from billionaire – live

  21-06-2023 14:54
  
  Alito reportedly accepted seat on private plane owned by Paul Singer; expert says he should have recused himself from Singer cases before the courtGood morning,Supreme court justice Samuel Alito is facing questions for not declaring several gifts received from conservative billionaire Paul Singer, and for not recusing himself when Singer had cases presented before the court.Joe Biden will host India prime minister Narendra Modi at the White House on Wednesday evening. Several democrats are calli
  
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• Access to justice 'should be every lord chancellor's mission' says Chalk

  21-06-2023 13:29 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal aid barrister 'spending a little time in politics' promises parliamentarians that he will do his best.
  
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• China is state most dangerous to its own citizens’ civil rights, report finds

  21-06-2023 13:00
  
  China scores better on food, health and housing, while crackdowns have worsened Hong Kong’s ratingsChina has been ranked as the worst country in the world for safety from the state and the right to assembly, in a human rights report that tracks social, economic and political freedoms.The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI), a New Zealand-based project, has been monitoring various countries’ human rights performance since 2017. Continue reading...
  
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• Control your costs, Society tells SRA

  21-06-2023 12:59 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Proposed 12% budget increase could impact firms already facing inflationary pressures.
  
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• Firm called in to review bar's struggling enforcement system

  21-06-2023 12:47 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Bar Standards Board received a red light warning from its oversight regulator earlier this year.
  
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• TLT reaches 33% female partner target two years early

  21-06-2023 12:16 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Chief people officer says latest achievement is promising but national firm still has a long way to go.
  
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• SRA to pay £38,000 costs after rebuke overturned

  21-06-2023 11:07 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Adjudicator had wrongly penalised a head of practice for mistakes made by external advisers.
  
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• Post Office GC to appear at inquiry over disclosure issue

  21-06-2023 10:56 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Documents which should have been disclosed to the inquiry only emerged through an FOI request.
  
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• ‘It’s just you – and memories’: Kenyan rape survivors find help hard to find

  21-06-2023 08:00
  
  Tracey Doyin took to TikTok after she experienced the official indifference and lack of support faced by sexual assault victimsIt was during the early-evening rush hour in Nairobi that Tracey Doyin, 23, was raped by two men as she walked home from a grocery shop near one of the city’s main roads. Forced off the street into a deserted spot, they took all her belongings and attacked her at knifepoint.Two hours later, when it was dark, they let her go. She made her way to the house of a frien
  
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