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• ‘I’m embarrassed about how horribly overpaid I was’: tax campaigner Dan Neidle

  25-06-2023 17:44
  
  The former head of UK tax at Clifford Chance says he is now free to expose wrongdoing and unfairnessDan Neidle has thrice refused to say how much money he earned in his previous career as a partner at the “magic circle” law firm Clifford Chance. “I’m just not going to tell you,” Neidle, 49, says over flat whites at Compton, a restaurant and cocktail bar in Clerkenwell, London. Asked for the fourth time why he won’t say, given that he now promotes himself as a
  
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• Ten years of a crippled Voting Rights Act: how states make it harder to vote

  25-06-2023 12:00
  
  In a 5-4 ruling in 2013, the supreme court weakened the Voting Rights Act, clearing the way for state legislatures to pass voter suppression lawsFor the last 10 years, Helen Butler and a coalition of activists have tried to accomplish a near-impossible task: to closely monitor the monthly meetings of the local elections boards in each of Georgia’s 159 counties.The meetings can be tedious. Officials often discuss the nitty-gritty details of elections that can influence how easy it is to cas
  
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• A timeline of voting restrictions passed by US states since 2013

  25-06-2023 12:00
  
  In the decade since Voting Rights Act was gutted, states subject to pre-clearance have passed 20 laws that make casting a ballot difficultWhen the US supreme court issued a decision in 2013 crippling the power of the landmark Voting Rights Act, Republican-controlled legislatures saw it as a green light to push restrictive voting laws that likely would have been blocked previously.Before 2013, nine states and dozens of other jurisdictions with a history of racial discrimination in voting had to p
  
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• New guidance aims to restrict use of unregulated psychologists as expert witnesses in court

  25-06-2023 11:00
  
  Move aims to ensure only adequately trained professionals are used in trialsFamily judges who appoint unregulated psychologists as expert witnesses in the courts should issue a judgment to explain their decision, according to updated guidance designed to protect the public from inadequately trained professionals.Crucially, additions to existing joint guidance from the Family Justice Council and the British Psychological Society (BPS) also set out the distinction between a psychologist who is reg
  
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• Father in UK charged with rape made party to child’s care proceedings

  25-06-2023 11:00
  
  Court of appeal overrules decision to exclude man who allegedly conceived the boy with his niece through rapeA father without parental responsibility who has been charged with two counts of rape – and amid an allegation his son was conceived of rape – has won an appeal to be made party to care proceedings concerning the boy.The man, who is also the paternal uncle of the child’s mother, brought the appeal against a decision made by her honour Judge Wright to refuse his applicati
  
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• Father charged with rape made party to child’s care proceedings

  25-06-2023 11:00
  
  Court of appeal overrules decision to exclude man who allegedly conceived the boy with his niece through rapeA father without parental responsibility who has been charged with two counts of rape – and amid an allegation his son was conceived of rape – has won an appeal to be made party to care proceedings concerning the boy.The man, who is also the paternal uncle of the child’s mother, brought the appeal against a decision made by her honour Judge Wright to refuse his applicati
  
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