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• US supreme court: Clarence Thomas reportedly accepted more undisclosed gifts as calls for reform grow – as it happened

  10-07-2023 22:00
  
  Media reports say justice has benefited from being part of elite, wealthy circle; campaigners to call on Congress calling for corruption investigationGeorge Santos, the Republican congressman whose résumé has been shown to be largely fabricated and who has pleaded not guilty to 13 counts of fraud, money laundering and theft of public funds, stoked outrage by comparing himself to the great civil rights campaigner Rosa Parks.“Rosa Parks didn’t sit in the back, and neither
  
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• Tory rebels offered concessions on asylum legislation

  10-07-2023 21:17
  
  Plan obliging Braverman to send thousands of asylum seekers who arrive this summer to Rwanda axed, amid fears of Commons defeatMinisters have been forced to offer rebel Conservative MPs concessions on key legislation on asylum amid growing concern that it would fail to pass through the Commons.The government has dropped nearly all of the retrospective applications of the illegal migration bill’s measures – a move that will mean Suella Braverman will no longer be obliged to deport tho
  
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• US supreme court: Clarence Thomas reportedly accepted more undisclosed gifts as calls for reform grow – live

  10-07-2023 19:53
  
  Media reports say justice has benefited from being part of elite, wealthy circle; campaigners to call on Congress calling for corruption investigationGeorge Santos, the Republican congressman whose résumé has been shown to be largely fabricated and who has pleaded not guilty to 13 counts of fraud, money laundering and theft of public funds, stoked outrage by comparing himself to the great civil rights campaigner Rosa Parks.“Rosa Parks didn’t sit in the back, and neither
  
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• The Guardian view on rape cases: the government has a long way to go | Editorial

  10-07-2023 19:32
  
  The number of prosecutions has risen, but the overall situation is concerning, with a record-high level of sex offences recordedRape and other serious sexual offences devastate the lives of victims, who carry scars with them through their lives. Prosecutions and convictions for these crimes remain too rare. In the year to September 2022, there were 70,633 rapes reported by police in England and Wales; in 2022, there were 459 convictions. Such an enormous gap is nothing new and has led campaigner
  
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• UK should press pause on deep-sea mining, Labour says

  10-07-2023 18:26
  
  David Lammy says Labour government would join growing list of countries and multinationals opposing rush to mine the seabedThe Labour party has said the UK should back the call for a precautionary pause on deep-sea mining, ahead of a crucial meeting of nations in Jamaica to decide the future of the industry.David Lammy, the shadow foreign secretary, said the Labour party was adding its voice to a growing list of countries and businesses urging that moves to start mining be halted “until an
  
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• Solicitor struck off for hiding friendship with convicted money lender

  10-07-2023 17:23 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Tribunal finds Malcolm Glynn made at least 10 statements he knew were untrue.
  
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• UK ‘would back global pause on mining deep sea under a Labour government’

  10-07-2023 17:08
  
  Labour’s David Lammy backs calls to protect marine environment as International Seabed Authority meets to rule on mining seabed The Labour party has said the UK should back the call for a precautionary pause on deep-sea mining, ahead of a crucial meeting of nations in Jamaica to decide the future of the industry.David Lammy, the shadow foreign secretary, said the Labour party was adding its voice to a growing list of countries and businesses urging that moves to start mining be halted &ldq
  
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• News focus: Lawyers in the crosshairs at Post Office Inquiry

  10-07-2023 16:07 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Phase four of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry is turning its attention to the role of lawyers in civil and criminal proceedings, investigations and disclosure. This could be a seminal moment.
  
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• Tory rebels offered concessions on anti-asylum legislation

  10-07-2023 15:20
  
  Fearing defeats, government expected to limit plans to detain children and pregnant women arriving on small boatsUK politics live – latest updatesMinisters are offering rebel Conservative MPs concessions on key anti-asylum legislation amid growing concern it could face defeats in the Commons.The government is expected to limit plans to detain children and pregnant women who arrive in the UK by small boats and drop some of the retrospective applications of the illegal migration bill’s
  
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• US supreme court: campaigners to call for formal investigations into alleged corruption – live

  10-07-2023 15:10
  
  Coalition of more than 100 advocacy groups to send letter to Congress saying ethics an corruption revelations ‘undermined public trust’ in courtThe US chief justice should testify before Congress about ethics scandals besetting his supreme court “for the good of democracy”, a leading Californian progressive said.The justices are “so cloistered, they’re so out of touch”, the congressman Ro Khanna told MSNBC on Sunday.They don’t have a sense of what
  
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• Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement

  10-07-2023 14:41
  
  US comedian joins two other authors in lawsuit claiming AI was trained on their work without permissionThe US comedian and author Sarah Silverman is suing the ChatGPT developer OpenAI and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta for copyright infringement over claims that their artificial intelligence models were trained on her work without permission.Silverman has filed the suits along with two authors, Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, in which they claim the AI models developed by OpenAI and Meta us
  
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• Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta claiming AI training infringed copyright

  10-07-2023 14:41
  
  US comedian and two other authors say artificial intelligence models used their work without permissionThe US comedian and author Sarah Silverman is suing the ChatGPT developer OpenAI and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta for copyright infringement over claims that their artificial intelligence models were trained on her work without permission.Silverman has filed the suits along with two authors, Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, in which they claim the AI models developed by OpenAI and Meta us
  
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• Private equity house in talks to buy DWF

  10-07-2023 13:07 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Share price bounces as company confirms talks are ongoing.
  
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• Interest rate hikes hitting key sectors, reveals leading firm

  10-07-2023 12:22 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Organic growth flat at listed firm Knights but acquisitions boost revenue.
  
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• Firm refused injunction against former employee

  10-07-2023 11:23 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  High Court judge finds restraint sought 'imposes greater restrictions than had been contractually agreed upon’.
  
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• Ex-trainee solicitor banned for possessing indecent images

  10-07-2023 11:06 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Court of Protection worker arrested six months after beginning his training contract.
  
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• I started work as a prison officer full of optimism, but in a rat-infested jail I saw the ugly, violent reality | Alex South

  10-07-2023 09:00
  
  Incredible work goes on in our prisons every day, but cuts and staff attrition made the job stagnant and stressful, and the toll became too heavyI’ve been asked many times why I became a prison officer. People don’t often ask me why I quit. But the reasons are very similar. I was 22 years old when I joined the Prison Service, a young woman starting at a high security men’s prison in Cambridgeshire. I can still remember how nervous I felt, how shiny my unworn boots looked, how h
  
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• Young partner surprised at recorder appointment

  10-07-2023 02:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The 34-year-old believes he may be one of the youngest solicitors appointed to the civil jurisdiction as a recorder.
  
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• SDT considers misconduct allegations in private prosecution

  10-07-2023 02:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The panel was told in closing submissions by solicitor’s lawyer that there was ‘never any proper basis for allegation to be made’.
  
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• Post Office disclosure failings show ‘lack of clear thinking’ - inquiry chair

  10-07-2023 02:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Organisation scolded and warned after disclosure errors caused hearing postponement.
  
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• Digital mentoring scheme to boost black representation in the law

  10-07-2023 02:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal recruitment firm has built platform that will connect senior decision-makers with black qualified lawyers.
  
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• Cross-border management of PI awards

  10-07-2023 02:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
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• Campaigners say ministers ‘too quick’ to celebrate increased rape convictions

  10-07-2023 01:01
  
  Justice secretary cites ‘significant progress’, but campaigners point out that vast majority of rape survivors still do not report to policeViolence against women campaigners have accused ministers of being too quick to celebrate increased rape convictions while overall reporting rates remain low.The justice secretary, Alex Chalk, said on Monday that the government was on course to exceed a target to reverse low conviction rates for rape by the end of this parliament. Continue readin
  
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