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• Man who shot Black teenager Ralph Yarl must stand trial, Missouri judge rules

  31-08-2023 22:47
  
  Andrew Lester, 84, had shot Yarl on 13 April after the latter mistakenly went to his house to pick up his younger brothersA Missouri judge ruled Thursday that the 84-year-old white homeowner who shot a Black teenager after he mistakenly went to the man’s house must stand trial.Louis Angles, the Clay county judge, issued the ruling after hearing from several witnesses at a preliminary hearing, including Ralph Yarl, the teenager who was shot by Andrew Lester on 13 April when Yarl went to the
  
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• Pressure grows on Clarence Thomas after more gifts from rightwing donor

  31-08-2023 19:09
  
  Disclosures detail flights and stays with Harlan Crow as Democrats vow to investigate scandal ‘in which this court is enmired’The conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas faced further controversy on Thursday after the release of his financial disclosure form for 2022 provided evidence of more flights and stays with Harlan Crow, a Republican mega-donor.Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic senator from Rhode Island and judiciary committee member, called the form a “late-co
  
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• Source of funds frustration prompts 'conveyancing rant'

  31-08-2023 18:04 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Rose Davis says firms not really interested in conveyancing should stop messing about with it.
  
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• LiP who tweeted recording of tribunal hearing avoids jail

  31-08-2023 17:42 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Court finds litigant showed ‘deliberate defiance’ by publicising her audio recording.
  
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• PI firm had no contact with clients referred by claims farmer

  31-08-2023 17:17 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  SRA fines Manchester firm which failed to carry out required client identity checks.
  
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• Foul fumes and sewage spills in Tory stronghold of Michael Gove

  31-08-2023 16:50
  
  Aggrieved residents tell of issues in constituency of housing secretary planning to rip up pollution lawsWhile Michael Gove was deciding to weaken pollution laws for new housing developments this week, his own constituency was being plagued by the stench of human waste.People living on the outskirts of Camberley, the largest town in Gove’s constituency of Surrey Heath, have been complaining for months that foul-smelling fumes from the local sewage works have ruined their summers, causing e
  
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• RSPB versus the Tories: Six claims, the truth or otherwise

  31-08-2023 15:36
  
  Do the charity’s accusations that the government has reneged on a range of environmental pledges stand up to scrutiny?If the RSPB hoped to raise awareness about the perplexing concept of “nutrient neutrality” their post calling Rishi Sunak, Michael Gove and Thérèse Coffey “LIARS!” worked: it has, to date, been viewed by five million people.“You lie, and you lie, and you lie again,” the conservation charity declared on X, formerly Twitter, l
  
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• RSPB v the Tories: six environmental promises - lies or otherwise?

  31-08-2023 15:36
  
  Do the charity’s accusations that the government has reneged on a range of environmental pledges stand up to scrutiny?If the RSPB hoped to raise awareness about the perplexing concept of “nutrient neutrality” their post calling Rishi Sunak, Michael Gove and Thérèse Coffey “LIARS!” worked: it has, to date, been viewed by 5 million people.“You lie, and you lie, and you lie again,” the conservation charity declared on X, formerly Twitter, list
  
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• RSPB v the Tories: Six claims, the truth or otherwise

  31-08-2023 15:36
  
  Do the charity’s accusations that the government has reneged on a range of environmental pledges stand up to scrutiny?If the RSPB hoped to raise awareness about the perplexing concept of “nutrient neutrality” their post calling Rishi Sunak, Michael Gove and Thérèse Coffey “LIARS!” worked: it has, to date, been viewed by five million people.“You lie, and you lie, and you lie again,” the conservation charity declared on X, formerly Twitter, l
  
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• UK publishers urge Sunak to protect works ingested by AI models

  31-08-2023 14:00
  
  Publishers Association’s call comes as ChatGPT firm argues US lawsuit ‘misconceives scope’ of copyright lawUK publishers have urged the prime minister to protect authors’ and other content makers’ intellectual property rights as part of a forthcoming summit on artificial intelligence.The intervention came as OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT chatbot, argued in a legal filing that authors suing the business over its use of their work to train powerful AI systems
  
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• 'Cheap gesture politics': lawyers react to sentencing plan

  31-08-2023 12:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Prime minister told to focus on reducing case backlog rather than seeking to force offenders to court.
  
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• Law firm cuts deal to slash debts to partner CMC

  31-08-2023 11:48 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Claims management company owed £2.3m by businesses with the same management.
  
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• CILEX civil war: SRA makes its pitch for legal execs

  31-08-2023 11:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Consultation says the transfer of oversight from CILEx Regulation would benefit the public - but the Law Society disagrees.
  
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• SRA hit with £75,000 costs bill for 'speculative' prosecution

  31-08-2023 08:05 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Tribunal penalises regulator for 'inordinate delay' and damage to solicitor's reputation.
  
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• Donald Trump allegedly inflated his net worth by as much as $2.2bn in 2014

  31-08-2023 07:00
  
  Lawyers for Letitia James, the New York attorney general, claim the ex-president then used that blown up value for business dealsIn 2014, a year before entering politics and two years before winning the White House, Donald Trump inflated his net worth by as much as $2.2bn, lawyers for the attorney general of New York state alleged in court filings recently made public.Letitia James, a Democrat, is seeking summary judgment in her multimillion-dollar civil suit against the Trump Organization over
  
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