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• French equality watchdog finds 90% of online pornography abuses women

  27-09-2023 19:02
  
  Report urges changes in the law to make it easier to take down abusive content and prosecute its makersAs much as 90% of pornographic content online features verbal, physical and sexual violence towards women, and a significant amount of violence shown is punishable under existing laws in France, a report by the government-nominated equality watchdog has found.France’s high council for equality between women and men on Wednesday handed the government a damning report on illegal porn-indust
  
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• Criminal gangs in UK sending recruits to train as prison officers, union warns

  27-09-2023 18:00
  
  Exclusive: POA says corrupt officers are then used for sole purpose of smuggling in drugs and phonesOrganised crime groups are sending associates to train as prison officers with the “sole purpose” of smuggling drugs and phones into jail, the Prison Officers’ Association has warned.The POA, the union representing prison workers, blamed low pay and said online interviews were also contributing to the prison service “hiring the wrong people”. Continue reading...
  
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• Taskforce to examine ethics of firms acting for oligarchs

  27-09-2023 17:59 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The group, made up of senior lawyers and civil society representatives, will provide guidance and recommendations.
  
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• Early family intervention is vital for care system to be effective | Letter

  27-09-2023 17:35
  
  Sylvia Rose, who worked in child protection, says social care itself is not to blame for people entering the youth justice systemTo say that children in care are more likely to enter the youth justice system is true, but the implication that the care system is to blame is not (Childhood in care raises risk of entering English youth justice system eightfold, 21 September). I worked in child protection for many years and saw firsthand how children cannot be legally removed from an unsafe parenting
  
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• Expert witnesses protest new 20-page report limit

  27-09-2023 17:33 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  New rules for fixed recoverable costs extension restrict the length of expert reports.
  
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• Dame Sue Carr likely to be known as lady chief justice

  27-09-2023 17:10 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  First woman in the role had been thought likely to assume the title of lord chief justice.
  
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• Dame Sue Carr likely to be called lady chief justice

  27-09-2023 17:10 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  The first female in the role was initially believed to be taking the lord chief justice title.
  
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• Law firms and banks ‘at risk’ of sanctions breaches

  27-09-2023 16:16 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal practices finding it ‘really difficult’ to employ the right compliance staff, Law Society conference hears.
  
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• Law firms and banks ‘at risk’ of breaching sanctions

  27-09-2023 16:16 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal practices finding it ‘really difficult’ to employ the right compliance staff, Law Society conference hears.
  
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• Tribunal deals pensions blow to judges

  27-09-2023 13:18 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Recorders compulsorily enrolled in different pensions scheme when they were appointed circuit judges.
  
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• 'We did what we had to': SRA chief content with Axiom Ince action

  27-09-2023 13:14 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  SRA intervened just weeks after Axiom Ince secured deal to buy Plexus Legal.
  
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• Solicitor who lost claim for £10m stately home must pay £725k costs

  27-09-2023 13:06 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  'Experienced' lawyer refused to move out of mansion vacated by former diplomat shielding from Covid.
  
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• CPS declined to charge undercover police officer who deceived woman into 19-year relationship

  27-09-2023 13:00
  
  Senior officers convened in 2013 to hear ‘unbelievably bad’ news about relationshipProsecutors did not hear evidence from victim before deciding not to charge officer for misconductWoman not told true identity of man with whom she has a child until 2020, when they were engagedThe Crown Prosecution Service decided not to pursue charges against an undercover police officer who deceived a woman into a 19-year relationship without even hearing evidence from the victim in the case.The CPS
  
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• Cashier who stole thousands from her firm is banned

  27-09-2023 12:16 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Partners reported sleepless nights trying to deal with fallout from employee’s fraud.
  
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• A meat processer killed a 16-year-old. Yet US lawmakers want more child labor | Akin Olla

  27-09-2023 12:02
  
  Adult workers are demanding a fairer slice of corporate profits – so child labor is a way to increase and undercut the labor poolThis July the body of 16-year-old Duvan Tomas Perez “became entangled” in meat processing machinery in Mississippi, according to a statement from Mar-Jac Poultry, the company where the boy was working. Perez was too young to be working there, according to Mar-Jac, which blamed an outside staffing company for failing to verify Perez’s age and ide
  
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• Girl, 11, among six young people taking on 32 nations in historic climate case

  27-09-2023 11:49
  
  Campaigners say European countries are breaching their human rights by failing to take adequate action to tackle global heatingAn 11-year-old girl from Portugal sat inside the grand chamber of the European court of human rights on Wednesday to face 86 lawyers from 32 nations in the world’s largest climate legal action.Mariana Agostinho was alongside her brother and sister, and her cousins, two rows back from 17 human rights judges. Continue reading...
  
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• SRA concerned that solicitors aiding false asylum claims

  27-09-2023 10:15 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Warning notice makes clear that solicitors must challenge clients trying to game the system.
  
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• SRA concerned solicitors abetting false asylum claims

  27-09-2023 10:15 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Warning notice makes clear that solicitors must challenge clients trying to game the system.
  
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• Trudi Warner reveals the dark secret of English courts: juries do have the right to follow their consciences | Richard Vogler

  27-09-2023 07:00
  
  The solicitor general taking action against a climate protester who held up a sign outside court raises a vital issue for criminal justiceGeorge Orwell noticed the tendency of repressive law to degenerate into farce, when truth becomes a lie and common sense is heresy. This is worth remembering now that the solicitor general, Michael Tomlinson KC, has concluded that it is right to take action against a climate campaigner, Trudi Warner, for holding up a sign outside a criminal court, simply procl
  
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