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• Clarence Thomas failed to fully repay $267,000 loan for luxury RV, inquiry finds

  25-10-2023 22:34
  
  Loan to conservative justice from businessman Anthony Welters – which tax expert says ‘made no logical sense’ – was forgiven in 2008The US supreme court justice Clarence Thomas failed to repay much – or possibly all – of a “sweetheart deal” to borrow more than $267,000 to buy a luxury motor home, a Senate committee found.The existence of the $267,230 loan, made by the businessman Anthony Welters in 1999 and forgiven in 2008, was first reported by t
  
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• Trump attorney paints Michael Cohen as serial liar in second day of testimony

  25-10-2023 18:03
  
  Cohen sparred with Trump lawyer Alina Habba and said former president told him to inflate assetsDonald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen continued giving evidence at his fraud trial on Wednesday in another combative day in which the disgraced lawyer alleged the former president instructed him and other executives to inflate his apparent fortune.In an often theatrical performance, Trump’s attorney Alina Habba painted Cohen as a serial liar and a perjurer who was angry to have been sp
  
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• Michael Cohen continues testimony after combative first day

  25-10-2023 18:03
  
  Cohen sparred with Trump lawyer Alina Habba and said former president told him to inflate assetsDonald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen continued giving evidence at his fraud trial on Wednesday in another combative day in which the disgraced lawyer alleged the former president instructed him and other executives to inflate his apparent fortune.In an often theatrical performance, Trump’s attorney Alina Habba painted Cohen as a serial liar and a perjurer who was angry to have been sp
  
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• Sir Nicholas Stadlen obituary

  25-10-2023 17:53
  
  High court judge and stellar QC who delivered the longest speech in British legal history – and made a feted documentary in later lifeNicholas Stadlen, who has died of mesothelioma aged 73, rose to the pinnacle of his profession as a commercial lawyer and high court judge before retiring early from the bench in 2013. Then he opened a new chapter by interviewing five survivors from among Nelson Mandela’s co-defendants and legal team at the Rivonia trial of 1963-64 for a documentary fi
  
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• Barrister fees for pre-recorded cross-examination to rise 49%

  25-10-2023 17:53 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Justice secretary Alex Chalk says increase to £1,000 will help more sexual violence victims testify earlier, away from the 'full glare of a courtroom'.
  
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• ACLU sides with Trump against gag order given in federal criminal case

  25-10-2023 17:30
  
  Liberal human rights group says order given by federal judge is overly broad and deprives Trump of his free speech rights The American Civil Liberties Union free speech watchdog has sided with Donald Trump against a gag order that he was given in the federal criminal case over US election interference, saying the order violates the first amendment.The liberal human rights group, a bastion of the anti-Trump resistance in recent years, is a strange bedfellow for the Republican former president, th
  
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• Michael Cohen to continue testimony after combative first day

  25-10-2023 14:00
  
  Cohen sparred with Trump lawyer Alina Habba and said former president told him to inflate assetsDonald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen will continue giving evidence at his fraud trial today after a combative day in which the disgraced lawyer alleged the former president instructed him and other executives to inflate his apparent fortune.On Tuesday, Cohen described how Trump would select an “arbitrary” number – $6bn, rather than $4.5bn, for example – and instruct
  
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• My Blonde GF: a disturbing story of deepfake pornography

  25-10-2023 12:53
  
  Helen’s world is turned upside down when she discovers that her face has been digitally edited on to images of women in sexually explicit and often violent situations.Helen shares the impact this deepfake pornography has had on her life and challenges a culture that treats women’s appearance and image as public property while the perpetrators remain anonymous.    Deepfake pornography is an increasingly common form of image-based sexual abuse and in
  
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• Former CEO who used racist word at IPO dinner did not understand meaning, tribunal hears

  25-10-2023 12:37 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Former chief executive of Rosenblatt tells employment tribunal that she misunderstood intervention by firm’s chairman.
  
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• Mediation 'in free fall' owing to lack of legal aid

  25-10-2023 12:23 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society says the government’s ambition of encouraging mediation has been fundamentally undermined by its own decision to cut funding for early legal advice.
  
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• Majority of public think victim should influence sentences

  25-10-2023 12:03 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Report into the public opinion and understanding of sentencing warns the government against a 'reactive' approach to sentencing policy.
  
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• Japan court rules mandatory sterilisation of people officially changing gender unconstitutional

  25-10-2023 09:14
  
  Judges reject requirement for trans people to remove reproductive organs for state-recognised gender changeJapan’s top court has ruled that a legal clause requiring people to undergo sterilisation surgery if they want to legally change their gender is unconstitutional.Several international organisations including the European court of human rights, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and UN had said the requirement was discriminatory and infringed on human rights. Con
  
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• Trump and his ex-fixer Michael Cohen have ‘heck of a reunion’ in court

  25-10-2023 00:01
  
  Cohen – the New York fraud trial’s first star witness – outlines simple scheme designed to fool people about the size of Trump’s fortuneSilence filled the courtroom in the fraud trial of Donald Trump on Tuesday in anticipation of the arrival of the case’s first star witness. Trump, at his usual place at the front of the courtroom surrounded by his lawyers, didn’t turn to look back at his former employee, Michael Cohen, entered to take the stand.After an erupti
  
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