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• Birmingham firm wins legal aid appeal over retrial

  24-04-2025 17:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Interval between two trials and change of judge and defence team meant it was ‘quite unrealistic’ not to treat them as separate trials.
  
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• Google broke the law. It’s time to break up the company | Courtney C Radsch

  24-04-2025 14:00
  Two recent US cases have found the search giant is functioning as an illegal monopoly. This should be a turning pointIn less than a year, US courts have ruled that the world’s most powerful tech company broke the law – twice.In August, a federal judge in Washington ruled that Google illegally maintained its search monopoly by locking up defaults on browsers and devices. In April, a federal judge in Virginia found that Google illegally monopolized the digital advertising market, manip
  
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• Google broke the law. It’s time to break up the company

  24-04-2025 14:00
  Two recent US cases have found the search giant is functioning as an illegal monopoly. This should be a turning pointIn less than a year, US courts have ruled that the world’s most powerful tech company broke the law – twice.In August, a federal judge in Washington ruled that Google illegally maintained its search monopoly by locking up defaults on browsers and devices. In April, a federal judge in Virginia found that Google illegally monopolized the digital advertising market, manip
  
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• Trump rages at 'sick' and 'deranged' judge in law firm case

  24-04-2025 12:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  District Judge Beryl Howell placed a temporary block on president's executive order against Perkins Coie
  
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• Trump makes explosive attack on ‘pathologically bad’ US judge

  24-04-2025 12:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  US president unhappy with judge ruling in his legal case against law firm.
  
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• Serious Fraud Office to let firms avoid prosecution if they flag up suspected crime

  24-04-2025 12:04
  
  UK anti-financial crime agency’s change in guidance hopes to induce more firms to step forward and report suspected wrongdoingThe Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has said it is prepared to let companies avoid prosecution if they self-report suspected financial crime and cooperate with investigators, in an important change to its previous guidance.The SFO, which investigates complex financial crimes, fraud and corruption, said companies that flag potential breaches would be offered the chance to
  
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• Firm must pay former client’s costs over final bill

  24-04-2025 11:55 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Senior costs judge says Chesterfield-based practice could not complain about former client commencing Part 8 proceedings.
  
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• SFO guidance offers self-reporters a route to deferred prosecutions

  24-04-2025 11:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  In a first for the agency, the guidance states what businesses can expect if they self-report suspected wrongdoing.
  
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• ‘Why do they dislike me so much?’: the trials, trolls and triumphs of Britain’s most divisive barrister

  24-04-2025 11:00
  
  She has been called a ‘brave disruptor’ by campaigners and ‘rabid’ by internet critics. But for Charlotte Proudman, only one opinion matters: that of the women and children she defends in the family courtsAt lunchtime, when she is working at her barristers’ chambers in central London, Charlotte Proudman, a specialist in family law, faces a confronting choice. Should she nip around the corner to Pret a Manger or join her colleagues at the Middle Temple dining hall? I
  
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• Firm employee paid estate monies into his own company

  24-04-2025 10:43 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Private client executive faked a note from beneficiary supposedly approving transfers.
  
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• Ofcom announces new rules for tech firms to keep children safe online

  24-04-2025 09:02
  
  Companies will be legally required to block children’s access to harmful content under UK’s Online Safety Act or face large finesUK politics live – latest updatesSocial media and other internet platforms will be legally required to block children’s access to harmful content from July or face large fines, Ofcom has announced.Tech firms will have to apply the measures by 25 July or risk fines – and in extreme cases being shut down – under the UK’s Online S
  
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• He fought to stop the forest being felled. The price was 30 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit

  24-04-2025 09:00
  
  The UN has called the detention of Pablo López Alavez ‘arbitrary’, while human rights organisations say his sentence is part of a systematic and alarming pattern of criminalisation of Mexico’s environmental activistsThe meeting room in the prison of Villa de Etla, a town in Oaxaca, Mexico, doubles as a classroom with school desks and a small library. The walls feature motivational phrases such as “First things first”, “Live and let live” and &ldqu
  
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• A dozen US states sue to stop Trump’s ‘reckless and insane’ tariff policy

  24-04-2025 01:10
  
  Lawsuit rebukes claim that president can arbitrarily impose tariffs based on act intended for emergenciesA dozen states sued the Trump administration in the US court of international trade in New York on Wednesday to stop its tariff policy, saying it is unlawful and has brought chaos to the American economy.The lawsuit said the policy put in place by Donald Trump has been subject to his “whims rather than the sound exercise of lawful authority”. Continue reading...
  
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