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• Assisted dying bill is safer than any other in the world | Letters

  01-12-2025 18:55
  Dr Jacky Davis and Stephen Sedley respond to letters that supported the Lords’ scrutiny of the billDr Lucy Thomas raises some interesting points in her defence of the House of Lords’ behaviour on assisted dying (Letters, 26 November). But it is a stretch to suggest that the 1,000 amendments that peers have tabled to the bill represent effective independent scrutiny.What possible justification can there be for requiring every dying person – including a 90-year-old in their
  
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• Jorja Smith’s label requests share of royalties from ‘AI-cloned’ TikTok viral song

  01-12-2025 18:29
  Uncredited vocals on song I Run by British dance act Haven alleged to infringe copyright as impersonation of SmithJorja Smith’s record label has called for a share of the royalties from a TikTok-viral song that it claims used an AI-cloned version of the British singer’s voice.The song I Run, by British dance act Haven, went viral in October and was due to chart in the UK and the US after reaching No 11 on the US Spotify chart and No 25 on the platform’s global chart. Continue r
  
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• Staff ‘devastated’ as north east firm announces sudden closure

  01-12-2025 16:17 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  New employers being sought for Samuel Phillips trainees and apprentices left without a firm.
  
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• Criminal legal aid fees to rise, government confirms

  01-12-2025 12:50 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  First increases will take effect this month, but others will have to wait until the Legal Aid Agency sorts out its troubled IT systems.
  
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• Council lawyers set up 'safe space' for monitoring officers

  01-12-2025 11:59 via lawgazette.co.uk
  Lawyers in Local Government unveils new support body at governance conference.
  
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• Judge throws out ex-wife’s claim 20 years after divorce

  01-12-2025 09:30 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Woman who pursued £10m financial remedies claim told that her ex-husband was not ‘the insurer of last resort’.
  
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• In depth: Law Society of Scotland under renewed pressure to sanction ABSs

  01-12-2025 09:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  A new campaign group is aiming to ‘unlock long-blocked reforms’ and push the Law Society of Scotland to finally change course on ABSs and get ‘in step with the rest of Great Britain’.
  
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• In depth: 15 years after Holyrood sanctioned ABSs, will the Law Society finally bend?

  01-12-2025 09:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  A new campaign group aims to ‘unlock long-blocked reforms’ and push the Law Society of Scotland to finally change course on alternative business structures.
  
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• Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot

  01-12-2025 09:00
  The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courtsHow do you reckon our political system works? Perhaps something like this. We elect MPs. They vote on bills. If a majority is achieved, the bills becomes law. The law is upheld by the courts. End of story. Well, that’s how it used to work. No longer.Today, foreign corporations, or the oligarchs who own them, can sue governments for the laws they pass,
  
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• Firm replaces application forms with an introductory AI interview

  01-12-2025 01:58 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Graduate candidates will chat to AI-powered tool about their background, experience and motivation.
  
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• 'Avoidable disputes' to blame for overloaded tribunals - expert report

  01-12-2025 01:09 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Poor government decision-making puts ‘systemic strain on tribunals, charities and public services’, administrative justice group reports.
  
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• Special forces chief tried to cover up concerns about SAS conduct in Afghanistan, inquiry told

  01-12-2025 01:01
  Whistleblower says chain of command failed to stop extrajudicial shootings, including of children, after alarm was raisedThe former director of UK special forces and other senior military officers tried to cover up concerns that SAS units were carrying out unlawful killings in Afghanistan, an inquiry has heard.A senior special forces whistleblower said the chain of command failed to stop extrajudicial shootings, including of two small children, after the alarm was first raised in early 2011. Tha
  
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• Ethics and Integrity Commission

  01-12-2025 01:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
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