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• India accused of muzzling NGOs by blocking foreign funding

  24-11-2016 06:00
  
  Modi’s government revokes licences of 25 organisations over ‘anti-national activities’ as pool of foreign-funded bodies shrinks by almost half in two yearsAt least 25 Indian NGOs have lost licences to receive international funding because of their “anti-national” activities, while a further 11,319 have lost licences for failing to renew them, shrinking India’s pool of foreign-funded organisations to a little more than half the number it was two years ago.Accor
  
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• Mother of murdered schoolgirl Holly Newton calls for change in law

  31-10-2024 17:45
  
  Micala Trussler says it is wrong that her daughter’s murder will be categorised as knife crime and not domestic abuseThe mother of Holly Newton, who was stabbed to death by her jealous former boyfriend, has called for a change in the law on domestic abuse.Holly, 15, was murdered in Hexham, Northumberland, by Logan MacPhail after she ended their relationship. Continue reading...
  
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• ICC chief prosecutor facing staff calls for external inquiry into sexual misconduct claims

  31-10-2024 17:14
  
  Karim Khan is subject of allegations about his conduct towards a woman who previously reported directly to himThe chief prosecutor of the international criminal court in The Hague is facing calls from his own staff for an independent external investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against him.Karim Khan is the subject of allegations, details of which have emerged in recent weeks, about his conduct towards a woman who previously reported directly to him. Continue reading...
  
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• Scottish pilot of juryless rape trials dropped after backlash from lawyers

  31-10-2024 16:57
  
  Minister responsible for plan says she remains concerned about evidence juries may be influenced by rape myths The Scottish government has scrapped a pilot of juryless trials for rape cases, which aimed to tackle endemic low conviction rates for sexual assault prosecution, after a backlash from the highest levels of the legal profession.Campaigners against sexual violence expressed disappointment that the proposal, which would have made Scotland the first part of the UK to use specialist courts
  
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• Litigation funding regulation back in spotlight as CJC publishes review

  31-10-2024 16:26 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Hotly awaited interim report sets out questions for comprehensive review of the sector.
  
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• Legal issue on ‘negligent’ advice from NHS England arises in long Covid litigation

  31-10-2024 16:26 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Question of whether NHS trusts were entitled to rely on advice from third parties may need to be resolved, a judge has said.
  
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• Magistrate’s ‘discourteous’ comment about colleague leads to formal advice

  31-10-2024 15:51 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  ‘Audible comment…risked bringing the magistracy into disrepute’, Judicial Conduct Investigations Office rules.
  
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• Ombudsman seeks 10.2% budget rise next year

  31-10-2024 12:54 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Legal Ombudsman's Office says it is 'consistently resolving 25% more complaints than in the past'.
  
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• More judges to sit alone under employment tribunal reforms

  31-10-2024 12:25 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Practice direction means fewer employment tribunal cases will be heard by panels unless in the interests of justice to do so.
  
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• Quinn Emanuel suffers costs penalty over resistance to disclosure

  31-10-2024 11:01 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  While it was 'not unreasonable' for firm to resist in principle, it was ‘only fair’ that claimants should not pay all of its costs.
  
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• Saudi Arabia World Cup bid report accused of ‘whitewashing’ rights abuses

  31-10-2024 11:00
  
  Law firm AS&H Clifford Chance failed to include alleged abuse of migrant workers in assessment for Fifa 2034 bid, say rights groupsA report by the Saudi arm of a global law firm on Saudi Arabia’s 2034 Fifa World Cup bid has “whitewashed” the Gulf kingdom’s record of exploiting and suppressing the rights of migrant workers, rights groups have claimed.AS&H Clifford Chance was commissioned to independently assess the human rights implications of the bid, but the repo
  
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• Divorce applications wrongly approved after computer error, high court hears

  31-10-2024 09:34
  
  Online system incorrectly approved 79 divorces after submissions were sent a day before law allowsDozens of divorce applications were wrongly approved due to a computer error, the high court has heard.A hearing in London on Wednesday was told that 79 divorces were incorrectly approved after the applications were submitted a day before the law allows. An online system failed to detect that the submissions came a year after marriage, when the law only permits divorces from a year and a day. Contin
  
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• Cycling will be more dangerous due to council clampdowns, say campaigners

  31-10-2024 07:00
  
  Critics of cycling bans in city centres say they unfairly punish cyclists and push them on to congested roadsA growing number of councils are clamping down on bikes in city centres to tackle a rise in antisocial cycling, but campaigners say the rules will “only make cycling more dangerous” and unfairly punish people committed to active transport.Birmingham city council is the latest local authority considering a ban on cycling in pedestrian-only parts of the city centre, prompting a
  
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• Blur drummer says UK law on assisted dying is ‘psychopathic’

  31-10-2024 06:00
  
  Dave Rowntree speaks out about his ex-wife’s choice to take her life at Dignitas in SwitzerlandThe Blur drummer, Dave Rowntree, has attacked the UK law on assisted dying as “psychopathic” as he spoke out for the first time about the choice of his terminally ill ex-wife to take her own life at Dignitas in Switzerland.Rowntree said that the choice facing dying people who are facing extreme suffering was “brutal” and the criminalisation of assisted dying made him &ldqu
  
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• Palestinian student stripped of UK visa after Gaza remarks wins human rights appeal

  30-10-2024 18:50
  
  Home Office failed to show presence of Dana Abu Qamar ‘not conducive to public good’, according to tribunal rulingA Palestinian student who was stripped of her student visa after remarks she made about the Israel-Gaza war has won a human rights appeal against the Home Office’s decision.The Home Office failed to demonstrate that the presence of Dana Abu Qamar, 20, was “not conducive to public good” after the law student’s visa was revoked in December 2023, acco
  
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• Budget ’24: Justice spending to rise by £1.9bn

  30-10-2024 16:23 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  MoJ budget to rise 5.6% in real terms each year from 2024 to 2026 - but chancellor is silent on more cash for legal aid.
  
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• Southport attack: PM warns Badenoch and Jenrick against undermining police

  30-10-2024 15:37
  Keir Starmer’s appeal at PMQs follows Tory leadership candidates questioning police handling of investigationKeir Starmer has warned the two Conservative leadership candidates, Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch, against undermining police efforts in the investigation into the Southport attack.Speaking at prime minister’s questions, Starmer said it was important to allow police and prosecutors to “do their difficult job” and that all MPs had a choice to make to “eithe
  
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• Solicitor sues former client over negative Google reviews

  30-10-2024 12:15 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Former client ‘categorically’ denies writing the reviews which lawyer claims were written to ‘put people off’ instructing her firm.
  
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• New rules in enforcement released as research finds 6% of visits breach standards

  30-10-2024 12:06 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Noticeable area in which the standards were least commonly met was acknowledging obvious vulnerability, researchers found.
  
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• Debt collection overhauled as research finds 6% of visits breach standards

  30-10-2024 12:06 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Noticeable area in which the standards were least commonly met was acknowledging obvious vulnerability, researchers found.
  
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• Data shows 1 in 4 people in the UK have a police record

  30-10-2024 11:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Newly released Ministry of Justice data prompts calls for fairer system of checks for employment.
  
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• Data shows 1 in 4 people in the UK has a police record

  30-10-2024 11:20 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Newly released Ministry of Justice data prompts calls for fairer system of checks for employment.
  
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• Budget 24: What solicitors should look out for

  30-10-2024 11:11 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Chancellor to announce one-year settlement for government departments. Will the MoJ continue to be squeezed?
  
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• Lords committee to question MoJ on court interpreting contracts

  30-10-2024 07:15 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Peers expected to ask about service delivery, data, quality assurance and complaints process.
  
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• The killing of Natalie Shotter: what the death of a beloved mother and daughter reveals about rape

  30-10-2024 06:00
  
  She was a creative and talented NHS worker, who was attacked while unconscious and later found dead. Her case led to a landmark conviction that will hopefully help other womenDr Cas Shotter Weetman was steeling herself to face the man who killed her daughter. “All the fibres of your body are on high alert. The fight-or-flight instinct kicks in. Sometimes he looked at me for a good few seconds but I was determined to stare him out.”In the dock at the Old Bailey, Mohamed Iidow appeared
  
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• Online legal advice service dropped by challenger bank after SRA opens probe

  30-10-2024 01:05 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Zempler Bank confirms that the LawBite service is no longer available to its customers.
  
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• Axiom Ince: What the independent review recommends

  29-10-2024 16:44 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Carson McDowell review into regulatory events leading up to SRA’s intervention into Axiom Ince culminates with four pages of recommendations.
  
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• SC dismisses claim that police were liable for 'interference' before fatal crash

  29-10-2024 16:21 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Widow of a driver who died in a Buckinghamshire road accident said the police had discouraged a stranded motorist from warning other drivers.
  
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• ‘Make Britain vaguely civilised again’? Sounds great – but not the way this Tory MP would do it, thanks | Anne Perkins

  29-10-2024 16:00
  Neil O’Brien’s simplistic plan isn’t really about antisocial behaviour. It’s a litany of rightwing gripes aimed at human rightsSome years ago, the Guardian introduced a feature, Dining across the divide, to show that it was still possible to disagree in a constructive manner. The idea was born at a time when it seemed politics was so polarised nothing could ever grow again on the ground between. Happily, it turns out there’s an appetite for common-ground stuff, illu
  
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• Axiom Ince report: What the SRA knew - and what it failed to do

  29-10-2024 15:40 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  In its response, the SRA seizes on one sentence of praise in an 11-page summary. The rest details a catalogue of failures.
  
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