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Mining firm sues campaign group over personal data

16 Dec 2013: BSGR action alleges that Global Witness has refused to comply with a decision of the UK information commissioner
Chile 2hr 43min ago

Bachelet pledges radical constitutional reforms after winning Chilean election

16 Dec 2013: President-elect promises help with university fees, tax reforms to cut inequality and ending junta-era polling system stifling change
Italy 3hr 13min ago

Italian prosecutors investigate claims of restaurants serving dolphin

16 Dec 2013: A journalist secretly filmed a meal in the city of Civitavecchia including a salad dressed with flakes of dried dolphin
UK supreme court 3hr 40min ago

UK supreme court wins independence from government … in its url

16 Dec 2013: Joshua Rozenberg: Lord Hope is finally proved right as the UK supreme court changes web address
Assisted dying 6hr 14min ago

Right-to-die claims to be heard in supreme court

16 Dec 2013: Lawyers for right-to-die campaigners will argue medical staff should be able to help those physically unable to end their lives
April Jones 6hr 14min ago

April Jones's family express dismay as Mark Bridger launches appeal

16 Dec 2013: Former abattoir worker wants to challenge full-life term for murder of five-year-old girl
Greenslade 7hr 57min ago

Fifa's Sepp Blatter goes to court to ban book of cartoons

16 Dec 2013:
He obtains injunction in Switzerland against Danish cartoonist
UK criminal justice 8hr 28min ago

Police to review rape case for which wrongly convicted man was jailed

16 Dec 2013: Victor Nealon, freed after 17 years in jail when DNA evidence pointed to another perpetrator, has called for justice for victim
Human trafficking 8hr 41min ago

Theresa May announces bill to crack down on modern slavery – video

16 Dec 2013: Video (1min 28sec)
Theresa May, the home secretary, says a new bill will be published on Monday proposing to give automatic life sentences to offenders who have previous convictions for serious sexual or violent offences
Human trafficking 8hr 54min ago

Slavery bill includes new legal duty to report potential trafficking victims

16 Dec 2013: Home Office says measure should help an extra 1,500 slavery victims a year in Britain
Greenslade 10hr 3min ago

Angelina Jolie may testify in News Corp phone hacking case

16 Dec 2013:
Actor could be witness in stunt double's legal action
Comment is free 10hr 21min ago

In a globalised world, there is no cure for slavery

16 Dec 2013: Simon Jenkins: First thoughts: Theresa May's modern slavery bill proposes tougher sentences for traffickers, but the line between voluntary migration and servitude is often vague
Human trafficking 11hr 28min ago

Modern slavery bill to be published

16 Dec 2013:
Automatic life sentences to be given to human traffickers who already have convictions for serious sexual or violent offences
UK news 19hr 12min ago

Wrongly jailed Victor Nealon spends first night as free man on streets

15 Dec 2013: The former postman who was wrongly imprisoned for nearly 17 years, spent his first night on the streets after being discharged
Prisons and probation 20hr 30min ago

'Epidemic of self-mutilation' in women's prisons in England and Wales

15 Dec 2013:
Oxford University study reveals women prisoners are four times more likely to self-harm than their male counterparts

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Committee says proposed legal aid cuts may breach human rights

Joshua Rozenberg: All-party committee tells justice secretary Chris Grayling that restrictions on legal aid would affect vulnerable groups
Marine's life sentence is fixed by law – but the minimum term is not so simple

Joshua Rozenberg: In setting Sergeant Blackman's minimum term for murdering a Taliban prisoner, what principles must the court consider?

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In a globalised world, there is no cure for slavery

Simon Jenkins: First thoughts: Theresa May's modern slavery bill proposes tougher sentences for traffickers, but the line between voluntary migration and servitude is often vague
The readers' editor on… the 'forcing' of a caesarean on a woman with mental health problems

Chris Elliott: Open door: However her medical condition is framed by the law, the mother has the right for her voice to be heard
Supporting the right to die always runs the risk of diminishing the right to live

Deborah Orr: Frances Inglis should not have been jailed for killing her brain-damaged son – but still, one person cannot decide whether or not another person's life is worth living

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Courage of Zimbabwe human rights lawyer captured in film

Rebecca Lowe: Filmmaker says Beatrice Mtetwa's use of the rule of law is 'her means of resistance against the regime'

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The essential cases every law student should know | Birju Kotecha

4 Dec 2013, 4:00 EST: Birju Kotecha: From the longest case in English legal history to Lord Denning's rulings, judicial decisions are a law student's bread and butter

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