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Working with DNA evidence
It is important for defence solicitors to understand DNA evidence better and routinely to press for greater disclosure, say Mark Fenhalls and Brian Costello On 20 December 2007 the case against Sean Hoey (R v Hoey [2007] NICC 49 – the Omagh bombing case) failed. Mr Justice Weir was critical ...
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The high rollers
If as a gambling lawyer you are not phenomenally busy at the moment, then there is something wrong, says Julian Harris, partner at niche City gambling and leisure law firm Harris Hagan. Earlier this month, the government sprung a surprise by choosing Manchester as the host of Britain’s ...
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NewsAssociation for the Study of Animal Behaviour
ASAB exists to further the understanding of animal behaviour at all educational levels, and to promote research that improves animal welfare and conservation.
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Convention on Modern Liberty debate
The need for a British human rights act was one of the few issues of contention to surface at the nationwide Convention on Modern Liberty held last Saturday, writes Michael Cross. Dominic Grieve QC MP (pictured), shadow attorney general, said a future Conservative government would introduce such an act, which ...
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A swift and sure way to computer disaster
Here we go again. Just two years after a new government promised to break with Labour’s record of IT-based policy fiascoes, along comes a high-profile public policy reform which looks set to go down the same dismal road. The success of the revolution set out in the Swift and Sure ...
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Cry freedom of information
The eyes of the news media have been elsewhere, but the House of Commons justice committee has just restated an important constitutional principle: freedom of information is a good thing. A long-awaited post-legislative review of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 concludes: ‘We do not believe that there has been ...
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Contact details
Why are addresses and telephone numbers so frequently omitted from email communications (despite the plethora of disclaimers etc attached)? Why in the most elaborate websites is ‘contact us’ the hardest or last thing to find? Why is there a tendency on the part, usually of the most prestigious firms, to ...
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Cashflow outlook worsening, new LMS quarterly survey shows
Cashflow problems are worsening for law firms, according to results from the Law Society’s Law Management Section (LMS) financial benchmarking quarterly. The survey, the first results of which are to be published tomorrow, found that 40% of firms were experiencing more cashflow pressures than in the previous quarter. Firms' responses ...
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Maggie Maggie Maggie! In in in!
The last time I was in the same room as Margaret Thatcher, several hundred Japanese businessmen were there, too. It was Tokyo, September 1989, the high noon of Japan's economic power. World leaders were passing through every week to pay homage to the yen, but prime minister Thatcher was different. ...
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Bring out your dead
If 200 people in England and Wales dropped dead one week from a mysterious unknown cause, you’d think our supposedly nanny state would learn about it right away.
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Cold called
To be honest, I knew I was asking for trouble by picking up the phone at teatime. The only calls that come through on that particular landline are from investment advisers or chaps asking for my passwords so they can fix my IT. Sure enough, when I picked up the ...
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Chilling effect
As a media legal scandal, it didn’t amount to much: no superinjunctions, celebrities or retired police horses. But my one (so far - touch wood) experience of being sued for defamation as a journalist illustrates an important shortcoming of the government’s current proposals for libel reform.
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Fear and loathing in libel reform
To put it mildly, this is not a good time for politicians to be seen doing favours for media proprietors. Yet this is inevitably how the upcoming debate on libel reform - expected to be kicked off with a bill in the Queen’s speech in May - is going to ...
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Opportunities in Colombia
Colombia: isn’t it a bit dicey? Lawyers in Latin America’s fourth-largest economy and deepest-rooted democracy could be forgiven for showing irritation at the inevitable question. Invariably, the reply is ‘things have changed’.
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People’s peers
Anyone for ping-pong? Yes, the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders bill is back in the Lords this week, for the upper house to pick over its wounded amendments following their savaging last week in the Commons. In the end, of course, the Commons will get its way. As ...
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Halabja remembered
Under a glass case in the Halabja memorial museum is a brown, three-strand hemp rope, the kind a lorry driver might use for tying down loads. A black label bears the date 25 January 2010. I had a pretty good idea of the significance, but I asked the curator anyway: ...