21th April - LAW NEWS HEADLINES

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• BAHRAIN: Government has failed to address human rights violations: JURIST - Paper Chase: http://t.co/QtZ0nQ9q Apr 21, 2012
• Human rights virtually regained - Jerusalem Post http://t.co/LwnS8fnP Apr 21, 2012
• BURMA: Myanmar activists say go slow on easing sanctions http://t.co/rJp43Jl5 Apr 21, 2012
• SUDAN: The Human Rights Crisis Behind the Political Spat http://t.co/mxthkRST Apr 21, 2012
• US: The Death Spiral of America's Big Law Firms http://t.co/JculuHNV Apr 21, 2012
• KENYA: Rangers shoot dead five suspected poachers http://t.co/xXnT3k17 Apr 21, 2012
• Police clear Motherwell's Steve Jennings over alleged betting irregularities involving midfielder http://t.co/76udCobO  - Scotland Apr 21, 2012
• Knife killing breakthrough as solicitor general agrees to meet victim's family http://t.co/HriCv2jc - Scotland Apr 21, 2012
• US: Justice for helpless puppy burnt ALIVE by 18-year-old thug as his friends watched on http://t.co/ZkUt6j6w Apr 21, 2012
• George Zimmerman: Social justice activist with a gun? - Christian Scientce Monitor http://t.co/1Prn6DdY Apr 21, 2012
• ARMENIA: Freedom House Urges Armenian Government to Investigate April 16 "Mob Attack" on Vanadzor Helsinki Office http://t.co/L8YVwS8h Apr 21, 2012
• UN human rights office calls on BELARUS to free opposition leaders http://t.co/gp8LCibu Apr 21, 2012
• "Bradford's retiring judge is a hard act to follow" http://t.co/iqY6Bnut Apr 21, 2012
• IRELAND: EUR 35,000 damages for man struck by falling pub door http://t.co/YRB4qmho Apr 21, 2012
• IRELAND: Publisher eats humble pie over Limerick jibes http://t.co/rW6M0aNt Apr 21, 2012
• Megaupload Copyright Case Could Hinge On Legal Technicality: http://t.co/Yo2QzP3N Apr 21, 2012
• INDIA: Legal Profession Must Reclaim Hallowed Ground that IT Occupied during our Freedom Struggle http://t.co/BymApR9O Apr 21, 2012
• London 2012 Olympics: BOA faces £200,000 legal bill if Dwain Chambers and David Millar are cleared to compete - http://t.co/uAqpAHIj Apr 21, 2012
• Britney Spears lawyers demand legal fees from singer's former manager Sam Lutfi http://t.co/yTKlAoQX Apr 21, 2012
• BAHRAIN: Protester found dead on eve of grand prix http://t.co/LGpXYwr6 Apr 21, 2012
• Foreign national prisoners are the new pariahs | http://t.co/YQ7F7Uab Apr 21, 2012
• Volvo technology transfer a lifeline for Geely http://t.co/9IblCWTO Apr 21, 2012
• BlackBerry maker hires law firm for restructuring http://t.co/oPRbXi4m Apr 21, 2012
• Greenberg says it discussed hiring Dewey lawyers http://t.co/AoDblQIz Apr 21, 2012
• US: Leader of 'radical' US nuns rejects Vatican criticism http://t.co/rWi5Db8g Apr 21, 2012
• Gay marriage 'nothing to fear', say senior Anglicans http://t.co/SxyBPl60 Apr 21, 2012
• US website covering China's Bo Xilai scandal hacked http://t.co/xxuJzTQA Apr 21, 2012
• A Wistful Look at Orthodox Easter in Ramallah: by Raja Shehadeh, a lawyer and writer living in Ramallah http://t.co/KaMngeC7 Apr 21, 2012
• SPAIN Stings ARGENTINA Over Oil Company Nationalization http://t.co/c6bg41gf Apr 21, 2012
• SOUTH AFRICA: Sexual Violence in South Africa Is an Enduring Legacy of Apartheid: http://t.co/FXr0iwQ8 Apr 21, 2012
• US: Deporting Parents Hurts Kids http://t.co/qgQoceB1 Apr 21, 2012
• Brothers face US court over stock-picking robot scam - http://t.co/79DTuIIk Apr 21, 2012
• Christianity does not sit in opposition to progressive equality legislation http://t.co/vfMotHtA Apr 21, 2012
• MOROCCO: Activists look to repeal law that encourages rapists to marry victims | http://t.co/i8SKhJa5 Apr 21, 2012
• BlackBerry maker hires law firm for restructuring http://t.co/TGF5EP62 Apr 21, 2012
• Cambridge University Press running a sale on Law books http://t.co/cByxLdY9  Apr 21, 2012
• CHINA: top court spares woman death penalty in fraud case http://t.co/QsoZ96Kl Apr 21, 2012
• TECH LAW: YouTube must filter content, rules German court http://t.co/zOkJvxjy Apr 21, 2012
• Christian radio ad banned by order of a Cabinet minister: http://t.co/KLUZoeTd Apr 21, 2012
• CHINA: High court spares tycoon's life in loan case http://t.co/WJsvCPgI Apr 21, 2012
• Will Abu Qatada be released? http://t.co/S6DD7QZM Apr 21, 2012
• TheLawMap Wig is out! http://t.co/VTrW0Mek ▸  Apr 21, 2012
• Biting back: Mr Loophole (Nick Freeman) makes his case http://t.co/0MDjpQcc Apr 21, 2012
• European court reform was agreed before £500,000 summit http://t.co/AHq3aLNN Apr 21, 2012
• AUS: Australia House denies role in Assange lawyer travel drama: http://t.co/VhBdcO0T Apr 21, 2012
• CANADA: Minority lawyers in Canada push for a less white bench http://t.co/QhsmREQC Apr 21, 2012
• AUS: Julian Assange lawyer questions Australian govt http://t.co/ZOg9TEKj Apr 21, 2012
• Lawyer: News Corp. suits nearly double to 100+ http://t.co/FJkOgMhC Apr 21, 2012
• US: A Prominent Bankruptcy Lawyer Now Ministers to His Firm: http://t.co/YDxVoseV Apr 21, 2012
• US: Trial begins for man accused in New York subway terror plot http://t.co/zBKro2w6 Apr 21, 2012
• RWANDA: Genocide trial to be held in Rwanda for first time http://t.co/0zlpxGDy Apr 21, 2012
• NORWAY: Breivik tells trial he is 'normally a very nice person' http://t.co/MsyyPQi3 Apr 21, 2012
• TECH LAW: Oracle trial - Google engineer says key licensing email not about licence http://t.co/rjFJ8r7p Apr 21, 2012
• ITALY: Berlusconi sex trial: Parties 'were burlesque games' http://t.co/WeBBRaoY Apr 21, 2012
• CHINA: Torture claims emerge in China's Bo Xilai scandal http://t.co/6RA9Xuzb Apr 21, 2012
• NORWAY: No escape from Breivik trial http://t.co/C1Bk5U7c Apr 21, 2012
• Adis Medunjanin al-Qaeda terror trial told of UK links http://t.co/RdCs3pI0 Apr 21, 2012
• US: Merck fined $322 million for illegal off-label Vioxx promotion: http://t.co/zaSQ5BAJ Apr 21, 2012
• US: The Top Five Special Interest Groups Lobbying To Keep Marijuana Illegal http://t.co/qcZb8clb Apr 21, 2012
• Man given ASBO for persistant illegal motorbike riding http://t.co/j01fDr47 Apr 21, 2012
• INDIA: Illegal mines may get away with meager fines? http://t.co/uIlOLKC8 Apr 21, 2012
• US: Anastacio Hernandez Rojas: Video 'reveals moment 12 border guards tasered and beat to death Mexican migrant http://t.co/19AUxyZV Apr 21, 2012
• US: Rocker Ted Nugent agrees to plead guilty in federal case involving illegal bear kill in Alaska http://t.co/aCNtfPN8 Apr 21, 2012
• US charges British twins over $1.2m 'stock robot' fraud http://t.co/Y1nMxGJ0 Apr 21, 2012
• Men held at Heathrow on terror charge - http://t.co/answSWWj Apr 21, 2012
• Four firemen died 'for no good reason' - http://t.co/QzOFR3Ng Apr 21, 2012
• Family fear cover-up over MI6 spy whose body was found in bag http://t.co/keh2EpqH Apr 21, 2012
• Wales footballer is jailed for raping teenager 'too drunk to consent' http://t.co/H7gJ9tPZ Apr 21, 2012
• Tom Watson: News International left my life in tatters. But in the end their abuse gave me freedom http://t.co/KeE4BqOF Apr 21, 2012
• Blair aide among 46 new Murdoch hacking claims - http://t.co/VNTopAvq Apr 21, 2012
• CANADA: Penis removal not needed for man to become woman: Ontario tribunal http://t.co/Qw1ISxwf Apr 21, 2012
• INDIA: Tribunal cancels environmental clearance to Jindal Steel's Chhattisgarh project http://t.co/6kxjkkbh Apr 21, 2012
• CANADA: Government was right not to rush Omar Khadr home http://t.co/Y25PpQXH Apr 21, 2012
• INDIA: Centre says Kerala has no right to try Italians http://t.co/BCbVUxEE Apr 21, 2012
• MEXICO: Climate-change law passed http://t.co/DcvRFTS1  Apr 21, 2012
• US: Eased IPO laws prompt memories of dot-com bubble http://t.co/FJvlffkh Apr 21, 2012
• US: Planned Parenthood suspends nonsurgical abortions in Wis. to avoid confusion over new law http://t.co/ydB8A2f6 Apr 21, 2012
• Terrorists threaten to attack UK if Qatada is deported - http://t.co/o21oNy5h Apr 21, 2012
• Microchips for puppies and dogs being sold - http://t.co/0hKGipS8 Apr 21, 2012
• What is the real legacy of colonialism? http://t.co/iZyOYPfz Apr 21, 2012
• Support to victims of crime threatened : Guardian Letters http://t.co/aA0qk4nB Apr 21, 2012
• The statute book of law is full of dead wood, and it's about to get a pruning http://t.co/dPKQSQJI Apr 21, 2012
• Man jailed for photographing defendants in Truro court http://t.co/oMIVvp3p Apr 21, 2012
• Dual G4S and Lincolnshire Police logos on uniforms http://t.co/0ND1pGOV Apr 21, 2012
• Killers of Sofyen Belamouadden at Victoria Station detained http://t.co/U6tfcCNJ Apr 21, 2012
• Sniffer dog failed to find plastic explosive in Aintree test http://t.co/MrHfaka1 Apr 21, 2012
• Cunard cruise ship worker Paul Trotter admits abusing children http://t.co/VichsTXE Apr 21, 2012
• High Court rules ex-wife of bankrupt man to keep Ballykelly house http://t.co/McYNffb1  Apr 21, 2012
• Damages for Italian holiday home fraud victims http://t.co/DJXbalam  Apr 21, 2012
• Paedophile former priest pleads guilty to past offences http://t.co/pn3ZFQ9t  Apr 21, 2012
• Ramunas Balseris fails to have murder conviction overturned http://t.co/a1r6FvJO  Apr 21, 2012
• Man denies trying to murder wife's lover in Dungannon http://t.co/SE0gCbjI  Apr 21, 2012
• Former bank worker Stephen Glenn jailed for £20K theft http://t.co/piSgNQO5  Apr 21, 2012
• Warrenpoint couple admit Alzheimer's widow £100K con http://t.co/I8fo9hpO  Apr 21, 2012
• Priest in 'indecent images' row in Pomeroy exonerated http://t.co/WpVd64In Apr 21, 2012
• Man admits to Blairgowrie car smashing spree http://t.co/XzpA529f  Apr 21, 2012
• Police had '99 suspects' over murder of Kevin 'Gerbil' Carroll http://t.co/zjiYc3ss  Apr 21, 2012
• Miller planning new Rangers bid http://t.co/zaivNvZt  Apr 21, 2012
• Pub landlords back minimum alcohol price, says Alcohol Concern Cymru study http://t.co/3SfPoIU3  Apr 21, 2012
• National Secular Society: Charity should pay for NHS religious and spiritual care http://t.co/IGDSJ0C9  Apr 21, 2012
• Ed Miliband backs Peter Hain in legal row over memoirs http://t.co/Nra5lJqa  Apr 21, 2012
• North Wales crime up, but down in south, Gwent and Dyfed-Powys http://t.co/53zi4YXR  Apr 21, 2012
• Breast surgeons back withdrawal of 'lunchtime boob job' jab http://t.co/kSDoyWbH Apr 21, 2012
• ITALY: Berlusconi sex trial: Parties 'were burlesque games' http://t.co/WeBBRaoY Apr 21, 2012
• US: Florida judge sets George Zimmerman bail at $150,000 http://t.co/xa764b48 Apr 21, 2012
• Killer mum Rachel James 'set herself on fire' on train http://t.co/8ok1D8xQ Apr 21, 2012
• NORWAY: Anders Breivik describes Norway island massacre http://t.co/mwZZ72qj Apr 21, 2012