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FOCUS OF THE DAY: Human rights should not be seen as a specialist area of law but as an integral part of every lawyer’s practice, the chair of the Centre for Human Rights of the American Bar Association has said. Full story - Lawyers Weekly
FOCUS OF THE DAY: Human rights should not be seen as a specialist area of law but as an integral part of every lawyer’s practice, the chair of the Centre for Human Rights of the American Bar Association has said. Full story - Lawyers Weekly
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