15th January 2012

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• New law will send women to jail needlessly, peers warn - Crime - UK - The Independent http://t.co/4Azmadse Jan 15, 2012
• Lord Justice Leveson could look to Alastair Brett's plan for press regulation http://t.co/4bFWNBSt via @guardian Jan 15, 2012
• AFRICA: Addressing Climate Change as a Human Rights Issue http://t.co/IFgj1ein Jan 15, 2012
• NORTH KOREA: Human rights situation has worsened in North Korea after Kim's death: rights activist - The Nation http://t.co/4evDjWVV Jan 15, 2012
• The Week That Was: A Case for Positive Discrimination http://t.co/M1q5IpBA via @huffpostUK Jan 15, 2012
• Changes recommended by the Law Commission on Expert Evidence improve understanding of mark & impression evidence? http://t.co/HA5b5iQE Jan 15, 2012
• My father's release from prison is good. But there is still no reform in Burma | Wai Hnin Pwint Thon http://t.co/CAV894Jw via @guardian Jan 15, 2012
• Rupert Murdoch squares off with Obama over online piracy legislation http://t.co/PFaYWN7Z via @guardian Jan 15, 2012
• While Law Schools Dither Over Reform, the Legal Profession May be Passing Them By - US http://t.co/1dlY7Wwm Jan 15, 2012
• IRELAND: Irish homeowners now have legal right to shoot intruders | http://t.co/AawfhC4O Jan 15, 2012
• Tory big beasts savage Clarke over legal aid cuts - http://t.co/vihzhJUl Jan 15, 2012
• ISRAEL: Lawyer for accused concentration camp guard joins Israeli president's legal team http://t.co/lFaJmjtP Jan 15, 2012
• David Cameron agrees to Alex Salmond referendum meeting http://t.co/Y2IW3VcT Jan 15, 2012
• KUWAIT: Kuwait police abused transgender women http://t.co/GySWNdzd Jan 15, 2012
• Internet access is integral to human rights | http://t.co/ZwADcxiV via @AlMasryAlYoum_A Jan 15, 2012
• PHILIPPINES: Government agents arrest Jolo human-rights worker on bombing charges http://t.co/liH1hPs7 Jan 15, 2012
• PAKISTAN: Aitzaz sees no harm in writing to Swiss authorities: http://t.co/vFUL7IuK Jan 15, 2012
• Justice row over plan to end short jail terms - Northern Ireland http://t.co/5G6uJ76R Jan 15, 2012
• Richard O'Dwyer extradition: Ministers must fight inferior foreign justice http://t.co/jaIBKjvA Jan 15, 2012
• Thousands of children are needlessly being locked up in young offenders institutions http://t.co/5zGgOSTY Jan 15, 2012
• Scotland's top law officer is to meet the family of an Asian man murdered 13 years ago http://t.co/bpm0oF1B Jan 15, 2012
• SUNDAY LAW REVIEW, the weekly law news blog covering the week in law 8th-14th Jann. 2012 is now published - http://t.co/u0Q5Gifa Jan 15, 2012
• CHINA:Seven killed in China illegal mining accident - http://t.co/Muv6FEek Jan 15, 2012
• Police get tough on illegal motorcycling (Wiltshire) http://t.co/Gy3xNMHN Jan 15, 2012
• Council tackles illegal camps in Boston http://t.co/TqFZ9hLK Jan 15, 2012
• PAKISTAN: Crackdown on illegal organisations: http://t.co/QKg7BIOY Jan 15, 2012
• Eight officers resign over illegal searches of dozens of people using police files http://t.co/fOk1rsSd Jan 15, 2012
• IOC 'prepared' for illegal gambling threat, says Rogge http://t.co/uG6cYUPR #cnn Jan 15, 2012
• EGYPT: Trial delayed for Egypt tycoon for 'insulting religion' http://t.co/k4y1N3i7 Jan 15, 2012
• CANADA: Shafia trial - Chilling details of Crown’s case rivet court http://t.co/dR0E7Sug Jan 15, 2012
• PHILIPPINES: Chief Justice’s Impeachment Trial Divides Philippines: http://t.co/IMXmUgwq Jan 15, 2012
• Nortel trial to open old wounds http://t.co/Ni0pNkow via @fptechdesk Jan 15, 2012
• US: John Edwards heart surgery: Serious medical condition delays his $1m lovechild trial http://t.co/f8QBmjOC via @MailOnline Jan 15, 2012
• U.S. troops need better training on laws of war, experts say http://t.co/TcmA4mzJ Jan 15, 2012
• US: Our View: Sonogram law another example of courts asked to alter just law ABORTION LAW http://t.co/1x1uAXJD Jan 15, 2012
• West lawyer offers advice in breast implant surgery claims http://t.co/XcXMd23M Jan 15, 2012
• 'I'll sue Church of England if it bars me from being bishop,' says The Very Rev Jeffrey John, Dean of St Albans | http://t.co/iJBBXUSn Jan 15, 2012
• Irish lawyer struck off for 'disgraceful misconduct' (via @thejournal_ie) http://t.co/yIFoPOpJ Jan 15, 2012
• PAKISTAN: Judges acting as petitioners’ lawyer in NRO case: Asma: http://t.co/PERLRIyH Jan 15, 2012
• PHILIPPINES: Justice Corona to personally attend 1st day of impeachment trial via @gmanews http://t.co/7UNrrfnv Jan 15, 2012
• ISRAEL: Israel Faces Crisis Over Role of Ultra-Orthodox in Society: http://t.co/JakK3jlj Jan 15, 2012
• TheLawMap Wig is out! http://t.co/VTrW0Mek ▸ Top stories today via @garyslapper Jan 15, 2012
• GERMANY: German Court: ISPs Shouldn't Block Illegal Websites http://t.co/5D2qqw5L Jan 15, 2012
• WEEKLY LAW NEWS ROUND UP BLOG: Sunday Law Review: the week that was 8th – 14th Jan... http://t.co/MxcySn8e Jan 15, 2012
• Family court guilty of shocking delays (Swindon) http://t.co/a9uYGxI8 Jan 15, 2012
• MALAMALAYSIA: Environmental Green courts in pipeline http://t.co/gcZzjhWX Jan 15, 2012
• INDIA: India's Courts Grapple With Web Censorship: http://t.co/jLsSLrIu Jan 15, 2012
• INDIA: Latest Supreme Court ruling on drunken driving to sober up many - The Times of India http://t.co/IazRejw4 Jan 15, 2012
• US: Supreme Court to consider educators' response to cyber-bullying http://t.co/Qknkrkdn Jan 15, 2012
• US: Many states don't require civil rights lessons in schools, study says | The Augusta Chronicle: http://t.co/qTMldA0G Jan 15, 2012
• MALAYSIA: Learning about legal rights http://t.co/3c1eaj8F Jan 15, 2012
• Apple opens factory doors to rights monitors http://t.co/F1UT9XSA @abcnews Jan 15, 2012
• US: Rights in the Workplace: http://t.co/qLkudvXU Jan 15, 2012
• You Can't Read This Book: why libel tourists love London http://t.co/N6xZoDzK via @guardian Jan 15, 2012
• Child offenders 'dumped in prison' as cuts erode social care http://t.co/xdmeQCOu via @guardian Jan 15, 2012
• Has the UN learned lessons of Bosnian sex slavery revealed in Rachel Weisz film? http://t.co/izaUdseM via @guardian Jan 15, 2012
• Ken Clarke is ready to betray 800 years of British justice | Henry Porter http://t.co/VB1nhacB via @guardian Jan 15, 2012
• The Barrister Magazine - The Impact of the civil legal aid cuts http://t.co/MLCfZgAF Jan 15, 2012
• The Barrister Magazine: Asking the right questions: The Law Commission Consultation Paper Marital Property Agreements http://t.co/XauhgU2k Jan 15, 2012
• Murder arrest as woman and girl found dead in Garforth http://t.co/s1bkXqD4 Jan 15, 2012
• Last weeks law news review from http://t.co/JNwffZFr - SUNDAY LAW REVIEW: 8-14th Jan in the WORLD OF LAW - http://t.co/9SkCIM9d #LAW Jan 15, 2012
• CANADA: Change to election law allows earlier reporting http://t.co/LIAqpFHN Jan 15, 2012
• INDIA:Congress ties itself in knots over quota issue - http://t.co/nbPia3zQ Jan 15, 2012