21 h. ago Hockey Canada trial: Defence lawyer, complainant spar as new messages surface

Hockey Canada trial: Defence lawyer, complainant spar as new messages surface  London Free Press

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35 h. ago Defence lawyer challenges complainant’s testimony in hockey sex

Defence lawyer challenges complainant’s testimony in hockey sex-assault trial  CTV News

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1 week ago Complaints about universities from students surge to record high in 2024

The watchdog said it will monitor complaints as financial challenges facing the sector ‘may impact on students’ experiences’.

Society

2 w. ago Diddy’s lawyers: who are they and why did Anthony Ricco, who represented Bin Laden, quit?

As Diddy's trial approaches, the defence team faces unexpected setbacks. What led to prominent lawyer Anthony Ricco stepping down so close to the start of the case?

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2 w. ago Celebrity Big Brother is hit by more Ofcom complaints after Chris Hughes and JoJo Siwa's 'disgusting' act during cat

Celebrity Big Brother has been hit by more Ofcom complaints after Chris Hughes and JoJo Siwa's 'disgusting' act during a cat-themed challenge last week.

Events

3 w. ago Fifty years on, New Zealand’s tribunal upholding Māori rights faces a turning point

The Waitangi Tribunal has had a significant impact on Indigenous rights and policy but as it marks its 50th anniversary its role is being questionedIn the 1980s, New Zealand’s department of Māori affairs set aside money for language groups to spend on projects as they saw fit. When Wellington teacher Huirangi Waikerepuru received his group’s share, he used it to challenge the government.He took his complaint to a relatively new body called the Waitangi Tribunal. Formed in 1975 amid a wave of protest, it was designed to address Māori grievances by determining whether the meaning of the country’s founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, was being adhered to. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago JK Rowling's barrister friend who was banned by vets' practice over 'rude' and 'unacceptable' behaviour sues for £25K as she claims real reason is her gender critical beliefs

Criminal defence lawyer Allison Bailey was 'expelled' from the client register of Palmerston Veterinary Group's practice in Walthamstow, east London, in January 2023.

Economics

4 w. ago Name by Constance Debré review – a demolition of bourgeois life

The French author takes aim at marriage, childhood and her illustrious family name in the finale of a landmark autofictional trilogy“What is your name? My name is Nobody, a name is nothing, like family, like childhood, I don’t believe in it, I don’t want it.” Constance Debré has a grand name – her grandfather was the prime minister who drafted the French constitution – and she’s long been trying to disgrace it. She is driven by a mixture of petulant rebellion, existential longing for erasure and revolutionary anarchism. A decade ago she left behind her husband, job as a criminal defence lawyer, furniture and crockery to embark on a new life of casual sex with women and iconoclastic, fervent writing.Following Love Me Tender and Playboy, Name is the final instalment in the autofictional trilogy where, with fury, disdain and panache, Debré has recorded her revulsion at bourgeois life and at the legal system that allowed her ex-husband to remove their son because of her h...

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