66 h. ago Nurse in trans doctor case demands clarity from union on single

The Royal College of Nursing reportedly wrote to an English health board claiming it was breaking the law with its changing room policy.

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67 h. ago The UK has spoken out against the ‘monstrous’ human catastrophe in Gaza. Why won’t Australia do more? | Donald Rothwell

Foreign minister Penny Wong has called the risk to babies ‘horrifying’ but there is more Australia could do to make its position on Gaza clearGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe humanitarian situation in Gaza has reached a breaking point, with 2.1 million Palestinians trying to survive human catastrophe on the strip.While there is a very faint flicker of hope that Israel is considering a change of direction with its rigid Gaza blockade, any relaxation of the blockade will take many weeks to be undone, given the starvation and malnutrition Palestinians have endured.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news emailDonald Rothwell is professor of international law at the Australian National University Continue reading...

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67 h. ago Trade union bosses hit by furious backlash from activists after telling transgender women they must use men's toilets at annual conference

Leaders of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned delegates at their annual conference in Brighton they risk breaking the law if they do not use the correct lavatories.

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69 h. ago UK tourists in Turkey warned they are breaking law if they don't carry item with them

Anyone visiting Turkey must "always" have this item with them

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3 d. ago Bombshell study reveals the travel companies still ignoring new rules on dodgy add

In a new investigation, Which? has found that many well-known travel brands are potentially breaking the law by ignoring, or at least dragging their feet, on the new DMCC Act rules.

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3 d. ago ‘Record’ 81 criminal investigations into water sector as sewage inspections soar

The Government insists water companies which break the law will be punished for their ‘disgraceful behaviour’.

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3 d. ago Democrats warn Redstone Paramount talks with Trump over CBS Kamala Harris interview may be bribery

‘If Paramount officials make these concessions in a quid pro quo arrangement to influence President Trump or other Administration officials, they may be breaking the law,’ the senators wrote to Shair Redstone

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4 d. ago Kids who kick footballs over garden fences are breaking the law, rules the High Court after couple SUED school next to their £2m home over 'nuisance'

The High Court has ruled that repeatedly kicking footballs over a neighbour's fence is a nuisance and breaches common law.

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4 d. ago ITV This Morning star breaks the law after argument with neighbour

Kate Lawler took to social media to ask her followers if she was in the wrong and it turns out, she broke the law.

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4 d. ago This Morning host Kate Lawler forced to apologise to neighbour after admitting she broke the law

This Morning presenter Kate Lawler was told off by her neighbour - and was forced to issue an apology after breaking the law with her DIY

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4 d. ago ITV This Morning star angers neighbour after 'breaking the law'

This Morning presenter Kate Lawler was left stunned after discovering she had broken the law

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4 d. ago Kids repeatedly kicking footballs into a garden breaks the law, says judge after couple sue school next to £2m home over 'nuisance' 5

The High Court has ruled that repeatedly kicking footballs over a neighbour's fence is a nuisance and breaches common law.

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7 d. ago Britain 'has asked to rejoin EU's pet passport scheme' to cut cost of taking animals to the continent

Some 250,000 UK pet owners were estimated to have taken their cats and dogs on holiday to the EU every year before Britain left the scheme when the Brexit transition period ended in January 2021.

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9 d. ago Emergency measures to be introduced before overcrowded prisons reach 'zero capacity'

“If our prisons overflow, we reach a total breakdown of law and order"

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9 d. ago Recalled prisoners to be released after 28 days under emergency measures to free up 1400 cells

The justice secretary warned we are five months from running out of prison places - which risks the ‘total breakdown of law and order’

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9 d. ago Labour faces 'mutiny' over 'betrayal' of British soldiers over bid to axe law that protects Northern Ireland veterans from legal action

EXCLUSIVE: Soldiers from three regiments in the British Army appeared to break ranks to voice their anger over the law change which would strip legal protection away from Troubles' veterans.

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1 week ago Is Britain breaking international law over Israel to avoid offending Trump? We may find out in court this week | Yasmine Ahmed

The UK’s arms exports to Israel will be tested again as a Palestinian rights group challenges the governmentYasmine Ahmed is UK director of Human Rights WatchOn Tuesday, the British government will be in the high court defending the indefensible: its continuing approval of arms exports to Israel. As the government’s lawyers take the floor to deliver their opening remarks – in a case that was brought by the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq and is supported by Human Rights Watch – thousands of children in Gaza will be starving. This is the result of an Israeli blockade on food, aid and medical supplies that defies the binding orders of the international court of justice.Thousands of mothers will be mourning the children they have lost in an assault on Gaza that is estimated to have cost the lives of more than 50,000 people, according to the Gaza ministry of health. Thousands of people will be homeless, forcibly displaced and living among the rubble of the towns and cities they no...

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2 w. ago Ministers accused of ‘still breaking the law’ over fishing licences

Charity Open Seas made the allegation more than a year after a decision in its favour at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.

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2 w. ago Erin Patterson discharged herself five minutes after doctor warned she may have death cap mushroom poisoning, court hears

Doctor tells Victorian triple murder trial he called the police in a bid to have Patterson return to the hospitalWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA doctor who treated Erin Patterson has told her triple murder trial that he was surprised she discharged herself from hospital five minutes after being told she may have been exposed to potentially fatal mushroom poisoning.Dr Christopher Webster, who was working at the Leongatha hospital two days after Patterson served beef wellington to her in-laws for lunch, gave evidence on Wednesday at the Latrobe Valley law courts in Morwell.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘Desperate, traumatised people’: Gaza faces wave of looting, theft and violence

Aid officials and residents report breakdown in law and order as food and supplies run out during Israeli blockadeGaza has been hit by a wave of looting and theft as increasingly desperate Palestinians struggle to get food while criminal gangs exploit a breakdown in law and order.Aid officials and witnesses in the devastated territory describe armed men attacking humanitarian warehouses, firefights over remaining food stores and a spate of stealing of supplies vital for survival, such as solar chargers, batteries, phones and cooking pots. Continue reading...

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