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Northern Ireland’s blasphemy laws are unlikely to be repealed within the current session of the Assembly. Northern Ireland Humanists has been working with the relevant Ministers to bring forward repeal. The Department of Justice hoped to do so as part of a wider criminal law reform bill. But the Department of Justice has been unable… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) is excited to announce the appointment of law academic Dr Marnie Lovejoy as its new head of environment law research. Marnie has a PhD in law and is the former associate head of Portsmouth Law School. Gamekeeping runs in her family and she is a keen beater… Read more »
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Whitehall staff have been banned from taking laptops containing personal or unencrypted information outside of their government offices. Head of the civil service Sir Gus O’Donnell wrote to all government departments imposing the ban in the light of the latest data loss by the government. Defence secretary Des Browne yesterday confirmed to MPs a laptop… Read more »
The government is unlikely to face a significant rebellion when MPs vote on the EU treaty tonight. At one stage it was claimed more than 100 Labour MPs were prepared to vote against the government in protest at the refusal to hold a referendum on the EU Lisbon treaty. The government maintains the Lisbon treaty,… Read more »
