The Supreme Court is allowing President Trump’s administration to fully enforce a ban on travel to the US by residents of six mostly Muslim countries. The order allows enforcement while legal challenges against it proceed. Legal analyst Seth Berenzweig joins CBSN to discuss the development.
News reports today indicate the UK government is intent on mounting a crackdown on bitcoin by introducing tighter regulation on the cryptomarkets. The Treasury said it will regulate the digital money and bring it in line with current anti-money laundering laws and counter-terrorism financial legislation. Reports suggest that under the EU-wide plan, online platforms that […]
NHS worker Jakki Smith has won a legal battle against the government to win better rights for unmarried people who lost their long-term partners. According to the BBC, Jakki Smith, from Chorley, UK, sued the government for denying her bereavement compensation after her partner of 16 years, John Bulloch, died from an infection that medics […]
Judges have joined barristers, solicitors and a range of specialists in airing a catalogue of concerns over the Government’s treatment of immigration detainees in a report published this week that condemns inflexible Home Office rules and target-obsessed officials.[i] Speaking under the condition of strict anonymity for an independent study commissioned by the Bar Council, one […]
Philip Hammond has done something extraordinarily positive in this Budget – he’s not tinkered with pensions to raise cash, affirms the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations. The praise from Nigel Green, Founder and Chief Executive of deVere Group, comes after the Chancellor delivered the Autumn Budget 2017 a week […]
A leading independent medical reporting organisation has responded to an academic’s call for an overhaul of the claims process before the government presses ahead with plans to increase the small claims limit from £1,000 to £5,000. Reacting to comments made by Cardiff Law School academic Annette Morris at the Westminster Legal Policy Forum that ministers […]
Over the past week you will have seen a lot of news on the resignation of Robert Mugabe, following a coup from the military in Zimbabwe, and the consequent inauguration of a new President, Emmerson Mnangagwa. But where did this southern African nation’s complex socio-political tension emerge from? Below Girish Thanki, Partner at Stuart Miller, […]
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