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The son of Christine Keeler, the woman at the heart of the Profumo affair, is seeking a posthumous pardon for her, The Times reports. Ms Keeler, a model, had an affair with government minister John Profumo in 1961 when she was 19. The affair nearly brought down the government of Harold Macmillan in

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Benjamin Bestgen asks us this week to consider just prices. See last week's jurisprudential primer here. Caricatures of fatcat lawyers and greedy shysters lining their pockets through frivolous claims and overcharging clients have linked the legal profession unflatteringly with money for centur

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A High Court judge whose father was a law lord has been used as an example of diversity on the bench by the Judicial Office of England and Wales. Mrs Justice Steyn appears in a video answering questions on how she got into law and the obstacles she faced in her career, Legal Cheek reports.

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The Crown Office has apologised for taking a decade to complete an inquiry into the death of a seaman. Stanislaw Bania, 58, an able seaman, died from “cold water immersion” after he fell into the Clyde from a ship that was unloading at King George V Docks in 2010.

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Further to our piece of 11 November, Lord Stewart, a former Senator of the College of Justice, writes with more detail about the fascinating life of his grandfather Archibald Stewart, who died in the bombing of Campbeltown in 1941. Gillian Mawdsley’s Armistice Day article about the death of my

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Apple is in breach of European privacy law by tracking iPhone users without their consent, privacy activist Max Schrems has said. The campaigner, who previously waged a legal war against Facebook, forcing it to change the way it transfers data, has now filed complaints to Spanish and German authorit

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BBM Solicitors is celebrating its 10th birthday this month. The firm was founded by brothers Eric Baijal and Alasdair Baijal with the support of their friend and colleague Jennifer Mairi Simpson.

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A man suspected of stealing Pope John Paul II's blood has been identified by Italian police. The vial of blood, taken from the pope shortly before his death in 2005, was stolen from a cathedral in September.

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