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Belgium's former king will be fined €5,000 a day until he agrees to take part in a court-ordered paternity test. King Albert II, who abdicated in 2013, was ordered last year to submit to a DNA test after a woman claiming to be his daughter took out court proceedings.

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People who help ill relatives die are being spared jail sentences and shown leniency, it has been claimed. Campaigners have identified a number of cases where people who have helped others to end their lives have not been jailed and, in some cases, have not even been prosecuted.

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More than a third of priests in the Anglican church in Scotland have been bullied, a report has found. A survey of Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC) clergy found a “negative atmosphere which can foster bullying and harassment” in the church, The Times reports.

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Edinburgh Napier Law Clinic will host the eighth annual Scottish University Law Clinic Network Conference next month. The day will open with some words from the incoming president of the Law Society, John Mulholland, and close with a keynote from John Sturrock QC, founder and senior mediator at Core

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A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Imprisoned Chinese Rights Lawyer’s Family Hears From Him for First Time in 4 Years

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Irish Legal News assistant editor Connor Beaton reviews an account of the 1922 battle between supporters and opponents of the Anglo-Irish Treaty which all but destroyed the Four Courts, home to the superior courts of Ireland. For the last four years, the dome of the Four Courts in the heart of Dubli

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The heiress to a famous German biscuit company has come under fire for saying the company "did nothing wrong" by using slave labour in the Nazi era. Verena Bahlsen, 25, is an entrepreneur and the great-granddaughter of Hermann Bahlsen, creator of the Choco-Leibniz biscuits produced by the Bahlsen co

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