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A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Venezuela wins seat on UN Human Rights Council - BBC News

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Three judges face disciplinary charges after a night of revelry ended with two of them being shot outside of fast food restaurant White Castle. Judges Andrew Adams and Bradley Jacobs had been drinking with Judge Sabrina Bell in Indianapolis on the first evening of a judicial conference.

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A tenant in a house of multiple occupancy who claimed she and her landlords were subject to a private residential tenancy (PRT) has had her appeal dismissed. The appellant was seeking remedies under the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016, but the Upper Tribunal for Scotland&nb

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A district judge who raised concerns about budget cuts qualifies as a worker for the purposes of legislation protecting whistleblowers, justices in the Supreme Court have ruled. Lady Hale with whom Lord Kerr, Lord Carnwath, Lady Arden and Sir Declan Morgan agreed, delivered the judgment.

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Controversial UK government plans to bring in the world's first age-verification system for online pornography have been abandoned. The commencement of part 3 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 was repeatedly delayed, having originally been set for April 2018.

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The latest edition of the Edinburgh Student Law Review (ESLR) has been launched at an event at Old College. The evening featured speeches from outgoing editors in chief, Shona Warwick and Dionysios Pelekis and Dr Andrew Steven, senior lecturer at Edinburgh Law School, former Scottish law commissione

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A woman has listed Donald Trump's alleged crimes in a scathing parody song she uploaded to the internet.

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