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Is it time to decriminalise abortion in the UK? – podcast | News
[ad_1] This week, a 44-year-old woman was sentenced to more than two years in prison for procuring drugs to induce an abortion after the legal time limit. The controversial case has shone a light on the fact that abortion is still a crime in the UK. The Guardian reporter Tobi Thomas, who was at the…
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Ministers urged to relax abortion laws in Great Britain after woman jailed | Abortion
[ad_1] Ministers are facing calls to “step up” and decriminalise abortion in Great Britain after a woman was jailed for terminating her pregnancy, as an influential Labour MP said she hoped her party would act if it won power. The call by Dame Diana Johnson, who previously tried to repeal the 1861 Offences Against the…
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Offering Sharia-compliant occupational pensions – Pensions Barrister
[ad_1] ‘Lydia Seymour discusses the important and topical question of whether there is an obligation to offer Sharia-compliant pension schemes.’ Full Story Pensions Barrister, 4th May 2023 Source: www.pensionsbarrister.com [ad_2]
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The Public Order Bill Set To Become Law: Know Your Rights
[ad_1] The controversial Public Order Bill is receiving final amendments from Parliament and will receive Royal Assent before becoming an official Act. Here is what those amendments mean for your rights. What is the Public Order Bill? The anticipated Bill has come under criticism from across the House of Commons and the House of Lords for…
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Protest and proportionality in the Supreme Court: The Safe Access Zones Bill Reference [2022] UKSC 32
[ad_1] 14 December 2022 by Anurag Deb A pro-choice rally in Belfast in 2021. Photograph: David Young/PA Introduction Abortion in Northern Ireland has had a fraught and frequently distressing history. Until 2019 when the UK Parliament reformed the law, the jurisdiction had the most restrictive approach to abortion in the UK. But even this reform…
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Woman with Down’s syndrome loses abortion law appeal
[ad_1] Ms Crowter, who has the condition, argued that the rules were discriminatory to people with Down’s. She said the legislation “doesn’t respect my life” and brought a case against the government at the High Court in July 2021 with Maire Lea-Wilson, 33, from west London, whose son Aidan has Down’s syndrome. [ad_2]
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Islamic Marriage and the Legal System: Mahr/Dowr
[ad_1] Breakdown of marriage and legality of Mahr/Dower Issues before the English Courts Where dower becomes problematic and somewhat contentious following a marital breakdown, the wife may want to be paid any unpaid mahr that may have been specified at the time of the Nikkah and such terms should be included in the Nikkah contract,…
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Parents of dying baby “should have had adjournment” after lawyers withdrew
[ad_1] Baker: Strong arguments in favour of granting adjournment A High Court judge was wrong to refuse an adjournment sought by parents of a brain-damaged baby who lost their legal representation shortly before a hearing on withdrawing treatment, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Lord Justice Baker said that, although Mr Justice Hayden had been…
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Woman kept in police custody for 36 hours after stillborn birth due to suspicions she had ‘illegal abortion’
[ad_1] Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email A woman was kept in police custody for 36 hours after having a stillbirth because of suspicions she had an abortion after the legal cut-off point, it has been claimed. UK abortion providers,…
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The Bill of Rights and the Precarity of Abortion Rights – UK Constitutional Law Association
[ad_1] In the aftermath of the US Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization attention has turned to whether abortion is adequately protected in the UK from the winds of political change. Given that in England, Scotland, and Wales abortion is provided for by ordinary Act of Parliament, and in Northern Ireland by Regulation, an orthodox…