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It is more than two weeks now since His Lordship Justice Ijeoma L. Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, gave clear, positive and unambiguous orders in the matter between Col Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (rtd) as applicant and three persons – the Director General, State Security Services, the State Security Services and the Attorney General …
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In short: the Home Office are frequently refusing them. This may not come as a surprise to immigration lawyers, who are all too familiar with the Home Office’s culture of disbelief, but it has come as a nasty shock to many artists, authors, and performers refused entry to the UK recently. The Radio Times reported last …
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Reuters In our series of letters from Africa, Nigerian writer and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani says scenes reassembling a coup in her country have left many scratching their heads. Nigerians still can't say for sure why armed, masked men held our country's parliament under siege last week. But the alarming incident had a most joyous …
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The growing number of people in court in England and Wales without a lawyer is a travesty of justice Lawyers protesting against cuts to legal aid fees in 2014. Photograph: London News Pictures/REX/Shutterstock Barristers and solicitors protesting about cuts don’t attract the same level of public support as doctors and nurses. What goes on in …
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A ruling that has the potential to change the way Islamic marriage (plus other faiths) and divorce works in England and Wales. Today, Sarah Jane joins us on the blog to discuss the case in further detail and recap on her London Live interview. “This ruling certainly has the potential to set precedent for faith …
