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Exclusive: The number of people seeking support in court because they have no lawyer is up 520% since 2011. BuzzFeed News spent three days in Birmingham's courts to find out how these people cope. Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed News It has only taken Adrian Hawkes four weeks of working as a civil lawyer to loathe …
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Europe is expelling thousands of Africans. To one Malian deportee, that looks like a recipe for revolution. BAMAKO, Mali — It was in Paris, but it wasn’t glamorous work. Amadou Coulibaly spent his nights swabbing a mop over acres of dimly lit office space as France’s corporate workforce slept. Each dawn, he bedded down with …
Diplomats who are accused of abusing their own employees cannot escape compensation claims under the shelter of state immunity, the UK's highest court ruled today. In a case brought by two Moroccan domestic workers against the Libyan and Sudanese embassies who employed them, the Supreme Court ruled that the State Immunity Act 1978 to prevent …
Michael Bloomberg at the Plaza Hotel in New York City | Drew Angerer/EPA Media mogul and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Brexit voters tried to “ruin” the U.K. and described the decision to leave the European Union as an almost unparalleled act of stupidity. “It is really hard to understand why a country …
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