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The Law Society is to host a debate on the difficulty of balancing lawyers' client duty and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ('Ruggie principles').
Law Society comment on rocket and mortar attacks on Iranian refugees resident in Camp Liberty in the early morning of 9 February 2013.
A leading lawyer has called for greater protections for LGBT asylum seekers.
Government amendments to the Justice and Security Bill are a small step in the right direction, but they don't go far enough to reduce concern over the extension of secret courts to ordinary civil law cases.
The Law Society has warned that British justice will suffer if secret courts are extended to ordinary civil law cases.
The Law Society has called for the creation of 'constitutional rights' that apply to people's every day lives, by adding to the existing laws rather than creating a separate Bill of Rights.
The Law Society president has written to the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, urging him to 'do the right thing' and guarantee the welfare of imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh.
Law Society statement on plans by ministers to legislate on whether prisoners should be allowed the vote following a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights.
The government has responded to our concerns about the validity of compromise agreements drafted under the Equality Act.
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