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Convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi speaks during an exclusive interview with Reuters TV at his home in Tripoli, 3 October 2011. - Reuters
A Scottish court rejected on Friday an appeal to overturn the conviction of a now-deceased Libyan man found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing which killed 270 people.
Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, an intelligence officer who died in 2012, was jailed for life in 2001 for the murder of 243 passengers, 16 crew and 11 residents of the Scottish town in the deadliest militant attack in British history.
In March, an independent Scottish review ruled that his family could launch a third appeal due to a possible miscarriage of justice. But on Friday, five judges at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Scotland rejected that.
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Grim moment Lord Sumption, former judge tells stage 4 cancer sufferer her life is less valuable . Video / BBC
Grim moment Lord Sumption, former judge tells stage 4 cancer sufferer her life is less valuable . Video / BBC
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Former UK Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption has cruelly told a stage 4 bowel cancer sufferer her life was less valuable than others live on national television.
Appearing on the BBC s The Big Questions to discuss the cost of lockdown, the civil liberties campaigner went toe-to-toe with cancer sufferer Deborah James.
LONDON: Small businesses, from restaurants to nightclubs and wedding planners to beauty parlors, have won the right to insurance payouts after Britain’s highest court ruled their policies should cover losses caused by coronavirus lockdowns.
Six of the world’s largest commercial insurers Hiscox, RSA, QBE, Argenta, Arch and MS Amlin argued many business interruption policies did not cover widespread disruption after Britain’s first national lockdown last March.
But the UK Supreme Court dismissed appeals by the insurers after scrutinizing non-damage insurance policy clauses which cover disease, denial of access to business premises and hybrid clauses in a victory for the regulator and policyholders.