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“Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man’s life” Daniel Webster
Over time, this nation has developed a rather peculiar tradition. Whenever politicians are arrested or summoned before the courts, they rally huge crowds, usually armed with bludgeons and stones, and block the main thoroughfares, obstructing the path of emergency services and disrupting traffic as if something momentous has occurred.
Regardless of whether or not they do any actual good for the nation, these public representatives always want to cast themselves as heroes, moving around with great fanfare even if they have been charged with a crime that they might possibly have committed. Having said this, it is the right of their supporters to protest if they think that the State has demonstrated high-handedness but not before exploring and exhausting legal remedies. This can be done by way of gathering peacefully at assigned spots, displaying placards and banner
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April 22, 2021 at 8:34 am
âWe were ordered to kill the birds which had been injured by the explosion. Some were still flying around, but they were blind, as their eyes had been burned out. We used pickaxe handles to kill the birds. I did not like doing this, but we had no choice because of the terrible condition they were in.â
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On 7 November 2019, during routine Scottish parliamentary proceedings, Member of the Scottish Parliament George Adam read out this piece of shocking testimony from a long-time friend, Ken McGinley. It is just one of many horrific anecdotes to emerge from Britainâs secret nuclear history, many of which are being told by the British Nuclear Test Veterans Association, representing men sent to build explosive devices and to carry out and witness Britainâs nuclear bomb tests.
TikTok Faces Damages Claim Worth Billions in London Child-Privacy Lawsuit
LONDON – TikTok, the wildly popular video app, and its Chinese parent ByteDance could face a damages claim worth billions of pounds (dollars) in London’s High Court over allegations they illegally harvested the private data of millions of European children.
Anne Longfield, the former Children’s Commissioner for England and so-called “litigation friend,” or public face, of an anonymous 12-year-old girl leading the class action, said on Wednesday that affected children could receive thousands of pounds each if the claim is successful.
Longfield alleged that every child that has used TikTok since May 25, 2018, may have had private personal information illegally collected by ByteDance through TikTok for the benefit of unknown third parties.
In its decision in
Sierra Leone v SL Mining Ltd,(1) the High Court confirmed that alleged non-compliance with the provisions of a multi-tiered dispute resolution clause (in particular, the submission of claims to arbitration prior to the end of a prescribed period of negotiation) is exclusively a matter of admissibility for the arbitral tribunal and cannot lead to a successful jurisdictional challenge under Section 67 of the Arbitration Act 1996. This decision confirms the scope of a London-seated tribunal s substantive jurisdiction under Section 30(1) of the Arbitration Act. It also confirms that initiation of arbitration proceedings, in apparent breach of a mandatory multi-tiered dispute resolution clause, may be valid where settlement of the dispute is deemed impossible within the remaining prescribed period.