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ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Tycoon's Atty Looks To Use Suicide Risk To Block Extradition Law360, London (January 7, 2021, 4:09 PM GMT) -- A lawyer for diamond magnate Nirav Modi urged a London court on Thursday to block his extradition to face fraud charges in India because the risk that he will commit suicide in prison is similar to concerns that won Julian Assange reprieve earlier in the week. Clare Montgomery QC of Matrix Chambers argued at a hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday that extraditing Nirav Modi to his home country would be "oppressive" and might lead her clien...

Top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2020 Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2020 Share this item with your network: By Published: 31 Dec 2020 9:00 The year 2020 has been shaped by the global pandemic and international outcry over institutional racism and white supremacy. A number of technology companies, for example, came under sustained scrutiny for their ties to law enforcement and how, despite their proclamations of using “tech for good”, their products are used to further entrench racist policing practices.  Facial recognition was another ma...

Protect civil servants if they leak secrets in public interest, lawyers demand People who expose wrongdoing by authorities should be able to argue they were acting in wider good, claims leading barrister 30 December 2020 • 9:00pm Britain's top lawyers have launched a campaign for civil servants to be protected if they leak secrets to journalists in the public interest.    In a submission to Parliament, the lawyers argue the current denial of a public interest defence is out of kilter with a modern technological age inn which freedom of information has been established as "a basic tenet o...

Seven top sets of barristers’ chambers have agreed to fund pupillages that would have been otherwise cancelled due to Covid-19. They follow in the wake of Keating Chambers, which put forward £20,000 in the summer to help fund a criminal Bar pupillage in a bid to offset the financial impact of the pandemic on the criminal bar. The further sets that have now stepped forward are Atkin Chambers, Brick Court Chambers, Twenty Essex, Matrix Chambers, 3 Verulam Buildings, along with a group of members at Blackstone Chambers and a group of members 4 Pump Court. Incoming chair of the Bar Council Der...