Posts Tagged ‘legal-challenge’

Warning over expenses complaints

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

The scheme set up to oversee expenses complaints against MPs is “woolly” and could be open to legal challenge, MPs were told.

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Warning over expenses complaints

Patients win smoke ban challenge

Friday, May 6th, 2011

Patients sectioned under the Mental Health Act win permission to bring a legal challenge over a smoking ban.

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Patients win smoke ban challenge

Patients win smoke ban challenge

Friday, May 6th, 2011

Patients sectioned under the Mental Health Act win permission to bring a legal challenge over a smoking ban.

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Patients win smoke ban challenge

Legal battle over academies cuts

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

A group of local councils mount a legal challenge over cuts to their budgets tied to the government’s academies expansion programme.

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Legal battle over academies cuts

Legal battle over academies cuts

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

A group of local councils mount a legal challenge over cuts to their budgets tied to the government’s academies expansion programme.

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Legal battle over academies cuts

Kerr murder: legal bid launched

Monday, April 11th, 2011

The wife of one of the men being held in connection with the murder of Constable Ronan Kerr launches a legal challenge over being denied access to the family home.

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Kerr murder: legal bid launched

Civil servants reject jobs terms

Friday, January 14th, 2011

The government faces a legal challenge over the civil service redundancy scheme after proposed changes were rejected by members of the main Whitehall union.

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Civil servants reject jobs terms

Legal bid to allow gay marriages

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

A campaign group is launching a legal challenge in the European Court of Human Rights to extend the rights of gay couples to allow full marriage.

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Legal bid to allow gay marriages

Texas Hears Death-Penalty Challenge

Monday, December 6th, 2010

A courtroom in downtown Houston became the epicenter of the death-penalty debate Monday, as a legal challenge began against executions in Texas. The presiding judge, Kevin Fine, shocked many legal experts by even hearing the case in a state where the…

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Texas Hears Death-Penalty Challenge

Election result challenge fails

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

A legal challenge to Sinn Fein MP Michelle Gildernew’s four-vote general election win in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency is rejected.

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Election result challenge fails

Aung San Suu Kyi sues Burma junta

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

Detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has filed a legal challenge over the dissolution of her party by the military authorities.

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Aung San Suu Kyi sues Burma junta

Connor to begin legal challenge

Monday, September 13th, 2010

The Unionist Unity candidate, who lost out in the general election to Sinn Fein’s Michelle Gildernew by four votes, begins a legal challenge on Monday over the result.

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Connor to begin legal challenge

Warning on fixed term parliaments

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

The government’s fixed-term parliaments bill could be vulnerable to legal challenge, the Commons’ top official warns.

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Warning on fixed term parliaments

Wyclef Jean contests poll ruling

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean says he will launch a legal challenge to a ruling barring him from standing in Haiti’s presidential election.

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Wyclef Jean contests poll ruling