W80, an armed police officer, shot Jermaine Baker dead in a police operation. Mr Baker was implicated in a plot to snatch two individuals from custody. The police had intelligence that the plotters would be in possession of firearms. W80’s account was that during the intervention, Mr Baker’s hands moved quickly up to a shoulder bag on his chest. Fearing for his life and those of his colleagues, W80 fired one shot. No firearm was found in the bag, but an imitation firearm was in the rear of the car.

An investigation was conducted by the Independent Office for Police

By Tim Reid and Nathan Layne

(Reuters) – Real estate mogul Ron Weiser has been one of the biggest donors to the Michigan Republican Party, giving $4.5 million in the recent midterm election cycle. But no more.

Weiser, former chair of the party, has halted his funding, citing concerns about the organization’s stewardship. He says he doesn’t agree with Republicans who promote falsehoods about election results and insists it’s “ludicrous” to claim Donald Trump, who lost Michigan by 154,000 votes in 2020, carried the state.

“I question whether the state party has the necessary expertise to spend the money well,”

In this post, Anna Walsh (Partner) and Nicole Ellerby (Associate) in CMS’ medical malpractice team considered the awaited decision from the Supreme Court in the Scottish case of McCulloch and Ors v Forth Valley Health Board [2021] CSHI 21.

Overview

The appeal of the decision in McCulloch and Ors v Forth Valley Health Board [2021] CSIH 21 was heard by the Supreme Court on 10 May 2023. The issues appealed to the Supreme Court concern the legal test to be applied when determining whether an alternative course of treatment is reasonable in addition to whether the courts erred in their

WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Mike Pence confirmed that he called former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey at Donald Trump’s request to discuss the 2020 election results, but insisted that Trump never pressured him to find evidence to back up his unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud.

“I did check in, with not only Gov. Ducey, but other governors and states that were going through the legal process of reviewing their election results,” Pence said in an interview aired Sunday on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.” “But there was no pressure involved. I was called to get an update. I passed along

CALL FOR PAPERS

ILPC Annual Conference 2023 – Human in the Machine: Digital Rights and AI

We are pleased to announce this call for papers for the Information Law and Policy Centre’s 8^th Annual Conference on 23-24 November 2023 hosted by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) and supported by the School of Advanced Studies (SAS) and Bloomsbury’s Communications Law. You can read about our previous annual events here.

We are looking for high quality contributions that explore the impact of policymaking on human-data interaction, automated and self-learning systems, including generative AI, that are used across

The ILPC is honored to announce that Robert Spanoformer President of the European Court of Human Rights, will deliver the ILPC Annual Lecture 2023.

Mr Spano is a Partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and a tenured Professor of Law, University of Iceland. Mr Spano is an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple and has published extensively in the areas of international dispute resolution, public international law, digital rights, and human rights law. During his time at the Strasbourg Court, he took

Nafisa Hasan (“the wife”) and Mahmud Ul-Hasan (“the husband”) married in 1981. In 2012 in Pakistan the husband obtained a divorce. The wife applied to the courts in England and Wales for financial relief under section 12(1) of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (“the 1984 Act”) on the basis that the divorce was an overseas divorce recognized as valid in England and Wales. On her application under the 1984 Act, the court in England and Wales was empowered to make any of the orders which it could make under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (“the 1973 Act”) if