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A cannabis business has been sanctioned for handing out free ice cream. While cannabis can now be bought and sold for recreational use in Ohio, one dealer has been slapped with a fine of $150,000 – around £115,000 – for handing out free sweet treats as well.
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The Dundee Legal Walk 2024 will take place on Wednesday 2 October. Legal walks are held all over the UK and raise money for the Access to Justice Foundation to fund free legal advice in the form of grants to advice charities working in communities that need it most.
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A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. China releases tortured rights lawyer Chang Weiping | Radio Free Asia
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A tourist threatened by a blowtorch-wielding "pirate" was unexpectedly rescued by two naked men. Nudists Pete Sferra and Lloyd Fishback were taking a clothes-free stroll through the Castro neighbourhood of San Francisco when they spotted the person they described as a "crazy kind of pirate guy".
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CMS is to host a free-to-attend event focused on one of the key challenges facing the UK renewable energy industry: how to solve the issue of grid connections. The seminar, being held in Aberdeen on 19 June, includes contributions from Calum Watt, grid technical authority at Flotation Energy, who wi
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The Faculty of Advocates Free Legal Services Unit (FLSU) will host a free event next month aimed at progressing the work being done to promote pro bono and extend access to justice. At the event the keeper of the Advocates Library and convenor of the FLSU, Neil Mackenzie KC, will deliver a presentat
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Julian Assange has won leave to make a fresh appeal against his extradition to the US on charges of leaking military secrets after arguing he may not be able to rely on his right to free speech in a US trial.
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A company which hid an offer of free wine in its online privacy policy has said it has finally been claimed three months later. Tax Policy Associates (TPA) added the following words to its privacy policy in February: "We will send a bottle of good wine to the first person to read this."
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Another ‘trial of the century’ book! This one is a narrative account of events leading up to the 1877 prosecution of a feminist free-thinker, Annie Besant, together with her friend, the activist and liberal politician Charles Bradlaugh. They had arranged for the publication of Charles Kn
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CMS is hosting a free-to-attend event highlighting the growing risk of class action lawsuits facing Scotland’s food and drink (F&D) industry. The online session will focus on the threat of class action proceedings, which were introduced in Scotland in 2020, and how they specifically impact
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Shared Parenting Scotland has invited Gillian Bishop from Family Law in Partnership, the developers of ReFLEx Training, to speak at two free events in Scotland next month, in Glasgow on 9 May and Edinburgh on 10 May. ReFLEx Training was developed in England and Wales in 2022 to address the broader e
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Reintroduction of fees in Employment Tribunals will cause unacceptable access to justice issues for those most in need of free legal protections, according to the Law Society of Scotland. The Law Society responded to Ministry of Justice’s consultation on introducing fees in the Employment Trib
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Human rights organisation Liberty has claimed a "significant victory for the rights of journalists and the free press" after a seven-year legal challenge supported by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). The UK government has agreed to introduce new safeguards to protect journalists from having
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The judge who decided against punishing three women who displayed a parachute image at a protest recently liked a social media post that described Israel as a "terrorist" and called for a "free Palestine". Tan Ikram CBE, 58, deputy senior district judged, liked the LinkedIn post by a barrister three
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