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TUC: A long road to recovery for employment and wages
23 January 2015
Under-employment will not return to its pre-crisis levels until 2023, if it continues at its current rate of reduction, according to new analysis on the Labour Force Survey by the TUC.
1% will own more wealth than the 99% by next year
22 January 2015
Oxfam have highlighted widening economic inequality at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week.
Editors call for surveillance reform
22 January 2015
Editors of all the UK’s national newspapers have written an open letter to David Cameron. The letter calls for surveillance laws to be reformed in order that police cannot access journalists’ phone records without a judge’s authorisation.
Judges concerned over court fees
22 January 2015
The government has announced that court fees will be increased.
Self-representation rises after legal aid cuts
22 January 2015
The number of criminal defendants forced to represent themselves has increased, showing the cuts to legal aid are proving a major barrier to justice.
Conservatives target human rights
22 January 2015
The Tories have drafted a replacement for the Human Rights Act, the Bill of Rights which plans to enable British judges to ignore rulings by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
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