matthewheath

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EU proposes to ditch refugee quotas for member states(theguardian.com)
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by matthewheath 6y ago
That's poor conduct from the prosecution, and does contribute to any appeal grounds on the basis of procedural unfairness, but in itself is not a point of law. The High Court may well write scathing remarks about the prosecution's
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Perhaps. It is arguable that Mr Assange is not receiving a fair trial in the procedural sense of the word. The appeal court would be entitled to quash the verdict or remand it for reconsideration. Given previous precedent such as the Gary M
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> What would be the possible recourse against the verdict, to protest to all these (voluntary) mistakes? > Is there any court in UK to which ask to undo and rejudge? Yes. All extradition judgements may be appealed to the High Court of
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by matthewheath 6y ago
I have a stutter. I went to a speech and language therapist, which helped a little bit. For the longest time I couldn't say words like "Wednesday" (stuttering on the W) or even simple phrases like "Yes sir/ma'a
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by matthewheath 6y ago
> What bothers me the most is that Assange only crime in the UK is that he had skip bail from a crime without evidence. Yes, but extradition works on the basis that if they committed a crime abroad and it would be a crime in the UK,
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> What kinds of regulations could be broken For example, taking photographs in court, or in this case taking screenshots of court remotely. > why is remote access still possible for other trials? It's done on a case by case basis
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by matthewheath 6y ago
Yes, £500k doesn't get you much here. This is why I champion remote working and possibly relocating to more affordable areas of the United Kingdom, thus spreading the wealth around a bit more.
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by matthewheath 6y ago
Yes, I had similarly naive thoughts about that too. They want ludicrous sums for the deposit in my case, and also I haven't worked at my company for more than a year at the moment so I failed that too. At this rate, I'm considerin
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I earn more than my family or my peers earn, but living in London often feels like my money comes in and goes out again immediately. As a result, I currently live with my family in an extraordinarily nice house that I would never be able to
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> Is there any recognition in UK law for this role? No, except the general principle that justice should be seen. Which is "achieved" through the auxiliary room with the terrible video/audio link.
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Most of the UK also has similar statutory protections (6 years in England and Wales; 5 in Scotland), but after six months you have to prove the defect was present at the time of purchase too...
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by matthewheath 6y ago
Offsets are helpful, but are not the solution. At best, they're a stepping stone. The only sustainable solution is reduction in usage. I'm not sure how feasible that is, or how to achieve it necessarily, but that's the only s
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It's a shortened version of the slur "retard".
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> Tesco have just inexplicably switched from using cardboard egg containers to plastic ones. They've only switched because they've run out of the pulp used to make the cardboard egg containers. It's a temporary switch, alt
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Consent is just one basis of processing. There are others, such as "legitimate interest" or for the performance of a contract, for example.
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It doesn't sound like the lawyer was testifying? They can certainly lie in their presentation of the case, during summing up, etc.
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This was such an interesting read. As a gay man, I'm pleased some of our culture is being unearthed from the past like this.
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Yes, but apparently you put the family name first in Japan.
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Help Scout have this discoverability problem with dropdown menus - there's no scroll bar when the content overflows, so I had no idea there were more options until a colleague pointed it out. I felt absolutely ridiculous and ashamed af
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I am from the UK, so I am biased. I've also never used Stripe Atlas myself so I am ignorant of how easy or hard it is to wind things up there. -- Stripe Atlas appears to tie you in to a bunch of services(?) and I'm guessing it wou
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Kpop fans are active on Twitter and have flooded right-wing and pro-police hashtags with content designed to drown-out "racist" messages. The Verge covered it back in June: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6&#x2F
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Consent is only one potential basis for processing under GDPR. There are others such as "legitimate interest" which the controller and/or processor may rely on.
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While these events are terrible, I am pleased that the decisions made by Ofqual are open to judicial review—and that the Good Law Project are considering issuing a claim to force Ofqual to fix this mess.
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I'm not a social entepreneur myself, but I work for a social enterprise that offers two products: - An app ( https://badges.giki.earth ) that lets you scan barcodes for products in UK supermarkets and lets you see various bad
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> You could also hook it into some database to only show you ethically caught fish, organic projects, fair trade products, local products, etc. I work on an app that does this. It's quite amazing how much technology has let us achie
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The eligibility criteria is available here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/future-fund#eligibility
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I never said it was a good thing — of course evidence tampering is utterly unacceptable. The systems here simply hew closely to expected standards of behaviour from institutions, and in any event there are a range of mechanisms to address t
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There was nothing illegal about their request. They shouldn't have done it, but they didn't break any laws in doing so.
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In what way is it "barely accountable"? It's appointed by Member States directly through the European Council (the heads of each Member State who meet quarterly to discuss the EU), who propose nominations, and then confirmed

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