Inheritance

Should parents bequeath anything for their children? Even if you believe parents should have the legal freedom to decide what to do with their wealth, does bequeathing serve a positive social function? Discuss.

Inner London Is The Richest EU Area

"Inner London is the richest region in the EU's 27 countries, surpassing Luxembourg, Brussels, Hamburg and Ile-de-France, new figures from Eurostat showed yesterday. The EU's statistical office said that GDP per inhabitant in inner London in 2005 was more than three times the EU average or 303% - compared with the lowest of 24% in north-eastern Romania. Inner London traditionally ranks behind Frankfurt and Paris as Europe's richest city but Eurostat's figures, expressed in purchasing power, put it ahead of Luxembourg (264% of the average), Brussels (241%), Hamburg (202%), Vienna (178%) and the Ile de France, including the French capital (173%)."

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Five Muslim Students Win UK Terror Appeal

This is the difference between the West and the Rest (BBC)

--How It All Began (BBC), Q&A (BBC), and The Letter (Times)
--Sura Al Baqarah 2:216 and Sura At Tawbah 9:24 [English Translations]
--Sura Al Baqarah (Wikipedia) and Sura At Tawbah (Wikipedia)
--Terrorism Act 2000 (Wikipedia), Terrorism Act 2000 (Wiki CrimeLine UK) and Section 57 (UK Statute Law Database)
--Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips (Wikipedia)

This is the beauty of British law. One court's jury pronounced the five students guilty and they were sentenced to jail. The convicted students appealed to a higher court (Court of Appeal) and succeeded in overturning the earlier decision. Not only that, the judges said the existing law in question needed to be curtailed from its current form. As a result, the government now has seven days to appeal the latest decision in the land's highest court. Could this have happened in any Muslim country for a group of non-Muslim students? No, I think not.

Gary Slapper's 20 Favourite Weirdest Legal Cases

From the man who sued God to the man who sued TV for making his wife fat (Times)

OTHER GOODIES:
-The World's Strangest Laws (Times)
-Weirdest Workplace Disputes (Times)