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Lord Millett, Law Lord who over a long career tackled blatant tax avoidance, the Spycatcher affair, the fall of Maxwell, and child welfare – obituary
In a Lords judgment on a ‘wrongful birth’ he said ‘the law must take the birth of a normal, healthy baby to be a blessing, not a detriment’
Peter Millett (Lord of Appeal in Ordinary) in 1998
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Lord Millett, the former Law Lord, who has died aged 88, was earlier a brilliant Chancery barrister, regarded as one of the Bar’s finest exponents of the law of equity.
But perhaps his most important public service was as father of the so-called Ramsay doctrine on tax avoidance, which as a QC he persuaded the House of Lords to adopt in the eponymous case in 1982.
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A U.K.-based Jewish aid group has issued a fundraising appeal on behalf of Uyghur refugees who have fled oppression in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and relocated to Turkey, where they require financial and medical assistance as they assimilate to their new home.
World Jewish Relief (WJR) said in its appeal that it will use all funds raised to provide food, healthcare access, and psychiatric care to needy Uyghur families who escaped abuses in the XUAR that the U.S. government and several other Western parliaments have designated part of a policy of genocide in the region.