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A lawyer who pinned speeding tickets on her ex-husband and a former client has been found guilty of professional misconduct and struck off. Jinhi Kim was arrested in October 2015 after her law firm in Sydney, Australia was searched by police, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.

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An 18-year-old who drove a tractor around Derry in a bid to pick up women has been fined £50. Anthony Breslin admitted having no L-plates on his tractor during his ultimately unsuccessful jaunt through the city in August.

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A member of the Wu-Tang Clan has launched a copyright suit against a dog-walking company calling itself Woof-Tang Clan. In court papers filed by producer and rapper RZA, the dog-walking company is alleged to have violated the rap group's trademarks.

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An Indonesian man pulled over for speeding avoided a ticket and was given a job after officers noticed his first name meant "Police". Sympathetic cops were stunned to meet 22-year-old construction worker Polisi, whose name is Indonesian for "Police".

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A voyeur who planted a secret camera in a Starbucks toilet has been caught on his own camera. Police have now published the photo of the as-yet unidentified man, who inadvertently took a clear photograph of himself with the camera he planted in the ceiling in the coffee shop's only toilet.

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UK Home Office officials have said they may have to hire Polish and other Eastern European workers to help register EU nationals after Brexit. Immigration lawyers told The Guardian that UK visas and immigration officials had privately admitted at a recent conference that they were struggling to enti

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An accused person in Illinois is not automatically entitled to a new trial if the judge falls asleep during their trial, appeal judges have ruled. The Illinois Appellate Court dismissed an appeal from convicted spree killer Nicholas Sheley, who said the Circuit Court of the 14th Judicial Circuit err

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A couple who wanted to name their baby after their favourite beer have been rebuked by a government agency governing baby names. The Swedish couple were told by the Skatteverket that the name Pilzner was - like its namesake - "unsuitable" for a child.

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A "narcissistic" judge has been caught sending fake letters in the names of local people in support of his own planning applications. Judge Keith Alan Shaw was brought to court and found guilty of committing fraud between 2012 and 2015 in an effort to subvert Scarborough Council's planning processes

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A group of Czech tourists have been arrested in Kazakhstan for wearing the immodest "mankini" popularised by Sacha Baron Cohen's fictional Kazakh film character, Borat. Six tourists posed for photos in the swimsuits in the Kazakh capital, Astana, last week.

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A barrister was forced to surrender their child's marker pens and toy car after court security staff said they were potentially dangerous. The over-zealous security officer at an unspecified court said the barrister "might use the pens for graffiti and the car as a weapon".

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During a witty and insightful speech at the annual WS Society dinner in Edinburgh on Friday night, Lord Neuberger, former president of the UK Supreme Court, told the following joke: An outrageously charging QC, a moderately charging QC and Santa Claus are put in a room with a £50 note on the table.

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The Pope has banned the sale of cigarettes at the Vatican because it is not "legitimate" to profit from something that harms public health. In a statement, the Vatican said Pope Francis had "decided that the Vatican will cease to sell cigarettes to employees as of 2018".

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A man caught hiding bullets in his home told suspicious gardaí he was out of breath and sweating when they arrived because he had been "having a wank". Gardaí, who suspected he was attempting to flee or to hide something, said they did not accept his explanation.

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Police responding to reports of a fight were stunned when a "significant bulge" in the trousers of one of the feuding pair turned out to be a snake. The drunk 19-year-old was stopped by police following reports he was acting aggressively towards another man in Darmstadt, Hesse.

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