Ms Belal said they would submit another bail application within "a week or two".

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Mr Stephens said the High Court would hear the challenge to the bail decision within the next 48 hours.

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Typically bail hearings wrap up within a morning, legal experts say.

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Arun Gawli, 48, was ordered out of the city within hours of his release on bail from jail, where he was facing charges of murder, extortion and kidnap.

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Mega state funds such as Kentucky and Illinois are so grossly underfunded that their demise is inevitable within a few years, absent a bail-out, and thousands of local public funds are teetering.

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Within hours all pretence of maintaining a statesmanlike consensus over the bail-out of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and HBOS (formed by the merger of Halifax Building Society with Bank of Scotland) had vanished.

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And, commenting on the decision to release the radical Muslim cleric, Abu Qatada, on bail, Mr Grieve said the government had to operate within the law and there was no law in Britain which allowed people to be held in custody indefinitely.

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She said an application for bail was expected to be made on Monday and an application for a reduction in sentence was expected within 10 days.

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