1821st Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based news & legal articles
archive focusing on Law, Lawyers,
Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice issues.
Today's video story: Federal prosecutors released the search warrant application the FBI used that led to the probe into Hillary Clinton's emails, which took place just weeks before the presidential election.
Focus of the day story: Lawyers who meet new standards of transparency over the price and service standards they offer could display a logo to show the public that they meet best practice, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has suggested. Full story - Legal Futures
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Consultant solicitor fined £2,000 after not putting £100 cash payment through firm - Legal Futures: https://t.co/1C0rn6PMxU
- City lobby group on Brexit: Lawyers need access to single market plus clear and sensible transition - Legal Futures: https://t.co/NW5pY2UPQU
- It's not just the small claims limit - solicitors warn over "dangerous" reform of rehabilitation - Legal Futures: https://t.co/AE8cJHv7AQ
- South West law centres set up for-profit legal advice enterprise | Solicitors Journal https://t.co/D4CtohcakP
- Conveyancing Association updates cybercrime protocol | Solicitors Journal https://t.co/DwUGR55vuW
- Lazy insurers have cozied up to policymakers | Solicitors Journal https://t.co/mJCpXUagmX
- Club 21: In pursuit of equality | Solicitors Journal https://t.co/nxf9AoPfbM
- PI reform: Make rehabilitation code compulsory | Solicitors Journal https://t.co/WfRqe9mTdZ
- ABI ‘Scrooges’ launch legal challenge over discount rate review | Solicitors Journal https://t.co/itMCGrer5J
- Judge allows treatment withdrawal for minimally conscious patient | Solicitors Journal https://t.co/u1vKAhxvcH
- Firms face closure in face of whiplash reform and fixed costs review | Solicitors Journal https://t.co/86dQeSJ5s6
- Balfour: Courts are not the forum to rule on a 1917 declaration on Palestine | Law Gazette https://t.co/yR236S4SKu
- Brexit: top global firm seeking to expand – but UK-qualifieds ‘unlikely to be of interest’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/YYg6sYGLaA
- King https://t.co/EYmi6lYNw6
- UK not ‘re-entering EU through back door’, City lawyers tell MPs | Law Gazette https://t.co/DE31tU4brP
- Magistrate sacked for failing to understand legal adviser’s role | Law Gazette https://t.co/wdvfHGO4KY
- Insurers threaten judicial review of damages discount decision | Law Gazette https://t.co/nCJ1vD4K86
- New terms and conditions for judges will hinder diversity – Society | Law Gazette https://t.co/9L0uGR8Oj9
- Conveyancing tax hike on 1 January? Society demands answers | Law Gazette https://t.co/vIgj7vq6zA
- Fine for solicitor who requested cash payments | Law Gazette https://t.co/VfTOEIpJVR
- Brexit: government must safeguard legal sector, says City lobby group | Law Gazette https://t.co/5ePTpp6bia
- Black Wisconsin teacher removed for essay defending Ku Klux Klan #US https://t.co/0KWqpLcGFk
- #Afghan hostage couple decry 'Kafkaesque nightmare' and plead to Obama & Trump #US https://t.co/hxc95LDzLe
- #Indonesia justice: Foreign tourists in Gili island 'walk of shame' https://t.co/CQm0CBKMef
- Kevin Hicks: Boy who vanished 30 years ago was murdered, say police https://t.co/luHkwdgOsm
- Nigel Farage idiotically accuses Jo Cox's widower of supporting extremism https://t.co/CaCxbmQdc3
- Google did not defame man with photos of him linked to criminals, court finds https://t.co/INDQede3gl
- Ian Acheson: ‘If you don’t have safety and control in prisons, you have nothing’ https://t.co/vVkMCDmn0d
- Turn off life support for police officer, judge rules https://t.co/OCl7SEGl2z
- Notorious criminal John "Goldfinger" Palmer was shot six times in a "contract-style" killing, an inquest has heard https://t.co/LVwzWVbqUY
- Human cannonball stunt death boss gets community service https://t.co/F2QgxA2iVw
- Two times Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova 'fortunate to be alive' after suffering hand injury in knife attack https://t.co/8x8aRhwRlP
- PC Paul Briggs: Life support treatment 'should stop' https://t.co/7dFvikGsf1
- Berlin attack: No certainty over man arrested by police #GERMANY https://t.co/Bx8oRhjFo3
- Thorntons provides welcome boost to Dundee food bank - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/sntIBk2VHS
- Terra Firma lends support to kids clothing charity this Christmas - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qukhOwlKfS
- DLA Piper advises HEINEKEN UK on proposed acquisition of 1,900-strong pub portfolio - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/TtbRGDlZt6
- Ghost of Christmas Past makes presence known in Belfast Court of Appeal - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/oNthvRRQFh
- Gillespie Macandrew bolsters land and rural business team with new associate - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/IfJARBG13G
- Law requiring community involvement in local public services comes into force - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SZA3L92OL5
- Sheriff concerned over health board's 'total silence' following death of baby - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yBfoKvCVL3
- First Minister offers proposals to keep Scotland in the Single Market in new paper - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/sVpOf3yDmT
- Appeal against conviction over claim sheriff ‘restricted’ cross-examination of witness refused - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/STawq9bBps
- Trump wins electoral college amid nationwide protests #US https://t.co/4bQcSeOu7X
- High Court rules fracking can go ahead in North Yorkshire https://t.co/lAJYTJnX8p
- The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/eaq0XM9K2A
- Trump and Mexico's richest man meet for 'lovely dinner' at Mar-a-Lago resort: more business for Trump? #US https://t.co/guvrEf9dl0
- Uncollected court fines and surcharges now total £747m, says MoJ https://t.co/xh122Q1hJL
- #RUSSIA bath lotion kills 48 drinkers in Irkutsk https://t.co/uMGEqZBDhs
- Troubled families turnaround claim misleading, say MPs https://t.co/5BCYwVFuED
- BBC Monitoring: MPs raise fears over service's future https://t.co/vime7Qkf1r
- Are we facing a Christmas of Discontent? https://t.co/QoDkvSuawJ
- The deeply Haunting Image of the Assassination of #Russia’s Ambassador to #Turkey https://t.co/kCFgzUN5Ci
- How can I market my firm's success to create new business? - Legal Futures: https://t.co/j1ljcj61sV
- Demand for free legal advice spiralling upwards, charity reports - Legal Futures: https://t.co/bZ4YXC3tf2
- CMA eyes 'transparency mark' for lawyers who are open about prices amid overcharging fears - Legal Futures: https://t.co/l8W3QFTPkA
- 'Dispersed' law firm scoops external capital from top SME investor - Legal Futures: https://t.co/6UOnT7YIDf
- Unmaskings, burkinis and vegan cheese: the alternative ‘women of the year’ awards https://t.co/POTb4ffDN6
- Trump’s illiterate spelling error: an act of Joycean virtuosity or carelessness? https://t.co/zOR2CUY0c2
- Three injured in Islamophobic gun attack on Zurich mosque #SWITZERLAND https://t.co/CvA7voiNl6
- The Guardian view on trade unions: needed as much as ever | Editorial https://t.co/GYUxDbpp8e
- The disastrous decisions behind troubles in prisons and probation https://t.co/DsnootPThg
- Judge cleared of misconduct in light sentencing of Brock Turner #US https://t.co/hNR9HJdMYr
- Judge rules pet dogs cannot be treated as children in #CANADA custody dispute https://t.co/wzm9WNLVRG m prison riot, says Liz Truss https://t.co/zQsEBUa1J7
- Ex-girlfriend murder: Life term for 'frenzied' killer https://t.co/A58VOWAThi
- M1 triple fatal coach crash: Driver Alan Peters is jailed https://t.co/fGsXhVUH3q
- Beach pollution firm Southern Water fined £2m https://t.co/SmPwcs98cK
- Woman guilty of Letchworth casserole dish murder https://t.co/oi3rp53tGj
- The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/AeNPgVpUuN
- RHI: NI First Minister Arlene Foster 'resists quest to build political gallows' https://t.co/bRUsl1xWM9
- Police release CCTV of 'frenzied' stabbing attack in Barking https://t.co/GCuScXGG1R
- Prisoner James Whitlock admits Pentonville jail escape https://t.co/mxArk4w5Uf
- UK-made cluster bombs used in #Yemen, Michael Fallon confirms https://t.co/imUnqD3kFR
- Berlin Breitscheidplatz: Lorry kills nine at Christmas market #GERMANY https://t.co/jCeTbHKC0e
