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Today's Video Focus: Professor Giacomo Grasselli, an Italian government health official, is coordinating the network of intensive care units in Lombardy during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Italy to 'prioritise patients with highest chance of survival' from coronavirus, says doctor.
Focus of the Day Article: Criminal defence solicitors have called for expedited legal aid payments and an extension of the business rate holiday to law firms with contracts to combat the impact of Covid-19. The call for action by the Criminal Law Solicitors Association (CLSA) is one of multiple developments as the legal profession, like the rest of the country, battens down the hatches with the coronavirus set to dominate society and business life for the coming weeks and months. Full story - Legal Futures
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Secret policy change by CPS cut number of rape trials, high court told https://t.co/kio0KIVp3s
- Lawyers alarmed by courts ‘operating normally’ claim | Law Society Gazette https://t.co/szQPOlt1WP
- Social media ad controls in wholesale electoral law reform call | Law Society Gazette https://t.co/RsbWxyn9oj
- Bar exam delay sparks pupillage fears | Law Society Gazette https://t.co/2lsfSeszIw
- Coronavirus: legal trade union threatens action | Law Society Gazette https://t.co/USujPtzZvG
- Coronavirus: SRA won't allow exams to go online | Law Society Gazette https://t.co/DuhrPoVsQk
- Divorce bill must not overlook pensions - Society | Law Society Gazette https://t.co/hgzw2deQ5
- Coronavirus: Family judge imposes emergency measures | Law Society Gazette https://t.co/tTJWitBmOv
- Lawyers secure first known coronavirus High Court order | Law Society Gazette https://t.co/r72nDlbyrB
- Coronavirus: Business as usual 'not realistic' says lord chief justice | Law Society Gazette https://t.co/X4v9FGe5u
- Lawyers alarmed by courts ‘operating normally’ claim | Law Society Gazette https://t.co/yyEXBPBWtC
- Coronavirus: Stop jury trials, says Bar Council | Law Society Gazette https://t.co/GYtZsF2CPH
- The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/gYoUgxRyah
- Beaten, raped and forced to work: why I'm exposing the scandal of #Nigeria’s house girls https://t.co/GKnU1H6MYa
- UK government discloses existence of body monitoring foreign spies https://t.co/NstM44hgeM
- TikTok 'tried to filter out videos from ugly, poor or disabled users' #China https://t.co/hqP6ywLgR
- Erdoğan in talks with European leaders over refugee cash for #Turkey https://t.co/oUVVXaTUjd
- #China-US standoff escalates as Beijing expels major US media staff https://t.co/IPGsZ0RLu2
- Trains scale back manual ticket checks amid coronavirus outbreak https://t.co/g5JCGrfyjy
- Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe freed temporarily from #Iranian prison https://t.co/YQxuNCwsm5
- Housing associations under pressure to offer Covid-19 rent holidays https://t.co/1FqJGsZabs
- Chinese students flee UK after 'maskaphobia' triggered racist attacks https://t.co/5RKBzA1plc
- Van Dyck painting thieves 'may have escaped in boat' https://t.co/EJyv1zEApO
- #Israel enables emergency spy powers https://t.co/7DH42L00xr
- ISIS militants have called on their fellow terrorists to put jihad in Europe on hold due to the coronavirus outbreak https://t.co/li67QY7NLx
- Macfadyen Lecture 2020 rescheduled for November https://t.co/NRSXlZMbPW
- AAB joins Law Society of Scotland accountancy panel https://t.co/mbDNTmaQs
- Stephen McGowan: Guidance on large gatherings in Scotland https://t.co/J0R8SdOlF
- What explains the paradox of Scottish life imprisonment? https://t.co/Q8mzAPxvPg
- COVID-19: SLAB issues guidance for solicitors https://t.co/rLXt25uSrx
- Law commissions recommend overhaul of 'no longer fit for purpose' electoral law https://t.co/N2aycDvuPx
- COVID-19: Jury trials stopped in Scotland from today https://t.co/LpuCr6fqO1
- Domestic abuser loses appeal against ‘unwanted’ non-harassment order https://t.co/4zIpkNp7nT
- Emergency legislation to pass at Westminster unopposed https://t.co/b3N0VwHcSY
- Family hearings at the Court of Appeal will be live-streamed under a joint initiative by the judiciary and government https://t.co/ov9a3i9XLp
- Why Texas Republicans are saying 'no' to all new refugees #US https://t.co/1x3F67vTa8
- Manchester Arena bombing: Hashem Abedi guilty of 22 murders https://t.co/XuDfn1dt5P
- Republican McConnell Has a Request for Veteran Federal Judges: Please Quit while Trump is still president #US https://t.co/yo6dh318lJ
- England bowler Jofra Archer has condemned racist abuse on social media after posting a series of messages he has received https://t.co/lWNuNNpqQP
- UK mobile networks face problems https://t.co/LQ3Zz6XiM7
- Laura Ashley blames coronavirus as it heads for administration https://t.co/dSOuXtaKSE
- Former SNP leader Alex Salmond says there was 'no policy' stopping him working alone with women https://t.co/fHYEy051Kw
- Cinema chains Odeon, Cineworld and Picturehouse are shutting all their UK screens amid the coronavirus pandemic https://t.co/kVVMEAtg95
- #Samoan chief found guilty of enslaving villagers in New Zealand over 25 years https://t.co/9dQVw7zBvt
- UK supermarkets take steps to prevent panic buying and shortages https://t.co/oHgYaTg4hA
- New data, new policy: why UK's coronavirus strategy changed https://t.co/K9UY16IteI
- Courts across the #US halt as New York’s soldier on https://t.co/sz1oNLaz25
- Carphone Warehouse to close all standalone stores at cost of 2,900 jobs https://t.co/tpDxTVW8L
- Plan to extend early prisoner release scheme https://t.co/yo5L3HOwiJ
- Child deaths 'not properly investigated' at top hospital https://t.co/VPfZEJ0AQ
- #HongKong to quarantine all arrivals from abroad https://t.co/2dPQ2TpbmK
- UK to unveil new financial measures to support economy https://t.co/Nmqtoo7bwx
- Legal aid lawyers call for government support over Covid-19 | Legal Futures https://t.co/LWexpmk67c
- SRA rebukes Withers for money laundering training delay | Legal Futures https://t.co/S1ySJt1iaT
- No whiplash rules until May as clock ticks down to launch | Legal Futures https://t.co/4mfueKzI6X
- The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/bFN9Gwn5jO T
- Apple fined record €1.1bn by #French competition regulator https://t.co/1KpUi2FJmH
- Online political ads should be labelled, says Law Commission https://t.co/lhFOFyqW9i
