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22nd September - Law News

Edition 3557: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011  

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story:  A third Russian man has been charged with alleged involvement in the Novichok nerve agent poisonings in Salisbury, England in 2018, which left one woman dead and three people critically ill.  Security sources say Denis Sergeev led the team on the ground, when the nerve agent was used against the former Russian spy Sergei Scripal.  
 
Focus of the Day Story:  The old ‘tap on the shoulder’ system of appointing judges would have yielded better diversity for ethnic minority lawyers than the current system, Labour MP David Lammy has claimed. Full story - Legal Futures
 
Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Covid-19 – when is it automatically unfair to dismiss for health and safety reasons? - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/CwYVyodwi
  • Vos: Lawyers like remote hearings because they earn more | Law Gazette https://t.co/n6Caa69yRK 
  • EU rules on ‘transparent and predictable’ working conditions to be transposed into Irish law | Irish Legal News https://t.co/QHBvRtPwg
  • Court rules claimant was exaggerating but not fundamentally dishonest | Law Gazette https://t.co/V66Lw2EeJO
  • Judge ‘uneasy’ about gardaĆ­ speeding to and from court hearings | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Wc05qjrA
  • Firms offered lower PII premiums for security tech | Law Gazette https://t.co/eEeKkU2JxR
  • Tribunal fines solicitor convicted of dangerous driving - Legal Futures https://t.co/N5qlBGqXOp 
  • Owners could be forced to sell as council approves empty housing policy - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/fOW1FPQJCe 
  • Multi-disciplinary ABS aims to buy professional services firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/SBorf958f
  • Lawyers have paid tribute to a ‘dear and brilliant’ human rights barrister, Jonathan Cooper OBEL, who died suddenly whilst walking in Scotland at the weekend | Law Gazette https://t.co/TuaUNze4of
  • Lammy: 'Tap on the shoulder' better for judicial diversity than JAC - Legal Futures https://t.co/97ddwF4tny
  • Instagram dodges photographers' copyright lawsuit over embedding feature #US https://t.co/TlEbPeYxTM
  • Older people need better safeguards against predatory marriage https://t.co/UG9d6ztNaV
  • Mishcon de Reya ups innovation focus with Taylor Vinters deal - Legal Futures https://t.co/alScyL6tAL
  • Images that show border agents on horseback driving migrants back to a river like cattle have sparked an investigation in the #US https://t.co/azXJPSRwqW
  • Professor Martin Hogg appointed head of NUI Galway School of Law | Irish Legal News https://t.co/hozLkLtbxb 
  • A third #Russian faces charges over his alleged involvement in the 2018 Salisbury poisonings, which left three people critically ill and one dead. Security sources believe Denis Sergeev was the on-the-ground commander in the Novichok attack https://t.co/G7JefwEuJ
  • #Russia was responsible for the killing of Alexander Litvinenko, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found. Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who became a British citizen, was fatally poisoned with radioactive polonium-210 in London in 2006 https://t.co/R1BD8YD4GL 
  • UK staff to gain right to request flexible working from day one https://t.co/AOMKhysMgs
  • My legal life: Imogen Hamblin, Thrive Law - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/FlNRFpwo8A 
  • Strathclyde to lead new study into quality of sentencing data - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/E88AXbpnLX 
  • Climate crisis leaving ‘millions at risk of trafficking and slavery’ https://t.co/A2RCgzORKr
  • Trainee solicitor banned by SRA after tampering with email dates | Law Gazette https://t.co/b9fQKgXIu0
  • India’s most senior judge has said that the use of English in courts should be abandoned and that the wearing of colonial court dress should be discarded - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/zN6mLML7OK
  • Hong Kong, gender identity and Lord Reed | Law Gazette https://t.co/VC2CL6xjHv 
  • #Russia Shooting: Gunman, purported to be a Law student, Kills at Least Six at University https://t.co/7sU1eIgW2R
  • Deported by U.S., #Haitians Are in Shock: ‘I Don’t Know This Country’ https://t.co/zKillOf3D5 
  • Windrush victims launch legal action over compensation delays - Henry Vaughan and Fitzroy Maynard sue Home Office, saying delays have caused them years of stress https://t.co/yKahKZcNy9
  • HMP Styal: My baby died due to errors in prison, says former inmate https://t.co/Xci26nnNxB 
  • Professor Martin Hogg appointed head of NUI Galway School of Law - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/RJyLXgHDOQ 
  • Welsh government launches smacking ban ad campaign before law change | The Guardian https://t.co/0uCkSTHwLU
  • News focus: Data protection reform - a bonfire, or building back better? | Law Gazette https://t.co/fx2JEpbeTu
  • Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has launched an investigation into a data breach involving the email addresses of dozens of Afghan interpreters who worked for British forces https://t.co/Lbs3pckHL
  • Macfadyen Lecture 2021: Judicial independence and the rule of law - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BuAHEw05r
  • Access to justice and digitalisation in universal credit | Law Gazette https://t.co/QC7F4dXO0n 
  • #Poland vows to keep coalmine open despite €500,000-a-day ECJ fine | The Guardian https://t.co/4Nzmitr8UN
  • Law Society sets €300,000 target for 23rd annual Calcutta Run | Irish Legal News https://t.co/dAeJjryibF 
  • Best of the blogs - 18 September 2021 | Law Gazette https://t.co/tbIFu1joRo Sep 21, 2021
  • Tughans grows with double director appointment and new NQs | Irish Legal News https://t.co/0ChKFCE3Lo