Saturday

2nd October - Law News

Edition 3567: 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:  India Supreme Court today lashed out at a farmers' group protesting the three agricultural laws saying they have "strangulated the entire city (Delhi) and blocked highways".


Saturday Conversations on Law
  • New meeting space opens at Belfast’s Law Society House | Irish Legal News https://t.co/l9CHI4bUNN 
  • Manager banned for selling firm’s devices on black market | Law Gazette https://t.co/wTZdrFurwN 
  • Deloitte income grows despite 'challenging markets' | Law Gazette https://t.co/i2A7dsVErg
  • HMRC set to crackdown on furlough fraudsters - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/b0rlHCq6BI 
  • Australia announces new cap on returns for litigation funders | Law Gazette https://t.co/MRENm6asA8
  • Shoosmiths announces managerial roles for Scotland partners - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/L3nRBj9Cpf 
  • North Yorkshire commissioner Philip Allott sparked fury when he said Ms Everard "never should have submitted" to the arrest by her killer and has now apologised for the remark https://t.co/bi5jLY0RC
  • A TV presenter who was hurt while playing the role of a human crash test dummy has been awarded £1.6m in damages after a High Court battle with the BBC. Jeremy Stansfield, 50, said he suffered spine and brain injuries https://t.co/qclmSl4qq
  • Court allows credit hire charges to be set out in solicitor’s email | Law Gazette https://t.co/Le6nKNiKgs
  • BHSM appoints Keith Doyle as senior associate in commercial real estate | Irish Legal News https://t.co/iBgGQYe8Mi
  • 'Negligent' London firm defeats £12m claim for lack of causation - Legal Futures https://t.co/hCgS83IaGD
  • Lawyers praised for role in Everard murder case | Law Gazette https://t.co/P8pw0Jk4IO
  • Solicitor's error delayed case by a year - Legal Futures https://t.co/UTW4jSLbc
  • #French ex-officer François Vérove's DNA ends 35-year murder hunt - for decades the crimes of a notorious serial killer have haunted the Paris crime squad https://t.co/QoCODsnuUQ
  • Wayne Couzens is believed to have been in a WhatsApp group with five police officers who are being investigated for gross misconduct. The officers allegedly shared "discriminatory" messages - including misogynistic content https://t.co/yu0APrryRq
  • Owner of racehorse found not liable for injury to farmhand after riding accident on Fife farm - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/XaGiTb7vQC
  • Nine people have been charged with the abuse of patients with learning difficulties at a specialist hospital in County Durham https://t.co/z9TaFs2DcW
  • A really quick lunch of honey sautéed sweet potato and carrot, broccoli cooked with lemon juice, Stilton and almonds salad, plus a peppered runny egg for protein. https://t.co/g1CyufUYp
  • Litigation analytics firm turns focus on IP - Legal Futures https://t.co/ITzwcQ6D1o 
  • Raab admits court delays 'unacceptable' as backlog reaches record high | Law Gazette https://t.co/86UlQrCSaD
  • SRA bans non-solicitors for theft, fabrication and forgery - Legal Futures https://t.co/HVlJbT7MMN
  • Judges criticise Met police after woman wins spy cop case - Tribunal rules in favour of Kate Wilson over breach of human rights, citing ‘lamentable failings’ https://t.co/na9sVXhxr
  • Hybrid working – A rise or fall in future claims? - Legal Futures https://t.co/FfW70EuCoh
  • Hundreds more SMEs joins legal action against Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Ec2pP3fVSJ 
  • Ofgem prepares for looming failure of a leading energy supplier https://t.co/cOVMyf69oS
  • Attorney General to oversee ‘unprecedented’ review of planning laws | Irish Legal News https://t.co/wYADWkbV7a 
  • The parents of a teenager who died after an allergic reaction to a Pret A Manger baguette have welcomed the introduction of a UK law in her name https://t.co/wvcvINzcMt
  • Sarah Everard’s killer might have been identified as threat sooner, police admit - Details of indecent exposure claims emerge as ex-Met officer Wayne Couzens is given whole-life sentence https://t.co/jZWrYChZV3
  • Talks to resume on devolving justice to Wales | Law Gazette https://t.co/SSIS2btL3I 
  • A #Spanish judge has shocked women's rights groups by dismissing a case that involved women being secretly filmed urinating in public and the videos then being posted on porn websites https://t.co/6BOna54hrh
  • Wales to become first UK nation to make Black, Asian and ethnic history mandatory on school curriculum https://t.co/yhRuNjxoCp 
  • #Australia will reopen its international border from November, giving long-awaited freedoms to vaccinated citizens and their relatives https://t.co/5FC2Em9YjR
  • People stopped by a lone plain-clothes officer must challenge their legitimacy, the Met Police says, as it seeks to reassure women after the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer https://t.co/XzFGlI9J8
  • Burness Paull partners with groundbreaking rewilding charity - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/sCVXJcC6jh
  • Former Nazi concentration camp secretary, 96, faces trial - Irmgard Furchner faces charges of aiding and abetting the murder of thousands of prisoners at Stutthof #Germany https://t.co/E09WclLVEx
  • What are whole-life orders and which killers have received them? Prisoners in England and Wales are handed such sentences for the most serious cases of murder https://t.co/OK4SbZqDFr
  • Problems have been reported with Scotland's Covid vaccine passport app, just hours after its launch https://t.co/o0n9F3WXcA
  • More rape trials to allow pre-recorded evidence | Law Gazette https://t.co/pF4yKoim1z
  • More PI consolidation as Minster Law buys Irwin Mitchell's fast-track work - Legal Futures https://t.co/PtUDRPZjqd
  • Scottish government’s delay into holding child abuse inquiry ‘woeful and wholly avoidable’ - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/MKUZdvAEUy
  • High Court holds clients in contempt for failing to pay solicitors £2.3m - Legal Futures https://t.co/Tf8EsEN8Ud
  • Britney Spears: after her father’s removal, what next for the conservatorship? #US https://t.co/HaaTwKEWjb 
  • Dominic Raab ‘open-minded’ about allowing asylum seekers to work in UK: Justice secretary says move could help people waiting for claims to be processed to make a contribution https://t.co/MYvXuySbg
  • Epic Dechert trial ends with accusations of lies, dishonesty and greed | Law Gazette https://t.co/vnudbElPT2
  • Judges can rely on solicitors’ emails to assess credit hire losses - Legal Futures https://t.co/0O66mXFVB6
  • Talbots hires accountant CEO to drive growth | Law Gazette https://t.co/jdTRZIp66E
  • Solicitor misled own relatives about their conveyancing fees - Legal Futures https://t.co/s3pCWhk3FI
  • ICC turns focus to Afghanistan and away from US - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/GnagusFeek 
  • Female police officers fear reporting male colleagues as they worry they will be abandoned if they need help on duty, says a former senior officer https://t.co/Bjk1Z9eb7j