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30th November - Law News

Edition 3626: 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: Anti-money laundering for compliance professionals (Compliance Officers Conference 2021), an online edition.


Focus of the Day Story: Mandatory vaccination for care home workers not unlawful nor in breach of ECHR. Peters & Anor, R (On the application of) the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care & Anor [2021] EWHC 3182 (Admin), 2 November 2021. This was a renewed application by the claimants for permission to proceed with a judicial review challenge to the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021, which requires a registered person who runs a regulated activity in a care home to ensure that any person entering the premises has been vaccinated, unless for clinical reasons that person is exempt.  Full story - UK Human Rights Blog 

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • RPC offers £100k in free legal advice to ESG start-ups - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Kxxal45cRe 
  • History will not judge us by our highways, but how well we preserve the Constitutional idea of India: Justice Gautam Patel | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/gnV9li00eY 
  • Australian firm which claims to have a database of more than 10 billion facial images is facing a potential £17m fine over its handling of personal data in the UK https://t.co/Ex4mrI028a 
  • Former Thomson Reuters vice president takes top role at BARBRI - Legal Cheek https://t.co/YuHgHoOeYM 
  • Drivers warned they can be fined £5,000 for wearing boots, winter coats, Christmas jumpers and sparkles https://t.co/4GZmUhlphm 
  • Since Independence we have travelled to Mars, but legal system remains the same: Justice AM Khanwilkar | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/1J9bbWZmkO 
  • Was transfer of 34 Judges in September necessary? Retd Justice Madan Lokur asks | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/xnnINsKFps 
  • Covid booster jabs are to be offered to all over-18s to help stop a potential wave driven by the new variant Omicron https://t.co/DvUANkcLKH 
  • Authorities in China recaptured a #NorthKorean man, identified by his Chinese name Zhu Xianjian, after a 40 day manhunt https://t.co/YGWqKZGnXr 
  • The role energy lawyers play in the push towards a greener planet - Legal Cheek https://t.co/i5wFFYWFNb 
  • Was transfer of 34 Judges in September necessary? Retd Justice Madan Lokur asks | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/xnnINt2gO2 
  • Allahabad High Court grants bail to Sharjeel Imam in sedition case filed in Aligarh | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/h4ATaB6e4y 
  • Barristers anger at Justice Sec’s selfie with roller-skating Xmas pud - Legal Cheek https://t.co/cfEKIW3uIx 
  • MPs should be banned from providing paid parliamentary advice or consultancy services, a report from the MPs' standards committee has proposed. It comes after the case of former MP Owen Paterson triggered concern about MPs lobbying or holding second jobs https://t.co/RVRNcHe2WH
  • UK’s ‘double talk’ on Channel crisis must stop, says French interior minister: Gérald Darmanin says UK ministers must stop saying one thing in private while insulting his country in public https://t.co/W8cLZCTsQZ
  • Since Independence we have travelled to Mars, but legal system remains the same: Justice AM Khanwilkar | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/1J9bbWHLtg 
  • Online legal services pioneer LandLord Law celebrates landmark anniversary - Legal Futures https://t.co/sY2BZdajoh 
  • English universities risk breaking law over offer withdrawals, say ministers: Regulators push universities to remove oversubscription loopholes after surge in higher A-level grades https://t.co/kWY7x3FcvY
  • Fried Frank ups trainee pay to £55-£60k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/de8a0YNZiL 
  • Ex-barrister wins appeal over first-ever life sentence for perverting justice - Legal Futures https://t.co/wu9bzZDCR7 
  • Victims of sexual violence let down by UK asylum system, report says: Study calls on Home Office to integrate gender and trauma sensitivity into asylum system https://t.co/7eaGSbfUhN 
  • Protégé: What it takes for new lawyers to make it into criminal law - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/rYC8Ivz7wC
  • Lawyers turn to romcoms in fight for rule of law in #Poland - Instead of drafting legal papers, award-winning group make short films intended to explain assault on judiciary https://t.co/zcAGvFNDbR 
  • Law firm and lawyer fined over schemes that avoided £3m in SDLT - Legal Futures https://t.co/AgGEuQPPlo 
  • How will #Barbados move on as the Queen is removed as head of state? https://t.co/Ta48uppIol 
  • Stratage Law Partners' Amit Manubarwala joins Vertices Partners as senior member and Partner | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/6EBaD54NO8
  • IBA report links wellbeing to equality and diversity - Legal Futures https://t.co/mRCosUXgPk 
  • #Dutch police say they have detained a couple who escaped from a Covid-quarantine hotel. The arrests were made on a plane in Amsterdam's Schiphol airport just before it departed to Spain on Sunday https://t.co/bBzSo5Gk91 
  • Six cases of the new Covid Omicron variant have been identified in Scotland. Some of the people identified have no travel history and have caught the virus variant in the community https://t.co/jqwd7fVxoS
  • Channel disaster: The last time Rizgar Hussein spoke to his daughter Hadia it was late on Tuesday night in Iraq. She called him from northern France to say she was about to board a boat with her mother, sister and brother https://t.co/3d6CEnNzXT
  • British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is due to go on trial in New York City on sex trafficking and other charges. She is expected to challenge claims she groomed underage girls for convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein for sexual abuse https://t.co/oec1ZmUlUk 
  • Whose Book is it Anyway? A View from Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity | Dr M E E Swijghuisen Reigersberg https://t.co/FdjHwxFHWm
  • Freshfields launches fintech-focused virtual work experience programme - Legal Cheek https://t.co/K7eVH2Yc4y
  • A ‘new era’ for litigators? - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/beCXJqiiMZ
  • Gujarat High Court issues notice in plea challenging 50 years minimum age for NCLT technical members | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/rRYCzI8DHw
  • What the City of London has to offer trainee solicitors - Legal Cheek https://t.co/CBt0hHtbdD 
  • BCLP expands solicitor apprenticeship offering to Southampton - Legal Cheek https://t.co/f8aE4q28zE
  • Michael Cohen: prosecutors could ‘indict Trump tomorrow’ if they wanted - New York investigation of Trump Organization is one of a number of sources of legal jeopardy for the former president #US https://t.co/pl4bo4nsdK
  • Deepcut deaths: army ‘treating victims’ families with contempt’: Pte Sean Benton’s sister says MoD failed to honour pledge to tackle bullying at barracks https://t.co/wopjP1qtRx 
  • Sentences must be decided by the judges https://t.co/0y3Tzah6ow 
  • Boy, 14, charged with murder of Ava White in Liverpool - The 12-year-old suffered ‘catastrophic injuries’ after attending city’s Christmas lights switch-on on Thursday https://t.co/uYetYxOvYP