14th April - Law News

1570th Edition: LawNewsIndex is a UK based Law, Justice, Legislation & Rights related daily news & legal articles archive brought to you by TheLawMap

FOCUS OF THE DAY: Lawyers are increasingly banking on property to fund their retirement plans, new research has shown. New findings from high-net-worth retirement lending adviser Bower Private Clients show that 29 per cent of lawyers are planning to use funds from their home or buy-to-let properties to fund some or all of their retirement plans.. Full story - Solicitors Journal

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Lord Low announces “winding up” of commission | Legal Futures: https://t.co/zSq2NdEPMA 
• Barrister direct access service "growing fast", with bespoke technology set to go live | Legal Futures: https://t.co/IdVAJNVb3N 
• Change afoot at QualitySolicitors as it puts focus on conversion of online leads | Legal Futures: https://t.co/2c08H6qvhh
• New species of Manus Island rat named after detainees in 'solidarity' gesture #AUSTRALIA https://t.co/hNdwulStfE 
• Benefit fraud or tax evasion: row over the Tories’ targets https://t.co/MWTMRUgCYV 
• John McDonnell demands full inquiry into Panama Papers https://t.co/pYmvhl09lj 
• Whittingdale didn't tell PM about relationship with sex worker, No 10 says https://t.co/BKWkJyfOxL 
• Lords limit ministers' powers on council house sales https://t.co/btFI9VLI02 
• Oil industry knew of 'serious' climate concerns more than 45 years ago https://t.co/BP6rYrTlO7 
• Should we scrap benefits and pay everyone £100 a week? https://t.co/WcxDdQ3h0F 
• 'Like entering a prison': #JAPAN's leprosy sufferers sue government for decades of pain https://t.co/ArlP3adjtN 
• Edinburgh council refusing to pay £1.5m PFI charges following school closures https://t.co/p4HmMviSZ3 
• Unaccompanied children as young as six arriving at British ports https://t.co/zSzpVmzi0E 
• UK has 'legal duty' to challenge #Saudi Arabia over Yemen airstrikes https://t.co/jzqkAOQXTh
• New inhabitant: Katy Perry triumphs over nuns in convent lawsuit #US https://t.co/FNaVzX0yFY 
• Mossack Fonseca headquarters raided https://t.co/ZnwZ2igvdk 
• Reed Smith in merger talks https://t.co/1Wro9FFnUN 
• HSF adds disputes team in Germany https://t.co/JaGLsP9sxV
• Names emerge in race for Baker & McKenzie global chair https://t.co/HW696y77KI 
• Macfarlanes makes up six in male-only promotions round https://t.co/1tujGmIOii 
• Led Zeppelin to face trial for Stairway to Heaven https://t.co/pujeanI0LA 
• Law firms boosting marketing investment https://t.co/pZqSixeX5y 
• Paris attacks: Bataclan announces first concerts since November #FRANCE https://t.co/R0h5FhOjIF 
• Tory backbenchers challenge compulsory academy plan https://t.co/btUIBtGPKi 
• #US election: Trump accuses Republican leaders of conspiracy https://t.co/4ueViY46zf
• Rushed timetable for ‘Snoopers’ Charter’ a disgrace, say lawyers | Solicitors Journal https://t.co/jogaZirxYP
• Senior judiciary to get schooled by scientists | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/puZQ7A6ZJJ 
• Lords Committee say momentum of Prevention of Sexual Violence Initiative must not be lost | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/i1Up4WtVaI 
• Brodies triumphs at legal awards in New York | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/X0n7raJK2y 
• Burness Paull appoints leading tax expert | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lgiWXJwGGH 
• Perth law firm is new corporate patron at Black Watch Museum | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/d0kt3tHe1q 
• Georgia executes intellectually disabled man whose lawyer may have slept during trial | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3LyLsxZjNG 
• Scottish Arbitration centre celebrates fifth anniversary | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/d1zfsivUvJ 
• Luxembourg: New General Court judges appointed | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/NRTzwXKLBs 
• Senior Tory calls on government to overhaul internet abuse laws https://t.co/1nPDA3kWB7 
• Windows closing for clergy sex abuse victims to sue Catholic church https://t.co/Y55vHSpdTQ 
• All Saints victim of sexism: 'We were told to go topless on Top of the Pops or be cut from the show' https://t.co/jDtixxcyfu 
• Letting them die: parents refuse medical help for children in the name of Christ https://t.co/q1MsDNp3AS 
• Uber lawsuits timeline: company ordered to pay out $61.9m since 2009 #US https://t.co/Qv6roWsPqb 
• Judges’ reforms threaten the role of lay legal advisers | Owen Bowcott https://t.co/vEN7oodXPX 
• Untangling #Iran's web of sanctions after the nuclear deal https://t.co/G7a1x4nIkl
• Gove’s MoJ has gone to sleep: but solicitors - and their clients - need certainty | Law Gazette https://t.co/oEkPm4Jdat 
• Public access chambers offers fixed-fee debt representation | Law Gazette https://t.co/i94ZJAl0Gd 
• Tribunal reinstates £15k costs order after subject buys house | Law Gazette https://t.co/yzI7VhWlHC 
• Nobody wants a private Land Registry – union | Law Gazette https://t.co/idywJqCr7Z 
• English courts still among most generous on divorce | Law Gazette https://t.co/D4Vx6c0lYM
• Creditors to get nothing from failed crowd-funded CMC | Law Gazette https://t.co/TkYN7UZYgp 
• Online scams 'target Apple customers for richer pickings' https://t.co/dQTg3Hc7or 
• Richard Madeley hails 'Twitterpower' after drone 'flown over garden' https://t.co/ywsu0Ijybo 
• Leeds United employee Lucy Ward wins unfair dismissal case https://t.co/wpZPbRi9CQ
• Lead EU referendum campaigns named https://t.co/dniX96HVxP 
• Little Stoke Parkrun petition backed by thousands https://t.co/pQKZuJIFLD 
• Paris attacks: Spain seizes Coulibaly 'gun supplier' https://t.co/h7DvcgzOs2
• PC Gordon Semple: Man to face trial over death https://t.co/bP7WtgllKo 
• Resettling Syrian refugees in the UK 'to cost more than half a billion pounds' https://t.co/ErJr4Xms9c 
• TheLawMap Wig is out! https://t.co/sQhvQH9bkW
• #Panama papers: Mossack Fonseca headquarters raided https://t.co/Ipk0QsIiQo
• Police seize 5,000 'dangerous dogs' over three years https://t.co/SeSZ6zhyQo 
• #CANADA's 'Black Widow' charged with breaking release terms https://t.co/xtoQGExBTq

Today's video story: Labour has called for Culture Secretary John Whittingdale to withdraw from press regulation decisions after news of his relationship with a sex worker. Four newspapers knew about the relationship, which ended in 2014, but decided not to publish the story. Shadow culture secretary Maria Eagle said it had left him "vulnerable" to pressure from the press. Mr Whittingdale, who says he had not known the woman was a sex worker, said it had not affected his decisions.