__________________________________________________________________________________
Focus of the Day Law Article: The Bar Standards Board (BSB) is looking to arrange another round of exams well before December, its chief executive has told Legal Futures, as complaints about the online system mount. Mark Neale said he did not apologise for ensuring the Bar professional training course (BPTC) exams were taken under “rigorous conditions”, but went on: “I do apologise and am sorry to those students who have suffered difficulty or distress because of failings on our part.” Full story - Legal Futures
Today's Highlighted Video Story: A new documentary about Iran reveals how MI6 and the CIA collaborated in the 1953 coup that overthrew the country's first democratically elected leader Mohammed Mossadegh and installed the Shah. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)
And the reason for the coup - to keep control of the oil fields of Persia. The film's been made by the renowned Iranian director Taghi Amirani.
He now wants the British Government to finally admit what it did.
 |
| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- #Slovakia is Challenging China’s Human Rights Record? A small state in Central Europe is emerging as a loud critic of China’s human rights violations https://t.co/EbbQEg6bAH
- Risk of vigilante attacks rising as victims wait for justice amid coronavirus delays https://t.co/2vb5P3a7wZ
- #Dutch plan to tax departing multinationals gains momentum https://t.co/uVWFo54pzS
- The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/NYu3vgO4s4
- Manchester lockdown party house closed for three months https://t.co/xG53qK1e9s
- Is it legal for neighbour to keep 16 dogs in French garden? https://t.co/6PaZyzIttw
- Commonwealth veterans launch legal action in immigration row: Eight Fijian-born soldiers went public five months ago and have yet to receive positive response https://t.co/CMVa2n8XWU
- BA police officer is being investigated after footage emerged that appears to show him restraining a man and saying "chill out or I'll choke you out" https://t.co/vwYqNsW8CH
- Sajid Javid resigned as chancellor back in February 2020 after being told to sack his advisers: Why has the ex-chancellor been allowed to work for JP Morgan? https://t.co/2G52DVneFb
- Soldiers seize #Mali President Ibrahim Boubakar Keïta https://t.co/kvSERVCumN
- A-level and GCSE results: Call for urgent review into grading 'fiasco' https://t.co/ObmS5yvVjd
- Regulatory sandboxes are sprouting everywhere. We can smile at human eagerness to follow a trend | Law Gazette https://t.co/uWV6rdZXYF
- Four more Nightingale courts open | Law Gazette https://t.co/uEncAbNu8M
- Utah to pioneer non-lawyer ownership in US first | Law Gazette https://t.co/F7905qKa80
- Bar students can re-sit 'before December', says regulator | Law Gazette https://t.co/G0WJvjA4SR
- Social justice training contracts up for grabs | Law Gazette https://t.co/YXkF4NzlmB
- Two leading firms have dropped A-level requirements for graduate recruits, saying ‘academic performance is not an accurate predictor of performance in a role’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/aGL5YJZFs
- City firm sets 'improvement measures' to promote BAME lawyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/XeNpfVf6cd
- Payday loan verdict opens the way for more legal action | Law Gazette https://t.co/PQ4P6rg7LJ
- 'Procedural muddle': family case came before 15 judges | Law Gazette https://t.co/5WZ8g5f6l
- #NewZealand man has won an argument against the Law Society over whether his history of four drink driving convictions meant he was not a fit and proper person to be a lawyer https://t.co/WBV9rRjieC
- Davidson Chalmers Stewart hires two lawyers for environment team: Firm recruits renewable energy expert Steven McAllister and former SEPA lawyer Chala McKenna https://t.co/7Yc5gB835A
- Out of Court Settlement: How and Why To Do It https://t.co/nAobbrwoCK
- UK housing market at decade high after COVID-19 bounce back - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/jp23WWHvgq
- MSPs seek views on financial impact of COVID-19 on human rights budget - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/VB4LXw6jSg
- New research raises concerns over use of sexual history in trials - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/TVDWC675RJ
- Moir and Sweeney Litigation expands with new office - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/wtUlHNDYq
- Dallas McMillan Solicitors welcomes new recruits - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/0FSTLnk2yQ
- David Lorimer: Jury centres in cinemas – the darker side - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/LNVSkrOwlN
- Former Rangers director to receive significant damages and apology from Lord Advocate - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/8LbR4M5b4
- Bail Appeal Court moves to virtual proceedings - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/I8rSvkwVNE
- Advocates in favour of remote hearings as temporary measure - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/oyEJxNxHaY
- Outer House allows proof to determine creditors of AWPR construction venture - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/xx1T1afw3W
- PC Andrew Harper: Widow Lissie Harper 'wants real justice' https://t.co/0MW7fN1ydO
- Eat Out to Help Out dishes out 35m meals in two weeks https://t.co/rLuJJkGHn8
- Rafik Hariri tribunal: Guilty verdict over assassination of #Lebanon ex-PM https://t.co/fFlJivrRVg
- #France to make face masks mandatory in most workplaces - BBC News https://t.co/RbvN30770I
- New COVID-19 legislation and guidance: to 22 August | Law & Religion UK https://t.co/099PO9xeSV
- Asylum: may a bogus Christian “convert” be returned to Iran?: MR | Law & Religion UK https://t.co/FkgaDckQO
- Law and religion round-up – 16th August - Organs, singing, weddings and disputes over individual communion cups | Law & Religion UK https://t.co/9cJVM9Z09e
- Who decides on the How and Why of a funeral?: an Australian argument | Law & Religion UK https://t.co/ekVD6TWECY
- Cai Xia, who has been expelled from the elite #China Central Party School, says president’s ‘unchecked power’ has made China ‘the enemy of the world’ https://t.co/TjHtM193i
- Court overturns man's conviction for girlfriend's Bestival drug death https://t.co/aPm7kog2d
- Criminal Dundee doctor still on medical register despite multiple drugs convictions https://t.co/9BBFAkkNJo
- Coronavirus-related legislation: Cytûn’s briefing for churches in Wales | Law & Religion UK https://t.co/vFCk96Zbzo
- The Round Up: CPS performance statistics and rumours of prosecution “targets” - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/xB4gfC2MPb
- Bestival death: Ceon Broughton who gave his girlfriend drugs at a festival and filmed her as she died has had his conviction for manslaughter overturned https://t.co/vdV3lYGO3H
- The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/PCjhsBDW1z
- The chief of the Welsh exam board has said he is "disappointed" about a U-turn in how grades are awarded to A-level and GCSE students this year https://t.co/HI4POxfyk
- Disclosure of information to GP: not "data" under GDPR - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/oD2cYbtcJK
- Three top producers of the Ellen DeGeneres Show have been fired amid allegations of misconduct and sexual harassment: The departures follow investigations by journalists into claims of bullying and intimidation on set https://t.co/D6LpSzXGk
- A senior black police inspector has complained of racial harassment to the Metropolitan Police after being stopped in his car by two white officers https://t.co/QXVvO5uLH
- Solicitors caught in dubious schemes "fail in due diligence" - Legal Futures https://t.co/qdrK0dLylP
- Solicitor wrote cheque to himself from client account - Legal Futures https://t.co/DUSWRsTvUn
- BSB chief aims to arrange exam resits as soon as possible - Legal Futures https://t.co/c7XvlccYNv
- Facial Recognition Technology not "In Accordance with Law" - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/2SZnWCY1Y
- The Weekly Round-up: A-level Results, Facial Recognition, and Special Educational Needs - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/3Wf8g74Ar6
- As an international dispute resolution lawyer, I question if I still believe in justice after Beirut #Lebanon https://t.co/bxi9tHhswd
- How an Atlanta Trial Lawyer Has Continued to Grow a Diverse Law Firm in a Pandemic #US https://t.co/qRqJ20RGCv
- High-flying family lawyer Sunni Joy reveals how she moonlights as a sexual energy healer https://t.co/72IS0X4zZ
- Tories accused of quietly watering down law on farm antibiotics after Brexit https://t.co/uWvomUjjk
- #HongKong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has resigned from an honorary fellowship at a college at Britain's Cambridge University after it questioned her commitment to the protection of human rights and freedom of expression https://t.co/YRjBJ2xWIW
- Law firm Howard Kennedy, which had represented high profile individuals such as Assange, facing multi-million pound legal claim https://t.co/D8HZNoiio
- #China defends detention of Uighur model in Xinjiang https://t.co/gmbzj8aDEy
