Edition
3187: LawNewsIndex is a UK based legal news & articles archive
since 2011 on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Legislation, Litigation,
Legal Ethics, Human Rights & Social Justice.
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Focus of the Day Law Article: The government’s longest serving justice minister, Lord Keen of Elie
(Richard Keen QC), has resigned in the latest twist to the row over
whether proposed Brexit legislation would break international law. The
Blackstone Chambers barrister said he had 'found it increasingly
difficult to reconcile' his obligations as a lawyer with provisions in
the Internal Market Bill. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
Today's Highlighted Video Story: Australia will soon ban exporting rubbish and recycling overseas if a bill currently before parliament is passed.
The proposed laws are being examined by a Senate committee this week. Some in the industry are worried more waste will end up in landfill.
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- 'Advocating While Black: Navigating Black Identity in the Human Rights Field' - Zoom seminar September 24, 2020 https://t.co/HBc0ub7vw
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- Legal primer: The right to my opinion (Free Speech I) - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/V08nzJB1n
- Cosmopolitan human rights and local transformations: in tension or in tandem? https://t.co/XG6WgN2TW
- A dentist who extracted a patient’s tooth while riding a hoverboard has been sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment on various charges - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/n6Mgp0hvUJ
- Inside the #French police: Police representatives say that worsening public hostility and working conditions are fuelling an epidemic of psychological problems and suicides https://t.co/mJLpES0jGR
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- #Niger human rights defenders still unjustly detained for more than six months https://t.co/w33EcRsSeP
- Asylum seekers' camp: 'No consultation' says Welsh Government - The Penally Army centre in Pembrokeshire is one of several sites being considered by the Home Office https://t.co/iyoneWY67X
- Rhondda Cynon Taf coronavirus lockdown: What are the rules? https://t.co/JhewlNo9NT
- Rise to the occasion to tackle injustice, Bachelet urges Human Rights Council #UnitedNations https://t.co/dDZDGEmWs
- A tribunal has recorded the deposition of prosecution witnesses against Regent Hospital Chairman Mohammad Shahed Karim, in a case filed under the Arms Act at Uttara police station #Bangladesh https://t.co/s1pjDiyuy
- UK government refuses to give evidence to Holyrood on Internal Market Bill - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/IS6CpVZV38
- Oxford graduate crowdfunding to become barrister pledges free tutoring for underprivileged kids for each donation: Mohamed Hussein Iman has spent 300 hours volunteering to help underprivileged students with university admissions and their studies https://t.co/L7gLO112P
- Transportation Appeal Tribunal Unable To Consider Costs After Withdrawal #Canada https://t.co/q9WlRLW3j
- English Court of Appeal refuses appeal of decision to build school near airbase - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/sOW9NIgXu
- Twenty-nine #German police officers whi visited far-right chatrooms, have been suspended for sharing pictures of Adolf Hitler and depictions of refugees in gas chambers on their phones https://t.co/NrVjLmtFB
- Tribunal awards 10 UK homecare workers £10,000 each in back pay - Ruling says travel and waiting time between cases should be treated as working time https://t.co/9kWlBnfpXb
- The Advocate General for Scotland, Lord Keen of Elie QC, has offered his resignation to Prime Minister Boris Johnson following a debacle arising over a government bill - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/PCYM85p2bH
- Lawyer to be named interim competition watchdog chief - Jonathan Scott will take up the position on a temporary basis following Lord Tyrie's departure https://t.co/pzmYFRVsiy
- The back-up driver of an Uber self-driving car that killed a pedestrian has been charged with negligent homicide - Elaine Herzberg, aged 49, was hit by the car as she wheeled a bicycle across the road in Tempe, Arizona, in 2018 #US https://t.co/DCPd9HW9sy
- Diversity Push Barely Budges Corporate Boards to 12.5%, Survey Finds #US https://t.co/vbHHsMTWqQ
- Lamine Diack, the ex-head of athletics' governing body, has been jailed after being found guilty of corruption. The Senegalese, 87, faced corruption and money-laundering charges linked to the Russian doping scandal https://t.co/PyhEr4dyHv
- Officials in Rochester, N.Y., spent months trying to suppress video footage of the police encounter that led to Mr. Prude’s death #US https://t.co/WfTOjUzOM
- Judge Sebastian Prentis made a winding up order at a virtual hearing in the specialist Insolvency and Companies Court, and his ruling is set to bring to an end the history of Macclesfield Town FC, founded in 1874 https://t.co/acRZg4MSwJ
- This time the insurance industry lost after reading the small print - The FCA won a significant legal victory on insurance payouts to small firms hit by Covid-19 https://t.co/K6wbjosJ1k
- Woman makes Scottish legal bid to use late husband's sperm https://t.co/DhVjG8Tj36
- Barbados has announced its intention to remove Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and become a republic - "The time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind," the Caribbean island nation's government said https://t.co/JzpgNnNqXh
- Travel company Tui has promised to clear a backlog of refunds by the end of the month following an investigation by the UK's competition authority https://t.co/etBGN499Us
- There has been a fresh round of violence between Palestinians in Gaza and #Israel, after a ceremony in Washington at which Israel and two Gulf Arab states normalised their relations https://t.co/UuzDxDfbP
- The UK has rescued a British child from Syria as part of efforts to return unaccompanied minors stranded amid the fallout of the Islamic State conflict https://t.co/AvzIxww9og
- A second Welsh county, Rhondda Cynon Taff to go into lockdown, 240,000 people living in Rhondda Cynon Taff will have restrictions imposed on their daily lives https://t.co/Vq94l2Uw2y
- Vulnerable children who require urgent support will "slip out of view" because of the impact of coronavirus, England's children's commissioner has warned https://t.co/FdRvo74BIK
- YouTube hit with UK class action style suit seeking $3BN+ for ‘unlawful’ use of kids’ data https://t.co/i5acfWDoeP
- Government eyes regulating the law's unregulated providers - Legal Futures https://t.co/s0fQTiEowJ
- #China's influence on the global human rights system https://t.co/nLE2iG2aN3
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- Bolton Council shuts down law firm's offices for "flouting" Covid-19 rules - Legal Futures https://t.co/Jo79RAmg6V
- Sexual and violent offenders will serve at least two-thirds of jail terms, rather than half, as part of changes to the criminal justice system in England and Wales https://t.co/B3nmYGelD2
- Nightingale court closes less than a month after it opened | Law Gazette https://t.co/lY3rgOizHn
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- Paul McGarry SC: The Irish legal market can benefit from Brexit - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/QggkHNOxQS
- 'Redundancy floodgates will open' says Unite union https://t.co/UUdNnT1zaD
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