Edition 3193: 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 Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) must work “even harder” through its SRA Innovate programme to encourage technology that helps reduce digital exclusion, the regulator’s new executive director for strategy and innovation has said.. Full story - Legal Futures
Today's Highlighted Video Story: Leaders in England, Scotland and Wales announce new restrictions to tackle Covid-19:Mr Johnson spoke to MPs earlier today giving details of new coronavirus restrictions for England - urging people to go back to working from home wherever possible, ordering pubs and restaurants to close at 10pm and bringing in more mask wearing as well as tougher fines for rule breakers.
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- Employment tribunals are at a ‘tipping point’ a leading employment lawyer has warned: the average wait now at 284 days, a 20 percentage point increase on last year’s 237 days https://t.co/MeuCKQonA
- DAC Beachcroft litigation executive disciplined for naming client on Facebook - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/8boQkn93H
- Pubs, cafes and restaurants in Wales will have to shut at 10pm every night under new measures to control the rising rate of coronavirus, BBC Wales understands https://t.co/fK6vclg9h6
- Cult leader with no carpentry experience, who claims to be reincarnation of Jesus arrested in #Russia - Former traffic officer Sergei Torop, AKA Vissarion, arrested in special operation in Siberia https://t.co/MLEBeOQ9n
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- Three crucial requirements of technology any firm needs in order to adapt to a model that, for some, is somewhat worrying: security, collaboration and all-in-one solutions - Legal Futures https://t.co/cyYHZOuv1g
- Republicans have secured the numbers needed to ensure that President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee will face a confirmation vote in the Senate #US https://t.co/HuqlR1aFd
- Law Commission targets smart contracts and digital assets - Legal Futures https://t.co/K1X9oaZGXT
- Mike Dailly applies to take case of disabled man to Supreme Court - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/MClecRntpU
- CJEU: Member states can regulate Airbnb-style short-term lets to combat housing shortages - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/oXfoy68Ew
- ‘Pick-up artist’ wins appeal against convictions for threatening and abusive behaviour - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/bmJrpNlT6
- SRA Innovate “must work even harder” to combat digital exclusion - Legal Futures https://t.co/2CajSqZyM
- He Killed a Transgender Woman in the #Philippines. Why Was He Freed? The pardon of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton by President Rodrigo Duterte is the final chapter in a case that reignited debate over old defense treaties https://t.co/7C0SdKe7r
- Mark Chapman, the man who killed John Lennon, has apologised to the late Beatle's widow, Yoko Ono, 40 years after his death. Chapman shot Lennon four times outside his New York Manhattan apartment as Ono looked on, in 1980 https://t.co/CaTWVNOOxK
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- HMP Whitemoor inmates 'wore fake suicide belts in officer attack' https://t.co/1MrHmo7GFA
- Changes to gender recognition laws ruled out, rejecting calls, backed in a 2018 consultation, for people to be able to change their birth certificates without a medical diagnosis https://t.co/RzZmBCm3O1
- A ban on visiting other people's homes is to be imposed across Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced https://t.co/aSioEs1bKT
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- Coronavirus: What are social distancing and self-isolation rules? https://t.co/UP7IMq5lfR
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- Coronavirus contributed to 1% of all deaths in England and Wales in the second week of this month https://t.co/7OJooIvFU
- Coronavirus: Work from home 'if you can', Michael Gove says https://t.co/xINCp8Oyk7
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- Single Market Bill could 'weaken Scots Grenfell regulations' https://t.co/s2zHCCH1y
- #Japan prioritized 'long-term' strategy over rights in Tiananmen response, documents show | https://t.co/6pLhypbcgG
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- Calls to speed up review of complaints against lawyers practising at #Cyprus courts https://t.co/PGssO0L6S
- The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/sK5pzlQkpx
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- Swindon solicitor Mike Pulsford was jailed for eight years and eight months in 2019 after he admitted molesting six boys and girls while he was volunteering for church group the Crusaders https://t.co/8jgxKx2bWI
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- Nasrin Sotoudeh, #Iranian human rights lawyer has been hospitalized a month after launching a hunger strike seeking better prison conditions and the release of political prisoners https://t.co/prErYElCRZ
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- A barrister has criticised Amazon for selling hats with the slogan "Black Lives Don't Matter", marketed as being elegant and a "nice present" https://t.co/OdZSSJZGVR
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