Edition 3278: LawNewsIndex is a UK based topical legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.
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Focus of the Day Legal Article: Listed firm DWF has published its ethnicity pay gap for the first time, admitting it is ‘not where it needs to be’ in terms of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) representation at senior levels. According to the firm’s annual pay gap report, BAME employees and partners earn 23% less on average than their white colleagues. The combined ethnicity bonus gap is 22% in mean terms. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
Today's Highlighted Video Story: US President Donald Trump is pushing extensively for the appointment of special counsels to separately investigate his baseless allegations of voter fraud and allegations surrounding Hunter Biden, the son of the President-elect, according to people familiar with the matter.
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- NI: JMK Solicitors boosts firm-wide minimum salary to £20k - Irish Legal News https://t.co/LGPiclZ7A
- Charlie Hebdo blasphemy: Fourteen guilty in 2015 Paris terror attacks trial #France https://t.co/fvWj4aEBbI
- The pandemic’s impact on legal education | Law Gazette https://t.co/GUnFajQRB
- The #US is due to unseal charges against a Libyan man suspected of making the bomb that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988, US media say https://t.co/jAocrWHbrA
- Big firm reveals 23% pay gap between white and BAME staff | Law Gazette https://t.co/PgXFI1bG
- Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah: Air pollution a factor in girl's death, inquest finds https://t.co/LsTQLOLqR
- MI6 agents and informants may be committing crimes in the UK, a watchdog has revealed. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal disclosed the ruling despite government attempts to keep the matter secret https://t.co/AgIgXdsfP
- #Dutch prosecutors have found a hacker did successfully log in to Donald Trump's Twitter account by guessing his password - "MAGA2020!" But they will not be punishing Victor Gevers, who was acting "ethically" https://t.co/E0c6kQoZYt
- An
extra 11,000 positive Covid tests are currently missing from official
figures in Wales, meaning recent cases are significantly higher than has
been reported https://t.co/WY1p82JIz3
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- Commercial chambers to pay for criminal pupillages | Law Gazette https://t.co/CtEqQ7Cjye
- No business interruption decision from Supreme Court until next year | Law Gazette https://t.co/LMwIveIjMR
- ‘Rigorous and demanding’: SRA defends multiple-choice SQE | Law Gazette https://t.co/oOETTJ6OXF
- A
team of 10 international scientists will travel to the Chinese city of
Wuhan next month to investigate the origins of Covid-19, the World
Health Organization (WHO) has said https://t.co/JnGkazHguQ
- Bar instructs lawyers to fight Covid-19 operating hours plan | Law Gazette https://t.co/GlVUnga9eo
- New partner appointments at Balfour and Manson - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3uZGE1iF1f
- Faculty of Advocates’ Christmas Collection a ‘tear-inducing success’ - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/AXqhHDWOp
- Outer House dismisses landfill operator’s action to recover unpaid waste tax from contractor - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mwPJwkGV0L
- Shepherd and Wedderbun raises more than £1,300 for Barnardo’s - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/A1YPAJM1Sy
- The family of one of the four soldiers killed in the Hyde Park bombing in July 1982 has been awarded £715,000 in damages https://t.co/YwmAAvlKA5
- Non-essential shops in Wales will close from the end of trading on Christmas Eve, with the country going into a stay-at-home lockdown four days later https://t.co/2twOVWoCSD
- A family who fled for their lives from a fire that gutted their home are convinced the blaze was caused by a third-party battery power pack bought on eBay https://t.co/A4H9k1xNp
- Criminal solicitors Anna MacKay and Lucy McKenna have joined Scullion LAW - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/OBeebCQ966
- MoJ wants research on improving legal market's competitiveness - Legal Futures https://t.co/YOSLT02YcS
- University bosses eye "revolutionary" impact of SQE - Legal Futures https://t.co/7KUz2RQIzU
- Small law firms should pay economic crime levy, SRA says - Legal Futures https://t.co/r4m31DlgrA
- "Too feminist" - Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo's mocking response after being told she had broken the law by naming too many women to senior posts #France https://t.co/EaeUWOUjY
- PC Andrew Harper: Appeals against killers' sentences rejected https://t.co/aTsBuRHrCR
- The UK Supreme Court lifts ban on Heathrow third runway https://t.co/wOAlEAz3x
- New qualification for Thorntons’ Kirsty Stewart - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/rLoPOZzsDq
- Ireland’s data protection watchdog has imposed a €450,000 fine on Twitter following a landmark inquiry regarding a data breach - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/9YvFIVeV6B
- The latest TheLawMap Wig! https://t.co/IEf6Fi7xtW
- Climate change high on agenda for legal profession - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/b7ksdzy7Kr
- Fireworks regulations to be introduced next year - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/miuXTlwjd8
- NI: Watchdog insists rights 'do not take back seat during emergencies' - Irish Legal News https://t.co/FpxG0aMzRK
- Jeanne Kelly joins British Irish Chamber of Commerce - Irish Legal News https://t.co/oXAfosZEoc
- Credit unions to be allowed to hold virtual AGMs - Irish Legal News https://t.co/hFAh3gOr4c
- Attempts to reform gaming laws in Ireland - Irish Legal News https://t.co/HIr6Iv4xj7
- NI: District judge to receive guidance on 'inappropriate' comments during trial - Irish Legal News https://t.co/Wm6XKboENZ
- NI: Judicial review to argue child should receive funding for criminal compensation claim appeal - Irish Legal News https://t.co/7AY4Wjb8nN
- Clifford Chance reverses pandemic pay cuts for NQs | Law Gazette https://t.co/oXgs6nQEz
- After Windrush, Britain is still deporting people to countries they barely know - Sending Osime Brown to Jamaica, a place he left at the age of four, is a callous act of cruelty https://t.co/PDK9eQ5uXR
- The panel set up to review the Human Rights Act appears unlikely to push for its dismemberment. Instead, the review’s restricted scope may pave the way to consensus | Law Gazette https://t.co/bg5asybWWd
- #France replaces lockdown with evening curfew https://t.co/aYo2Ctq2FI
- LGBT-owned Virginia kilt company is "disgusted" that their yellow kilts were worn by the far-right Proud Boys #US https://t.co/HviL6IuJTp
- Proposals for controversial planning reforms in England have been revised, after new housing targets prompted a backlash amongst many Conservative MPs https://t.co/SQzN0w5GSO
- Lawrie IP celebrates tenth anniversary with turnover growth - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Gzl0u9By1G
