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14th January - Law News

Edition 3305: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.   

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 Today's Highlighted Video Story: Ugandans vote tomorrow in a presidential election pitting Yoweri Museveni, who's led the country for 35 years, against the challenger, the singer-turned-politician Bobi Wine. The campaign has been marred by violence against opposition candidates. Wine's supporters have been harassed and imprisoned, and many have lost their lives.

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 Focus of the Day Article: The High Court has ruled that a disciplinary tribunal should hear in full a private prosecution brought against current Law Society president David Greene. Lord Justice Popplewell and Mr Justice Garnham, sitting in Davies v Greene, ruled today that the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal’s decision to strike out the case in September 2019 was flawed and should be overturned.  Full story - The Law Society Gazette 

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Welsh police cancel fine for couple visiting care home - Carol and David Richards from Bridgend travelled seven miles to Porthcawl to visit her mother Decima Minhinnick, 94. Decima is the mother of Wales' celebrated poet Robert Minhinnick https://t.co/TcNNIPVFgD 
  • Enforcement agents may enter homes via video, court decides | Law Gazette https://t.co/vgBdp39Cpr 
  • Gateley weathers lockdown with 9.8% first-half profit rise | Law Gazette https://t.co/KpAwwiBk2n 
  • Barrister and accountant link up to start SRA-regulated firm | Law Gazette https://t.co/SiwZKUXmkv
  • New measures at international firm to help staff through lockdown | Law Gazette https://t.co/4wv6oMjkIJ
  • When a trove of 1,500 artworks hoarded by the son of a Nazi-era art dealer was discovered in 2012, an investigation began to find out how many were looted from Jewish owners https://t.co/YT2UHmBSzn
  • Robert Rennie: An appreciation - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/crU0i4umqp 
  • Tributes have been paid to Professor Robert Rennie, who has passed away following a sudden illness - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/nqpYxs1QPr
  • Scottish creel fishers succeed in challenging rejection of fisheries proposal by Marine Scotland  - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Xol3iQYE6W
  • Solicitor struck off for 'blatant self-interest' over in-law's property | Law Gazette https://t.co/6Dxzdu1YXB
  • 'Lonely, socially distanced' new MR is sworn in | Law Gazette https://t.co/xm9YSeREz
  • Major reform of Mental Health Act will empower individuals to have more control over their treatment and deliver on a key manifesto commitment https://t.co/TWWdlwwgHy 
  • Law Society president to face full SDT hearing | Law Gazette https://t.co/Wlb722DyW2
  • Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers charged with prison officer attack https://t.co/rmt0VSx1n9
  • Covid tests for court users go ahead in 'limited' pilot scheme | Law Gazette https://t.co/axVfasKMOF
  • New year, new rules: what family lawyers need to know post Brexit - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/CJ2MddNJW
  • Macdonald Henderson named in Times Best Law Firm 2021 guide - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/9ggUJ2RkS
  • Bedworth Pokemon player fined for lockdown breach over 14 mile travel https://t.co/6M63RjjWlF
  • Second edition of Evictions in Scotland – out now! - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/LkOkTkB3KT
  • Non-legal businesses fill pandemic income gap for Gateley - Legal Futures https://t.co/v4xJ37J625
  • Law firm recoups 40% of negligence payout from barrister - Legal Futures https://t.co/6SKUD0A71s
  • City dominance of SRA board ends with ABS appointments - Legal Futures https://t.co/29PAE74Sw
  • SDT "wrong" to strike out prosecution of Law Society president - Legal Futures https://t.co/R6R60fhq1d
  • Covid restrictions around takeaway and click and collect services in Scotland are to tighten https://t.co/NmlMIcVFQp
  • Property sector can help re-build UK economy - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/8wlklSkF1d
  • Bruce Willis has admitted to making an "error of judgement" after reportedly being asked to leave a Los Angeles store for refusing to wear a face mask #US https://t.co/wzQrWdoawX
  • A coronavirus vaccine developed by #China's Sinovac has been found to be 50.4% effective in Brazilian clinical trials https://t.co/H3lNdC9hsF
  • Sobering new report says world is failing to grasp the extent of threats posed by biodiversity loss and the climate crisis https://t.co/YO1YslgkUt
  • Man who possessed weapons stash for terrorist purposes jailed - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/evbSdKxxXV
  • Italy 'Ndrangheta group: Hundreds of alleged members of #Italy's most powerful mafia group are set to face justice in the country's biggest organised crime trial in decades https://t.co/R7JwfEBjzH
  • Drill and rap music on trial - increasingly being used as evidence with courts hearing allegations it incites gang rivalries. But some defence lawyers and academics say it stops defendants - often young black men - getting a fair trial https://t.co/RxPHF9FlBb 
  • Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder https://t.co/d9C8J7EWpF
  • The Margaret Taylor Interview: Fiona McKinnon on the gathering legal aid storm - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Q7TUDz5x2I
  • Losing the Right to Have Rights: EU Externalization of Border Control | Martin Lemberg-Pedersen https://t.co/dVnNHjD8Lz
  • Effective Protection or Effective Combat? EU Border Control and North Africa | Martin Lemberg-Pedersen https://t.co/SWNbDQ2SH
  • Joan Bakewell threatens legal action over delays to second Covid vaccine dose https://t.co/m6GAVMBppZ
  • English Covid rules have changed 64 times since March, says barrister - Adam Wagner joins calls for clarity on lockdown restrictions and their enforcement by police https://t.co/9xFXqIlEl0
  • #Egyptian court acquits women jailed for 'inciting debauchery' on TikTok - Haneen Hossam and Mawada al-Adham win appeal over two-year sentence https://t.co/KVFSkaDcDG 
  • Ghislaine Maxwell appeals bail rejection while awaiting trial #US https://t.co/FgcCBHtClc
  • Covid deaths in prisons in England and Wales rise by 50% in a month https://t.co/tqYLJMwmPk 
  • NI: First case of Covid-19 in female prisoner population confirmed - Irish Legal News https://t.co/jYfZjSkL0H
  • Nial Osborough obituary: #Ireland’s greatest legal historian https://t.co/aVt0Yg2lLO 
  • Leak from mother and baby homes inquiry 'has undermined confidence' - Irish Legal News https://t.co/FGioqMDFCU 
  • High Court: Full costs awarded to partially successful applicants in judicial review proceedings - Irish Legal News https://t.co/rst2pq3ybf
  • Lawyer in the news: Edward Cooke, Edward Cooke Family Law - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/WGFkQ800Za
  • My legal life: Sundeep Bhatia, Beaumonde Law Practice - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/G0wXSC3inf
  • NI: Rights watchdog launches judicial review over failure to fund abortion services - Irish Legal News https://t.co/IFFI1W560N
  • Plans have been announced to overhaul the mental health system - with the aim of making it less discriminatory towards black people https://t.co/kVnN1L0CHu
  • Earl of Strathmore admits sex attack at Glamis Castle home https://t.co/XqLGm0jaFJ 
  • Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech #China https://t.co/Rh5ffZ3ngG 
  • Covid: Three Democratic lawmakers test positive after Capitol riot #US https://t.co/E5FyzNa8Xi 
  • Customs staff: Vaccinate us to keep trade flowing https://t.co/pNnsziXwfw
  • New York State Bar Association debates whether to strike Rudy Giuliani off - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/7puNdOt2Lq 
  • Best of the blogs - 09 January 2021 | Law Gazette https://t.co/s1U1Y9oJpE