Saturday

23rd January - Law News

Edition 3315: 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: Ahead of India Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit, the police resorted to lathi charge on activists of the All Assam Students' Union (AASU) who took out a rally in Tezpur on Friday to protest the central government's controversial citizenship law. The police detained several AASU activists on Friday in different districts of Assam during the demonstrations against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) which saw protesters hold torch-light rallies across the state.


Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Mr Justice Woulfe to hear Supreme Court cases next month - Irish Legal News https://t.co/1rY5VNQ8A
  • Preliminary trial hearings to become law by summer - Irish Legal News https://t.co/jNfcavgoA
  • Throughout the pandemic, the impact on disabled people has been largely overlooked | Law Gazette https://t.co/z2NAvwqCM
  • Appeal blocked over ‘informed consent’ for solicitor’s £3.6m fees | Law Gazette https://t.co/Ar5n2dhK
  • QC instructed for Hong Kong prosecution steps down | Law Gazette https://t.co/XyEAaLwM
  • Email attachments not covered by legal privilege, court clarifies | Law Gazette https://t.co/Iw4QjVkMt
  • A funeral director has been fined £10,000 after police were called to a funeral with close to 150 people in attendance https://t.co/97sIWTMv
  • Files stolen from environmental regulator during cyber attack published online - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/WtXG46Icb
  • Legal battle to hold independence referendum begins - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/dOkK1Atpw
  • Aberdeen IT firm successfully challenges dismissal of its complaints made against solicitors   - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lJEdkWcBa
  • City watchdog plans fee cap for claims management companies | Law Gazette https://t.co/fZBzPecB3
  • Online option now ‘default’ for Wales courts | Law Gazette https://t.co/htg1iLeCC
  • Guise accuses client of faking emails in ‘dishonest’ transfers case | Law Gazette https://t.co/soeewwHGH
  • No plans for universal £500 self-isolation payment, No 10 says https://t.co/BF5YRN3O
  • #Russian police have detained close aides of the jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, whose fans have flooded social media with calls to rally in support of him on Saturday https://t.co/Lfpr1jh8g
  • SRA blitz continues on firms breaching transparency rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/lUKkgMds
  • Trump impeachment: Senate trial poised to start next week #US https://t.co/oHTmfWzM5
  • Will this be the Year of Lawtech? - Legal Futures https://t.co/QwsVlYC4M
  • Barristers take on debt and other work to survive pandemic - Legal Futures https://t.co/HOpRB077P
  • Solicitor allowed use of client account as £4.6m banking facility - Legal Futures https://t.co/33HikIebM
  • 'Professionally embarrassed' lawyers wrong to withdraw during murder trial - Legal Futures https://t.co/g3UhKkMxI
  • Nominations sought for Law Society honorary membership - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/9Bwmqaq1k
  • Essex lorry deaths: Men jailed for killing 39 migrants in trailer https://t.co/o0gXyVVrC
  • Andrew McConnell promoted to director at DWF - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/kIHFaHvif
  • Cameron House: A hotel fire which claimed the lives of two men started after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard containing kindling and newspaper https://t.co/l91EhYNiZV
  • Nine crofters to benefit from funding - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qI0EsUotlp
  • Netflix paid just £3.2m in tax on £940m of UK subscription revenue https://t.co/LWodZpu4pB 
  • Johnson raises fears of lockdown in England continuing into summertime - No 10 wary of talking about easing restrictions as infection rate remains high https://t.co/CCXGvit4
  • Judge's remarks made mother 'fearful' for herself and her child, hearing told - Barrister urges landmark appeal hearing for courts in England and Wales to set aside decision that father should be allowed contact with child https://t.co/RVZ8w9fbp
  • Peer predicts China will sack British judges on Hong Kong’s highest court - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/QXHhMPYpt
  • Our justice system is in crisis, so why not abolish jury trials? With a huge backlog of cases due to Covid, it’s a chance to reform archaic and irrelevant court rituals https://t.co/14VjkqnFD
  • Handsworth murder probe: A 15-year-old boy has died after being attacked in a residential street by a group of youths "armed with knives" https://t.co/eU2ipx4nY
  • 400-person wedding party in Stamford Hill broken up by police, guests fled from the Charedi strictly Orthodox Jewish school when officers arrived https://t.co/m4RgsuW0J
  • Justice Committee raises concerns over Domestic Abuse Bill - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/de15VB9E
  • No implied term of compliance with building and fire safety standards in lease of a storage unit - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/40qft9IUQ
  • Many Scots lawyers would like to see the salutation ‘Dear Sirs’ dropped from usage in favour of others that recognise that not all lawyers are men - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/LNjHPyGixL 
  • Morton Fraser introduces success fee arrangements for commercial litigation - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BsVazz5l0
  • Man who secretly removed bank book from dead father’s home fails to have brother removed as executor of estate - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/O7Sqvg394
  • Covid: £800 house party fines to be introduced in England https://t.co/hSixADL7i
  • Call for evidence: The Government’s Independent Human Rights Act Review - Committees - UK Parliament https://t.co/ltftcrjye
  • Mitch McConnell proposes delaying Trump's impeachment trial #US https://t.co/kSdDYrAi3
  • #Canada’s governor general resigns after report finds workplace harassment https://t.co/DSGVgSwUhs
  • Crisps lorry held up for two days by Northern Irish Brexit checks, MPs told https://t.co/3uceivC4
  • Rudy Giuliani: lawyers call for Trump's personal attorney to lose law licence - Giuliani criticised for making false claims about election fraud and calling for ‘trial by combat’ before Capitol attack https://t.co/oRNkh5jU0
  • NI: Attackers of police and ambulance staff could face stiffer sentences - Irish Legal News https://t.co/WZLbZDqv
  • Jeff Katz obituary - Corporate investigator who rejected dubious tactics and agents to shine a light on foul play https://t.co/gVyPiV3grM
  • How Isaiah survived #Australia's juvenile justice system https://t.co/F0kKEwlZs
  • Jesuit order in #Spain apologises for decades of sexual abuse by members https://t.co/qLE2UzKNe
  • NSW and South #Australia back foreign interference laws against high court challenge https://t.co/yEkUeYBZL
  • #Russia committed human rights violation in Georgia war, ECHR rules https://t.co/1Nz0wQA3B
  • Google has threatened to remove its search engine from #Australia over the nation's attempt to make the tech giant share royalties with news publishers https://t.co/qi5YKxdwu
  • Covid in Scotland: More than 400 care homes investigated over deaths https://t.co/OWuEEvm5dz 
  • Anyone who tests positive for Covid-19 in England could be paid £500 to self-isolate under proposals to be discussed by ministers https://t.co/BF5YRN3OKv
  • Dr David Kenny: Time to admit the government's legal advice on adoption is wrong - Irish Legal News https://t.co/PCEK9lSwW
  • Judicial appointments bill will not skip pre-legislative scrutiny - Irish Legal News https://t.co/DtJfE1lm7z
  • Police arrest 320 dangerous UK child sex offenders https://t.co/sZH6onwhvo
  • Updating the Law Society Council | Law Gazette https://t.co/WG3TF5ldTs