Edition 3320: 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: In a country where indigenous people are increasingly displaced and journalists are killed at an alarming rate, a courageous new voice has emerged: Lupita, a Tzotzil-Maya woman at the forefront of a Mexican indigenous movement. Twenty years after Lupita lost her family in the Acteal massacre in southern Mexico, she has become a spokesperson for her people and for a new generation of Mayan activists. She balances the demands of motherhood with her high-stakes efforts to re-educate and restore justice to the world,
Focus of the Day Article: The alarmingly high number of women and children supported by domestic abuse charities ‘barely scratches the surface’, the Court of Appeal has been told on the last day of a groundbreaking case that is expected to result in fresh guidance being issued to family judges. Over the course of three days last week, Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the family division, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Holroyde heard four linked appeals related to family proceedings involving the welfare of children. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Man who held judge up with fake pistol and hoax bomb jailed for six years - Irish Legal News https://t.co/sRu6n8Fiq
- Progress in Irish prisons at risk of being reversed - Irish Legal News https://t.co/lg7TAbJGD
- Footage shows officer 'rammed' off motorbike in Oldbury - A banned driver in a stolen car who drove into a police officer on his motorbike has been detained for three years at a young offender's institute https://t.co/MCxi2QXPJ
- The Legacy Of The ‘Forgotten’ Holocaust: ‘Anti-Roma Racism Is Still Acceptable’ https://t.co/CpHO9ze4
- Scottish mountain hares gain greater legal protection - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/z338UMG0
- Miller Hendry announces trio of promotions in Perth and Dundee - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Bj4exnPGN
- Tenant of burned down storage unit at former turkey farm fails to establish damages claim - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/p7PDqrMNG
- New legal advice clinic offers support to children and young people in care - Irish Legal News https://t.co/bphFat8vb
- LeO "needs external help" to speed up complaints handling - Legal Futures https://t.co/fu44IqHw8
- “Inept” solicitor transferred money in breach of court order - Legal Futures https://t.co/eQ48dXE6v
- Supreme Court to consider costs orders against regulators - Legal Futures https://t.co/ALIJojRyvd
- ABS offers “litigation concession” inside law firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/vKVbGMuuY9
- Supreme Court: Hospital can withhold life-sustaining treatment for critically-injured boy against wishes of parents - Irish Legal News https://t.co/PldkHYaBsH
- Philippa Day: Authorities who dealt with a benefits claim from a single mother, who took a fatal overdose after her payments were cut, made 28 errors in managing her case, a coroner has found https://t.co/Zo1VjnXzN
- Litigation funding does not drive families apart | Law Gazette https://t.co/H0mqpEjdz6
- The Wildlife Trusts is to take legal action against the UK government over its decision to allow a pesticide that is almost entirely banned in the EU https://t.co/gihR8MrCLB
- Thousands have been refused funding to self-isolate. No wonder Covid is rampant https://t.co/8AFrlQTo29
- Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was an FBI informant - Extremist leader repeatedly worked undercover for investigators after his arrest in 2012, former prosecutor and court files reveal #US https://t.co/DkT2wtMtP
- Hospital incursions by Covid deniers putting lives at risk, say health leaders https://t.co/07WVfkzUH
- Here are five ways the government could have avoided 100,000 Covid deaths https://t.co/GPmrrCrDQi
- Garry Kasparov urges UK to impose sanctions on oligarchs close to Putin #Russia https://t.co/zWQWjWDc1W
- Facebook apologises for Plymouth Hoe 'error' https://t.co/NJruhhAf5
- Retention rates high at magic circle firms | Law Gazette https://t.co/u6lA6Rwwcq
- 16-year-old boy sentenced for racially attacking a Singapore student who was told "we don't want your coronavirus in our country". Jonathan Mok was beaten up on Oxford Street last February by a group of boys in an "unprovoked attack" https://t.co/avUAjn6p2s
- People wishing to travel out of the UK will first be required to declare their reason for travel and prove it is essential, the home secretary has said https://t.co/w6BLIVLA5D
- Director threatened to expose opposition witness as benefit cheat | Law Gazette https://t.co/VR2t6WJVN2
- Department store law? Firms given chance to host litigation concessions | Law Gazette https://t.co/2r85o7rM5t
- 'Exempt from disclosure': MoD refuses to reveal public law review submission | Law Gazette https://t.co/bTlREucZ8T
- BORDERS, (IR-)REGULARITY, & ASYLUM: a study of the external dimensions of European approaches to asylum seekers and their irregularity | Julianna Nielsen https://t.co/UibwJ2IEzD
- The limit on a single payment using contactless technology could rise to £100 - more than double the current limit https://t.co/HKTPmmNHYY
- Euston tunnel protesters: HS2 begins eviction https://t.co/MnLvG4418W
- Wrexham vaccine plant evacuated over suspicious package https://t.co/WUJhUgF4ap
- AstraZeneca-EU row escalates over vaccine shortage https://t.co/w2wctQpzt5
- "A
legacy of poor decisions" by the UK before and during the pandemic led
to one of the worst death rates in the world, scientists have said https://t.co/3Yo8gn1wl3
- Schools in England will not be able to open after the half-term break next month but could begin to return from 8 March, the prime minister has said https://t.co/ae11uJrzY
- Barrister suspended for unwanted 'sexual touching' | Law Gazette https://t.co/9lm4Sqpfrr
- Magistrates' courts to be sprayed with ‘antiviral mist’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/svWUi6zKZ3
- #France: Landmark court case seeks compensation for Vietnamese victim of Agent Orange - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BF54lIdJJ2
- #US: Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani faces $1.3bn lawsuit over election claims - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BNwEZiao39
- England: Magistrates’ retirement age to be raised to 75 - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/URoY5hb808
- Stirling Law School partners with Ashurst - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SjuiHpD2tN
- HMRC waives late tax return penalties until end of February - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gVYCq1uAV
- Clyde & Co welcomes 300 to virtual Burns Night - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/U4U1ns6FXS
- UK Covid hotel quarantine system to target travellers from high-risk areas - Priti Patel to announce plans in House of Commons after ministers reject blanket policy https://t.co/2UpYE27B1
- CPS accused of 'systemic illegality' in charging rape cases. Changes in policy since 2016 have led to an overly risk-averse approach, court of appeal hears https://t.co/Qz1NIDrSG
- Four in ten Irish businesses did not update cookie policies last year - Irish Legal News https://t.co/bK743PMQm
- Man held up judge and lawyer in terrifiying siege - Irish Legal News https://t.co/MxReVQu3IL
- Goldman Sachs' chief executive David Solomon will get a $10m (£7.3m) pay cut for the bank's involvement in the 1MDB corruption scandal https://t.co/10wsrPDwz7
- The rise in mediation and remote mediations during Covid-19 restrictions - Irish Legal News https://t.co/j2JhjmXfjm
- Insurers defend covering ransomware payments https://t.co/uyir0t1dIP
- FLAC Traveller Legal Service wins maximum payout for woman discriminated against by hotel - Irish Legal News https://t.co/qsyPkiDzXV
- Labour
is calling for juries to be cut from 12 members to seven, to stem the
"gravest crisis" in the justice system since World War Two https://t.co/ksjXASdrBs
- Victims lose average of £45,000 in investment scams https://t.co/B48ayAciqY
