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31st January - Law News

Edition 3323: 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: Protests continued in Poland for the third night against a court ruling that makes abortion illegal in almost all cases. Thousands defied coronavirus restrictions to attend rallies in several cities. 

 
Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Hooray for Sir Geoffrey's funnel vision | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZB3vEmRzb
  • UAE to offer citizenship to 'talented' foreigners https://t.co/PlIeu2xqWJ
  • #Japanese woman 'kept mother's body in freezer for 10 years' - Yumi Yoshino, 48, said that she found her mother dead and hid the body 10 years ago because she "didn't want to move out" of the Tokyo home https://t.co/ONw7BNu5dw
  • The UK is applying to join a free trade area made up of 11 Asia and Pacific nations, under its post-Brexit plans https://t.co/O0L0aod2bD 
  • Panel will 'test and challenge' criminal legal aid recommendations | Law Gazette https://t.co/3y7SItdocg
  • #India has suspended mobile internet services in three areas around the capital, Delhi, where farmers are staging a hunger strike in protest at new agriculture laws https://t.co/DqYZwuxILe 
  • Covid shielding extended for 130,000 people in Wales https://t.co/LMhf2YLv
  • Corbyn bid for pre-action disclosure dismissed as ‘fishing’ by court | Law Gazette https://t.co/t5wcpuaR
  • A claim has emerged from Alex Salmond saying a Scottish government adviser spoke of "getting" him in a criminal court case just before its own investigation into harassment claims was deemed unlawful https://t.co/Xj1m1CMmMK
  • The Externalization of the EU’s Southern Border in Light of the EU/Libya Framework Agreement. A lawful Alternative or a Neo-Refoulement Strategy? | Paolo Biondi https://t.co/NsikeZ0wZO
  • Two teenagers have been charged with the murder of a boy who was killed in a gun and knife attack. Keon Lincoln, 15, was attacked by a group of youths on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, on 21 January https://t.co/aW6pZyKuHJ
  • One of the UK's biggest financial trading platforms, IG, has stopped any new trades in GameStop and theatre chain AMC when markets open on Monday https://t.co/bR6zWYNQb0
  • Law firm chief makes £61m by cashing in half his shares | Law Gazette https://t.co/WvilD9G0Ak 
  • Bar misconduct sanctions under review | Law Gazette https://t.co/1pB7hPD0b
  • Freshfields vows to cut business travel | Law Gazette https://t.co/0qwgpBn9R
  • Lawyers rally round top QC under fire for taking Cayman case | Law Gazette https://t.co/Dp59CRu3w
  • 'Full-throated defence': young lawyers try raising public awareness of human rights review | Law Gazette https://t.co/6H8jxsD2y
  • Lateral flow testing to be offered at Manchester court for next four weeks | Law Gazette https://t.co/wJSj7kjb
  • Health bosses have apologised after some clinically extremely vulnerable children were mistakenly sent letters inviting them for a Covid vaccination https://t.co/4ZPEcs0xD
  • A man has been arrested after a racist message was sent to West Bromwich Albion midfielder Romaine Sawyers https://t.co/6HAN7kOZYC
  • Pupillage numbers plunge in response to pandemic | Law Gazette https://t.co/TrGYT0Ciqj
  • Law Society appoints social mobility ambassadors | NLJ https://t.co/KmdN5Z9YHk
  • Ten law firms have been sanctioned for breaches of transparency rules since the start of the year, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has said | NLJ https://t.co/7IS8KSqQx
  • Court rules that detentions after Covid-safe remote mental health evaluations are unlawful https://t.co/ZOXfTYwskI
  • UK funeral directors say they might need to ask bereaved families to agree to pay any fines incurred if a service breaches coronavirus restrictions https://t.co/lODnB22W2r
  • Arlene Foster has called on Boris Johnson to override part of the Brexit agreement to deal with problems in the movement of goods between GB and NI https://t.co/0L6oxdrIpk
  • Legal salaries are likely to remain flat in the UK and Middle East despite the redundancies, market uncertainty and other pandemic-related fallouts of the past year | NLJ https://t.co/nBnVhaKVBm
  • High Court dismisses ‘misconceived’ arguments against European arrest warrants - attempt by five men arrested pursuant to the European arrest warrant to apply for a writ of habeas corpus as the Brexit transition period has ended, has been refused. | NLJ https://t.co/gyRuOPb2BI
  • Obituary: Prof Robert Rennie, much-admired academic and lawyer https://t.co/24kC0vpYQJ
  • Wall Street clearing houses gain access to EU in blow for London - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Kvn9QqcoH
  • Court ruling could limit compensation for PPI claims - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yI81RR6LqQ
  • Presidents of UK law societies to set out Brexit response - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/so0u6yUrx8
  • Unpaid work element of existing community payback orders to be reduced by a third - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/aOJSwns7dH
  • Third night of protests in #Poland after abortion ban takes effect - Thousands join rallies in Warsaw and other cities after delayed ban finally becomes law https://t.co/GduyomYFEW 
  • Family wins lawsuit against NHS trust over woman’s decomposed body - Emily Whelan was feared to have been killed but investigation was hampered by state of corpse https://t.co/X8VrkFGRqx 
  • ‘The perfect target’: #Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy https://t.co/qpaKqjfRVG
  • Napier Barracks: Fire at Covid-hit asylum-seeker site was 'arson' https://t.co/O9yG4hkLek 
  • Judge Eugene Regan nominated for further six years on CJEU bench - Irish Legal News https://t.co/d6c2jeggYs
  • Austrian man leaves 'large amount' to #French village that saved family from Nazis https://t.co/fDvl1kNb72 
  • Black Lives Matter foundation wins Swedish human rights prize https://t.co/xi6Vhwt4c7