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25th February - Law News

Edition 3348: 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: Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services Richard Colbeck say "I wasn't overly impressed myself" about the communication issues that have emerged since it was announced two aged care residents were given higher-than-prescribed doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. 

 
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 Focus of the Day Article:Research commissioned by the Legal Services Board has found that consumers see customer reviews as ‘key’ to choosing the right lawyer. Interviews and discussions with 69 people, carried out by the group Community Research, found that respondents regarded it harder to choose a provider of legal services than in other sectors. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
 

Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Tomás Mac Thréinfhir BL joins board of uilleann piping body - Irish Legal News https://t.co/jU74qap3H
  • Growth of 'lawtech' could bring down Irish legal costs and boost growth - Irish Legal News https://t.co/6RzOowQ1z
  • Bruce Springsteen fined $500 over drinking charge #US https://t.co/9OtJCOtanE
  • An advertising campaign has been launched to encourage people across the UK to "keep going" and remain at home https://t.co/Ydb9tdjhR
  • High Court: Receiver costs take priority over preferential creditors when winding up a company - Irish Legal News https://t.co/uK89Oa2ItF 
  • Uptick in profits for Harper Macleod in last financial year - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/a7dvpimP2L
  • Caroline Stevenson joins Burness Paull - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ESd168HVx
  • Glasgow sheriff refuses to recuse himself from child relocation case - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/D1Nl0oEIk
  • SQE: we are on the right path | Law Gazette https://t.co/pQ3ZNaiEjq
  • Recommended trainee minimum rises by 1.1% | Law Gazette https://t.co/BZ4u1qwHYU
  • 'Shifty Rental Solutions' in fake crash scam, jury finds | Law Gazette https://t.co/HlYttr8NPU
  • “#Spain’s international image is in tatters and reduced to one of a rogue state”. Harsh criticism from MEP Clara Ponsatí's Scottish lawyer after Tuesday's vote at the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs https://t.co/xXgCdDvmWs
  • Leicester mother with Covid-19 should be allowed to die against her family's wishes, a judge has ruled. The woman, who is in her early 30s, has been in an induced coma since giving birth to a baby boy last month https://t.co/Rsa43HBNJ
  • 'No barrier': magistrates set up LGBT+ group | Law Gazette https://t.co/O9xvL4L81Y
  • Conveyancers set sights on growth after challenging year - Legal Futures https://t.co/9s6xo6je1b 
  • First cohort of graduate solicitor apprentices start work towards SQE - Legal Futures https://t.co/UCVsF3MCmu
  • Solicitor failed to check whether jailed client wanted to sell property - Legal Futures https://t.co/DrWep2208I
  • Sotoudeh: Speak out on Iran executions | Law Gazette https://t.co/zrb2om8fCA
  • ‘Extraordinary’: court hears how claimant won case two years after his death | Law Gazette https://t.co/bX5C3O5GPt
  • A comparative analysis of migration control strategies along the Western and Eastern Mediterranean routes: Sovereign interventions through militarization and deportation | Ozgun Topak and Luna Vives https://t.co/WOeRcJRiPU 
  • Handforth Parish Council could be abolished under boundary review to the dismay of comedy lovers all over the world https://t.co/sff4Ko6v0s
  • Alex Salmond saga 'a crisis of credibility' for Holyrood - what impact could it have on the possibility of Scottish independence politics? https://t.co/umPvR4vAqf 
  • Lammy: 'My race review would go further today' | Law Gazette https://t.co/nhn0f8PMkX 
  • #US Fashion designer Alexander Wang accused of sexual assault https://t.co/mtqtp34VjY
  • Only two Crown courts checked for cell safety | Law Gazette https://t.co/jbMWjNnHD
  • Why is the Justice Secretary so quiet about the malicious prosecution scandal? - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/hx2Bc0JndC 
  • Ghislaine Maxwell offers to give up UK and French citizenship for bail https://t.co/4EbWEM8Rf6
  • A #German court has sentenced a former Syrian intelligence officer to four-and-a-half years in jail for complicity in crimes against humanity. Prosecutors in Koblenz successfully argued that Eyad al-Gharib, 44, had helped to arrest protesters in 2011 https://t.co/oErtlvqyse
  • People with learning disabilities to be prioritised for Covid vaccine https://t.co/vouSH9wYMb 
  • New senators installed at Parliament House ceremony - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ve6j6Y3Waj 
  • Blog: Parental disputes magnified by lockdown - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/S8usSF0ntB 
  • Eddy Winters joins Gilson Gray as business development director - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/MUjWgYlwmH 
  • Melanie Sangster appointed Employment Tribunal judge - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/MnltJjCLW1
  • Major conference to look at civil business in Scotland after Covid - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/dvFziBaq1i 
  • UK racks up nearly £6m legal bill over Chagos Islands - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/z3fw3gvkgz 
  • Plea made to UN over human rights abuses of Indian farmers - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/aFdqfyC3UY
  • CMS and business experts to deliver March ESG series - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Wqxjd1cjgX
  • Mental health charity SAMH has received £1,000 from Thorntons after staff completed a physical virtual challenge https://t.co/1flBi0Y8Db
  • Daniel Prude: New York police officers filmed restraining an unarmed black man until he stopped breathing will not be charged over his death, officials say #US https://t.co/N2gNxwoXC0