Edition 3369: 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: Hundreds of Muslim groups are boycotting the review of the government's anti-radicalisation 'Prevent' scheme, over concerns about its chairman William Shawcross, who's been criticised over previous remarks he made about Islam
Focus of the Day Article: The Solicitors Regulation Authority has been told to pay its costs for a bungled prosecution of a prominent Hong Kong lawyer and politician. Junius Ho Kwan-yiu was cleared of all allegations by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal following a five-day hearing in December. The allegations related to comments made in Cantonese during and after a public meeting in Hong Kong. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Charity calls for new measures to stop online scams: Money and Mental Health Policy Institute says people with mental health problems at risk to falling victim to fraud https://t.co/TjpZmbQM9R
- Grisly Killing in Syria Spawns Legal Case Against# Russian Mercenaries https://t.co/2DdpqO6xT
- Piers Morgan's comments about the Duchess of Sussex on Good Morning Britain have attracted a record number of complaints to TV regulator Ofcom https://t.co/0lOiX7VyXd
- Uber may face further legal challenge to settle drivers' hours - Union says taxi app firm will force workers to take new cases to court despite success with wage claim https://t.co/31qPnWDwb
- Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, has said that if Covid vaccine supplies in Europe do not improve, the EU "will reflect whether exports to countries who have higher vaccination rates than us are still proportionate" https://t.co/Dx1L1CoayN
- Third of remand prisoners in England being held beyond legal time limit for trials https://t.co/gIsFGYqg7r
- Trial date set for City brothers charged with fraud | Law Gazette https://t.co/Kk3UPcGkB
- A second post-mortem examination is being carried out on Sarah Everard's body after the first proved inconclusive, police have said https://t.co/iLDoBbzYsz
- St Patrick's Day: Police clear crowds at Belfast's Botanic Gardens https://t.co/HTqmz7tGA
- Police to record crimes motivated by sex or gender on 'experimental basis' https://t.co/Asdp9qm1gT
- ‘Marching for Justice’: Thousands of #Australians Protests Sexual Violence https://t.co/KRA0PueNn
- Historical slavery and the Law Society | Law Gazette https://t.co/aeljoIgENg
- Incorporation of UNCRC into Scots law imminent - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/VP2fpmXdyt
- Football's child sex abuse scandal: Sheldon review finds 'institutional failings' https://t.co/yhxXn7Eboq
- Two Are Charged With Assault on Officer Who Died After Capitol Riot #US https://t.co/lS7w8f1ywq
- Police in the #US state of Georgia have identified four of the eight people who were killed in mass shootings at three massage parlours in the Atlanta area https://t.co/uJjslyB4FT
- A
digital certificate to kick-start foreign travel should be given to
citizens across the EU "without discrimination", officials say https://t.co/Ov4C2saM7z
- A former police chief has said she would think "very carefully" about reporting a crime committed against her because of how she would be "judged" https://t.co/bdLdAN5aWW
- People aged 50 and over in England are now being invited to book their appointment for a Covid vaccine https://t.co/tS8SEysMCl
- Blackadders team raises funds for Comic Relief - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/GAW7SslqBo
- AstraZeneca Concerns Throw Europe’s Vaccine Rollout Into Deeper Disarray https://t.co/Fw8cRAM60
- Former government minister takes helm at costs lawyer regulator - Legal Futures https://t.co/xk4k9VdByJ
- Free seminar on cladding crisis this week - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/dnQ5NecH6c
- MoJ: 2021 is set to be a "big year" for legal aid - Legal Futures https://t.co/QyY1aSlEd
- 'Divisive nonsense': Labour to vote against police bill | Law Gazette https://t.co/nB9jvZDT
- Leading injury firm sold on five years after last acquisition - Legal Futures https://t.co/RmrJM6kzm8
- Spain to trial four-day working week in pilot project - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lI1684ecAV
- LeO set to receive £5 more per lawyer but told investment must now deliver - Legal Futures https://t.co/kur3qfWH32
- MIGRATION AND THE RULE OF (HUMAN RIGHTS) LAW: TWO 'CRISES' LOOKING IN THE SAME MIRROR | Francesco Luigi Gatta https://t.co/sX4poJKc5S
- Eight people, many of them women of Asian descent, have been killed in shootings at spas in the US state of Georgia. Police said the shootings took place at a massage parlour in Acworth, a suburb north of Atlanta #US https://t.co/KsvgmuJpjb
- A 50-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the indecent assault and murder of Stuart Lubbock at the home of Michael Barrymore https://t.co/lePeo2uyM
- Energy customers set for refunds when direct debits are too high https://t.co/CqZQSVMAJb
- SRA to bear £65k costs of bungled Hong Kong prosecution | Law Gazette https://t.co/FV0WSmPA8P
- DWF advises digital learning business on acquisition to expand EU footprint - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ygyaVczh3y
- Ombudsman to get extra £1.66m - but faces axe if standards don’t improve | Law Gazette https://t.co/Eauraepktd
- Children’s Commissioner predicts radical change - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/iZDhJvUATd
- Prolific burglars, robbers and thieves are to be tagged with GPS trackers in a bid to stop them reoffending. Offenders will be automatically tagged for up to 12 months after being released from prison under a Ministry of Justice (MoJ) pilot https://t.co/xBJ2T844Xg
- Pandemic hits merger activity - but Yorkshire firm keeps growing | Law Gazette https://t.co/FDu6LorVE
- Average volume of properties on the market falls nearly 22 per cent since November peak - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/5y8TqnSOkN
- Still crumbling: HMCTS handling 5,000 court repair requests a month | Law Gazette https://t.co/Y8J1hQTain
- BTO’s Laura Salmond gains specialist employment law accreditation - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/keeCVK8eoY
- Douglas J. Cusine: No excuse for FAI delays - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Bxob2r9Chm
- Oliver Campbell, a man with learning difficulties who admitted to a murder 30 years ago should have his conviction quashed because he confessed to police without a lawyer present, his solicitor says https://t.co/qiC85FQaxI
