Saturday

20th March - Law News

Edition 3371: 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: An Indian municipal worker in Mumbai was punched and slapped by a woman after she was stopped for not wearing a mask in the city where COVID-19 cases have been rising.




Saturday Conversations on Law
  • A motorist who was stopped by police for driving at 122mph, told officers that he was travelling back from Wales after getting a haircut https://t.co/g7RxT5PWpk
  • UK woman loses latest bid to keep daughter on life support - Paula Parfitt intends to take appeal to supreme court after judges rule against her in London https://t.co/YZ20x6fd2K 
  • UK government accused of distorting findings of judicial review inquiry - Former reviewer of terror laws says minister’s foreword mischaracterises experts’ conclusions https://t.co/XWflheVE27
  • #German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it was likely that the country would now need to apply an "emergency brake" and re-impose lockdown measures https://t.co/BrcsKopbGo
  • Holyrood backs domestic abuse bill - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/5EosNtyRyV
  • Pay Discrimination Suit Against Disney Adds Pay Secrecy Claim https://t.co/fbAUWyWn08
  • NHS boss's Twitter accounts hacked by PS5 scammers https://t.co/5KdcSQhrCX
  • Police have warned students in the UK against using a website that they say lets users "illegally access" millions of scientific research papers https://t.co/o6aNx3prDF
  • A probationary police officer who assaulted a woman in a "terrifying" attack has been given a curfew, prompting criticism he was not jailed. West Midlands Police PC Oliver Banfield grabbed and manhandled Emma Homer last July while drunk https://t.co/ADxDIesIh
  • Can insolvency legislation save struggling fishing industry firms? - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BwiUvxS2bD
  • Police Investigate Sexual Assault Allegation Against Actor Armie Hammer #US https://t.co/1lYGsMnPX7
  • Police Investigate Sexual Assault Allegation Against Actor Armie Hammer #US https://t.co/1lYGsM6eyx
  • Free EHRC webinar: The roadmap out of Covid: avoiding the potholes - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gY4vd7tVQq
  • Bar regulator "struggling to keep pace" with rising volume of work - Legal Futures https://t.co/5vg9HMKn7o
  • Buckland announces JR reforms to keep judges away from politics | Law Gazette https://t.co/O3DZGIuBZK
  • Solicitor using £50k prize to develop automated advice platform - Legal Futures https://t.co/2vlpagyYql
  • Solicitor struck off for forging signatures while a trainee - Legal Futures https://t.co/yIUzoXeBdD 
  • How Racism and Sexism Intertwine to Torment Asian-American Women https://t.co/TqmmI7lqcy 
  • Multi-disciplinary practice and consolidator unveils latest acquisitions - Legal Futures https://t.co/a7HMPIQQi7
  • New debt navigator project at Govan Law Centre - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/C59pTxRjk9 
  • Claire Parry death: PC Timothy Brehmer has sentence increased - married police officer who strangled his lover after she exposed their affair has had his prison sentence increased on appeal https://t.co/JBXNMIugV
  • Nicola Sturgeon rejects claims over Alex Salmond inquiry evidence https://t.co/PlhjxrX4jz
  • Care workers across the UK who have to sleep at their workplace in case they are needed are not entitled to the minimum wage for their whole shift, the Supreme Court has ruled https://t.co/uabJ0VVQ0n 
  • Dr Richard Freeman, ex-British Cycling and Team Sky chief struck off medical register https://t.co/NsbOJnQzMC
  • Top immigration firm ‘abused’ court process with futile JR claims | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZHZlPyqs6x
  • #US House Votes to Give Millions of Dreamers and Farmworkers a Path to Citizenship https://t.co/uBOG2hW4R6
  • Law Society and SLCC clash over budget - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/xKdeQlvz5k
  • No legal aid for parents fighting to continue baby's life-sustaining treatment | Law Gazette https://t.co/Q7VKSmSZ7J
  • #China sending children of exiled Uighur parents to orphanages, says Amnesty https://t.co/g31dQzS5wl 
  • Promotions at Levy & McRae - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/AYJF3iHPRj
  • Accused Atalanta Gunman Had Visited Massage Parlors He Targeted, Police Say #US https://t.co/QumXWxvJxh
  • #China has detained my young children. I don't know if I'll ever see them again - I am a Uighur who was forced to flee Xinjiang five years ago, leaving four of my children who are now in an ‘orphan camp’ | Mihriban Kader https://t.co/s0CvdDylnc
  • Paralegal told she is ‘not a princess’ loses harassment claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/X2GA3VFfh4
  • "Angry and upset" after midfielder Glen Kamara was racially abused during Rangers' Europa League defeat by Slavia Prague at Ibrox on Thursday https://t.co/4uDNLePsfw 
  • Accounts of atrocities keep coming in as the wounded flee to the regional capital, Mekelle, where Tigrayans say they are being winnowed for their leaders’ rebellion #Ethiopia https://t.co/YCC6mR8ZuN
  • Asian-Americans Are Scared for a Reason - Bigotry and demagoguing have pushed communities to a “crisis point.” #US https://t.co/TgO8Xa5yeS
  • Lord Reed calls proposed changes to UKSC ‘idiotic’ - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/EzRJxaIzPY
  • Imprisonment for Public Protection jail terms 'a death sentence' - Karl Maroni, 33, has spent all his adult life in jail. Aged 18 he committed three violent offences and was convicted https://t.co/hV1zdB4sFE
  • First-year bankers at investment bank Goldman Sachs have warned that they might quit unless their gruelling working conditions improve https://t.co/xicZM9awJI 
  • ‘Act of spite’: Lord Reed decries proposals to change Supreme Court's name | Law Gazette https://t.co/l4PczE0flj
  • Law Society raises concerns with Lord President as spectre of weekend courts looms – again - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/9iIxfw2AN1
  • Firms boasting too much online risk their reputation, SRA chief warns | Law Gazette https://t.co/IYsu1kMqER
  • Judiciary imperils right to a fair trial with renewed attack on juries - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/FztF5S7rLL
  • JR reform: Buckland to 'go further' than Faulks review | Law Gazette https://t.co/yOH2biQwkh 
  • Edinburgh woman whose ex-partner forged signature on standard security succeeds in action for reduction - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/FdYd1IA4Ac
  • Women of Asian Descent Were 6 of the 8 Victims in Atlanta Shootings #US https://t.co/o3E58zAXEz 
  • Suspect in Atlanta Spa Attacks Is Charged With 8 Counts of Murder #US https://t.co/EBQV0xvXWr 
  • Proud Boys Leaders in Four States Are Charged in Capitol Riot #US https://t.co/w8f0iOz338