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18th April - Law News

Edition 3400: 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:
Some of Brazil’s biggest media companies have come together to combat COVID-19 misinformation – a lot of which is coming from President Jair Bolsonaro’s office

 
Saturday Conversations on Law
  • #Poland: Human rights chief ordered out by top court - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Z6IRBY9HK
  • Supreme Court: Final orders made in landmark WRC decision - Irish Legal News https://t.co/ntzh97Ma9
  • LLB student Lucy Mackay wins named GCU’s student of the year - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/S2xCNXhMvJ
  • Session Cases At 200: The wisdom of the Institutional Writers - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/StKxm7eBjx
  • ‘I’m not the defendant’: the trials of a black barrister https://t.co/jufpHOTQa1 
  • Quis: Tutoring of witnesses - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/YoKDGiy5d
  • #Indian female advocates demand more representation in judiciary https://t.co/MyZZWdR0tD 
  • Emergency legislation to allow public hearings of WRC cases - Irish Legal News https://t.co/hDjGgkDb
  • A judge has criticised solicitors acting in a high-value banking case for not having promptly instructed costs lawyers to assess a $3.7m default costs certificate (DCC) | NLJ https://t.co/FagBl8HF
  • New right to welfare, housing and healthcare for prisoners in Lib Dem manifesto - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/D9FRIfp7C
  • The House of Commons Library has published a briefing on pension schemes for judges | NLJ https://t.co/w8tuIaaV5b
  • Widow of Pat Finucane granted leave for new judicial review - Irish Legal News https://t.co/vOOe1UZ4Ke
  • The Law Society has commented on the National Security and Investment Bill (the Bill) in a Parliamentary Briefing | NLJ https://t.co/5YBw9z0qT
  • Shepherd and Wedderburn team advised on deals worth £7.1 billion in 2020 - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/vEwAKzQjO4
  • Colin the Caterpillar cake row: Judge Rinder gives his verdict https://t.co/fsJsD9gHr
  • Breonna Taylor: Publisher refuses to distribute police officer's book #US https://t.co/WwwU9hxvYR
  • "Leave and Let Die: The EU Banopticon Approach to Migrants at Sea" | Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche https://t.co/Wz0rpzBBV0
  • Aston Villa and England defender Tyrone Mings has revealed he has received racist abuse on social media https://t.co/v3CJaFaW1d
  • A police officer who used racist language towards a colleague has been dismissed. Chris Tyler, formerly of Cambridgeshire Police, used the slur at a staff Christmas party in December 2019 https://t.co/snV4G3FUCq
  • Man who allegedly tried to break into Buckingham Palace while carrying a knife has been charged: Chorrie Thompson, 46, of Ashcombe Park, Neasden, has been charged with trespass https://t.co/x4Q66hYoOK
  • Democrats’ Supreme Court Expansion Plan Draws Resistance #US https://t.co/nZPtaNmf2T
  • Lib Dems: Remove Crown Office from fatal accident inquiries - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SLZBinqtk8
  • The Institute for Government has published a report on the ongoing consultation and discourse into reforming judicial review | NLJ https://t.co/fwztfXvKXD
  • NI: Private member's bill would extend religious discrimination rules to teachers - Irish Legal News https://t.co/DXuib6oyy
  • Clyde & Co vacates part of London office | Law Gazette https://t.co/VCWvqGsON
  • Advocate Tony Lenehan responds to yesterday’s piece from academics on the ‘not proven’ debate - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/cfiz56yGL
  • Linklaters to offer A-Level tutoring in diversity drive | Law Gazette https://t.co/zW8fMLMLCC 
  • Judge takes hearing to court cell after defendant refuses to come out = Vladyslav Dryhval has been accused of wielding an axe near Buckingham Palace https://t.co/bFIhaZS7pr
  • Peter Devitt, associate at Hayes Solicitors, examines a decision bringing clarity to the interpretation of the “special circumstances” test for plaintiffs who are seeking to renew a summons - Irish Legal News https://t.co/3QyLjYAkP
  • An elderly Sydney barrister who described his sexual harassment of a young female solicitor as "attempted chivalry" has been ordered to have at least eight hours counselling #Australia https://t.co/WzxQ3t9B9B
  • Lawyers demand remote work and even reduced hours, finds survey | Law Gazette https://t.co/3eKvS6rSVs
  • UN urges Australia to act quickly to bring stranded #Australians home - The human rights committee’s request, as it hears two cases about citizens’ ‘right to return’, should be a wake-up call for the government https://t.co/QN0sMOmgLj
  • Veteran solicitor fined for transferring £290,000 to wrong bank account | Law Gazette https://t.co/Lr2WbiO1zz
  • Crisis, what crisis? Legal sector revenues surge | Law Gazette https://t.co/MReVMmA6iW
  • Three men sentenced in #Spain’s ‘Sabadell wolf pack’ gang-rape trial https://t.co/7BG7pHChcI 
  • Edinburgh bus driver who hit cyclist loses tribunal appeal against dismissal from bus company - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/KE0fWyHDRS
  • HMCTS still failing to collect data on jurors | Law Gazette https://t.co/OyOyGC0VWG
  • An Iranian human rights lawyer's lot | Law Gazette https://t.co/kPBNQTJzdJ
  • Human rights guidance for Irish businesses published - Irish Legal News https://t.co/8lyG6eX7Op
  • Joshua White murder: Three men guilty over Hackney stabbing https://t.co/AdYsupC6NO
  • First edition of Irish Judicial Studies Journal 2021 online - Irish Legal News https://t.co/goG6ZB0P90
  • Irwin Mitchell beats off claim from solicitor-turned-porn producer | RollOnFriday https://t.co/3SN9fqsdDj
  • A plug for Watt v Jamieson, 1954 SC 56, which I think should appeal for a number of reasons - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Wpg0Daj3W9 
  • #France Lawmakers Pass Contentious Bill Extending Police Powers https://t.co/odOYNOEQSR 
  • Video of Chicago Police Fatally Shooting Adam Toledo Is Released #US https://t.co/qxbjMVAbSV 
  • Fitness-obsessed father who forced his daughter to sign a contract to "never get fat" has been jailed for 30 months. Rachid Khadla, from Windsor, Berkshire, violently attacked and manipulated his three children for years, Reading Crown Court heard https://t.co/1pLLyABcpD