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10th May - Law News

Edition 3422: 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: Dozens of people were injured overnight in Jerusalem as clashes erupted between Palestinians and Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa Mosque amid anger over planned forced evictions in annexed East Jerusalem.



  Focus of the Day Article:
Lawyers working on cases dealing with Northern Ireland’s troubled past know that this field of legal work develops slowly. Sometimes, however, developments occur at an unexpected and unwelcome speed. Such has been the case this week. From the collapse of a controversial trial to the reporting of a legislative “amnesty”, the legacy of the Troubles remains an indelible part of both judicial business and daily life. Full story - UK Human Rights Blog
 
Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Should I use a Legal Recruiter? | Lawyer Herald https://t.co/j9VtgX7lot 
  • #India Supreme Court orders audit of Oxygen supplies provided to States; clarifies no intention to scrutinize doctors' good faith decisions | Bar & Bench https://t.co/R5WYoTBW7t
  • ‘Game-changing’ tribunal proposal to revolutionise system for families - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/9OCreAbwQD 
  • #India Supreme Court sets up a National Task Force to streamline oxygen allocation, ensure availability of essential drug, medicines | Bar & Bench https://t.co/SZgMhCeQEa
  • Hogan Lovells launches trainee mentoring scheme to boost retention of BAME lawyers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/olKgU5JUJ3
  • #Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended brutal police action against Palestinian protesters after two nights of clashes in Jerusalem https://t.co/eve9CpnLWY
  • Jonathon Seed, Conservative PCC candidate barred after offence emerges https://t.co/DGEw7dwEdX
  • Why stamping out sexual harassment starts at the recruitment process - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/QX6M6xP74F
  • Linklaters to fund SQE prep courses for refugee lawyers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/KzuZl5SNcw 
  • Magistrate's order releasing 12 seized oxygen concentrators for the use of Police personnel, judicial officers set aside by Delhi Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/88XquYEZ8L 
  • Bar exam bosses apologise for last summer's chaos after damning independent review - Legal Cheek https://t.co/KhaBMqZCGJ
  • EU countries snub Priti Patel’s plans to return asylum seekers - UN criticises the proposals as so damaging they risked Britain’s ‘global credibility’ https://t.co/YdU4U2Ke9B 
  • RT @CrimeGirI: How not to lawyer https://t.co/8sG0xD5VQC
  • Slater and Gordon investigating class action into IVF add-ons - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/rpVdTTbWQ
  • Eight people have been arrested after a man was stabbed in the leg in Selfridges in central London. The Met Police said a fight broke out at the Oxford Street shop just after 19:30 BST on Saturday https://t.co/2WwAJAkJTb
  • Scotland's first minister has said she does not expect the debate over whether there should be a second independence referendum to end up in the courts https://t.co/p2AQNV9kJj
  • Hugs should be selective, short, avoiding face-to-face contact: expert urges caution over hugs as lockdown eases https://t.co/WrcTKqGmNh
  • Danger And Disease: The Perils Of Nursing Homes During Covid-19 | Lawyer Herald https://t.co/ZaH2M5iMP1 
  • Bakers restores NQ solicitor pay to pre-pandemic £90k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/GNJmooLUmb 
  • What the lawyers of today and tomorrow want is vastly different to what those who came before sought, Fionn Bowd says. New pathways are emerging, and BigLaw firms that do not get on board will be left behind - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/tmu2goJITb 
  • #China tries to scupper UN talk on plight of Uighurs https://t.co/hQUAX39pz7 
  • Jerusalem: Many injured on second night of clashes as #Israeli police fire rubber bullets - It follows days of simmering unrest over possible evictions of Palestinians from land claimed by illegal Jewish settlers https://t.co/8RdRPpXIq2
  • A small law firm has been ordered to pay a paralegal-turned-junior lawyer $157,000 in backpay after a court found it was underpaying him on the lucrative employment contract - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/qqobnP3vvR 
  • Virtual event next week: How to get into law as a career changer — with BCLP, Shearman & Sterling, 2 Temple Gardens and ULaw - Legal Cheek https://t.co/EVH8otEG0
  • Marriage certificates in England and Wales to include mothers’ names for first time - Home Office says reform is biggest change to marriage registration system since 1837 https://t.co/Ampbo3IWev
  • New report reveals practice areas most and least impacted by pandemic - Legal Cheek https://t.co/8FtdIW9Tg
  • ‘I pray God takes him first’: why do some #US states want to execute the dying? https://t.co/FDUhKCFhP
  • Osborne Clarke hands staff a slice of the profits as Shoosmiths says ‘thank you' with bonuses - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Z1ZmPcoab
  • Are our courts a playground for bullies? Just ask Catherine Belton - Her acclaimed book is under attack from #Russian billionaires. Are they out to silence her? https://t.co/v9TaKoUuF
  • London law graduate strangled and shot on visit to Pakistan - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Cnm2Emddzk
  • UK taskforce to tackle rising number of pet thefts - Body will look into what is contributing to surge in thefts and recommend solutions to tackle problem https://t.co/cwVG0QdlEp
  • FT editors attack government plans to restrict judicial review - Legal Cheek https://t.co/7F4MLWyN6N 
  • Liverpool Uni law grad earns £60k a year on OnlyFans - Legal Cheek https://t.co/U26O0gEg6j 
  • When Vanessa Nakate, 24, was cropped out of a wire photo featuring her and four white activists, it drew attention that she now uses to expand her work in #Uganda and beyond https://t.co/M8qr2BsPu
  • Palestinians protested ahead of a decision that will come from the #Israeli Supreme Court on whether to uphold the eviction of six families from a neighborhood in East Jerusalem in favor of Jewish settlers https://t.co/mYNCCXJnwz
  • Surge of Migrant Children at the Border Leads to Crowded Shelters #US https://t.co/FlKq6oQp20 
  • DLA Piper launches solicitor apprenticeship for school-leavers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/syQAsKs23U