Edition 3426: 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: In this episode of Modern Masculinity, journalist Iman Amrani speaks to Chris, who after being diagnosed with schizophrenia spent a long time in the mental health system. They discuss medication, frustration at the system, and the importance of being listened to and heard. Dr Rufus May, a clinical psychologist, speaks about how he worked with Chris and other patients to show compassion and empathy, and how this can help people with mental health issues navigate society
Focus of the Day Article:
Ex-Gibson Dunn Dubai partner struck off for deliberately misleading London's High Court. Peter Gray found to have acted dishonestly in 'ill-tempered and hard fought' Djibouti litigation. Full story - The Global Legal Post
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Brodies advises on hotel deals worth in excess of £1 billion - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Wikud49cnF
- Ex-City partner struck off for misleading court and opposing solicitors https://t.co/kAoebjsCZy
- Medics can use force to take a pregnant woman who has agoraphobia to hospital to give birth, a judge has ruled. The 21-year-old has an "overwhelming" fear of leaving her home, the Court of Protection in London heard https://t.co/LBq6YSebrm
- Councils could have to issue up to 3.5m ID cards for voters under new bill https://t.co/0gXZVRgyz6
- Pinsent Masons rolls out equality law practice in Scotland - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3iG0vnfqdI
- An e-fit picture has been released by police as they try to find the mother of a newborn baby boy found in a park. The infant, named George by hospital staff, was found clothed in a blanket on 22 April at The Mounds in Kings Norton, Birmingham https://t.co/zaB4AAilco
- Two men who were being detained in an immigration van which was surrounded by protesters have been released. The move followed a standoff between police officers and protesters in Kenmure Street on Glasgow's southside https://t.co/CEQAMHPIgd
- The UK's top intelligence agency did not consider a convicted terrorist a risk, an inquest court has heard https://t.co/7VWTgIaZuQ
- Linklaters elects first female senior partner | Law Gazette https://t.co/PQXtixR4rV
- Travel companies have been warned they must be ready to refund consumers if foreign holidays are cancelled by the coronavirus pandemic this summer https://t.co/t4fLItCC67
- MacRoberts focuses on agile working in Edinburgh office move - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/emtAfYgETE
- A
Metropolitan Police officer who pretended to stop and search drug
dealers so he could steal their money has been jailed for eight years.
Kashif Mahmood seized hundreds of thousands of pounds for an organised
crime gang controlled from Dubai https://t.co/BliZj83wxF
- Online safety bill: a messy new minefield in the culture wars https://t.co/bkENYUczTX
- People aged 18 and over in parts of Lancashire are to be offered Covid vaccines due to concerns about levels of the Indian variant of the virus. The jabs are to be offered to people in and around Blackburn and Darwen https://t.co/XvleJOoiIr
- Solicitor turned "wilful blind eye" to highly suspicious PI claims - Legal Futures https://t.co/5N9kohSdfh
- Cruel, paranoid, failing: inside the Home Office: Something is badly wrong at the heart of one of Britain’s most important ministries. How did it become so broken? https://t.co/jcV6CIx9IAreet. One man is lying under the vehicle, on Kenmure Street in Pollokshields, while hundreds of people sit around the van and stand on the road https://t.co/CEQAMHPIg
- Forensic archaeologists have begun examining a cafe basement in the search for suspected Fred West victim, Mary Bastholm. The 15-year-old, who worked at the cafe in Southgate Street, Gloucester, went missing in the city on 6 January 1968 https://t.co/o7f3dujVtp
- Downing Street has succeeded in getting a county court judgement against Boris Johnson struck out, the BBC understands. The court order was registered against the prime minister over an alleged unpaid debt of £535 https://t.co/0UNzs7JGR
- Housing lawyers warn over tenants' rights reforms | Law Gazette https://t.co/8wCRu3FIP9
- Scottish Water fined for Fife pollution - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lavBtvw8e
- Regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. - Irish Legal News https://t.co/6AfTiiaqTl
- Court places no limit on defence costs in failed Danish tax claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/zxpJRXnsOw
- Adopted people to gain legal right to access birth certificates - Irish Legal News https://t.co/024Tb8EFOI
- Boss of listed law firm cashes in nearly £10m worth of shares - Legal Futures https://t.co/xU919bMS3h
- Blanket bans on camping by Gypsies and Travellers ruled illegal at high court https://t.co/uBCUchSmU5
- "Hopelessly complicated" whiplash portal guide slammed - Legal Futures https://t.co/riCyuoP77G
- State agencies and NGOs to gain role in identifying victims of human trafficking - Irish Legal News https://t.co/RRPYMxUyqO
- Small firms increasingly worried by competition from online providers - Legal Futures https://t.co/6vdg5KxGJu
- Glasgow School of Law to host Human Rights Act event - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/YWOVZBz9UM
- Law firm leadership post-pandemic - a huge opportunity - Legal Futures https://t.co/Q6vLB7Ix89
- Nokia to score panel firms on diversity progress | Law Gazette https://t.co/8WvOMnPiHn
- Court orders retrial after ‘inexcusable’ judgment delay | Law Gazette https://t.co/yyU5OSZcDI
- ‘Staggering’ Legal Fees in Boy Scouts Bankruptcy Case #US https://t.co/HiCodCs6ZT
- Seven charged after mummified body of cult leader found in Colorado home #US https://t.co/Ud4GS44id4
- Animals to be formally recognised as sentient beings in UK law https://t.co/A00sYhn0a3
- Former politician Michelle Mulherin returns to legal practice - Irish Legal News https://t.co/6tFAv9hck0
- Amazon has won a court battle over €250m (£215m) in taxes it had been ordered to pay Luxembourg. The European Commission had ordered the tech giant to repay the funds as back taxes, alleging that Amazon had been given unfair special treatment https://t.co/Tjr8hnklWb
- Bill to allow for rescue of small companies without court application to be drafted as priority - Irish Legal News https://t.co/4zYepMVwLo
- Uyghur imams targeted in #China's Xinjiang crackdown https://t.co/6obTb26JJT
- What is going on between Israel and the Palestinians? https://t.co/hJ2oE4kla
- Northern delights: Norway solicitors highest paid in Europe | Law Gazette https://t.co/saT5nnRLwh
- Court
of Appeal: Plaintiff ordered to pay differential costs and appeal costs
after damages were reduced by court - Irish Legal News https://t.co/XJlRJVcIvO
- Cross-party MPs aim to force government to rectify rights breaches - Stella Creasy and David Davis leading attempt to protect at-risk women and extend bereavement benefits to unmarried parents https://t.co/6xlnqvlFt9
- Queen’s speech: bill to raise judicial retirement age | Law Gazette https://t.co/lYefYzT8ZW
- In Rebuke to N.R.A., Federal Judge Dismisses Bankruptcy Case #US https://t.co/QM25MYx8Ob
- Met officer stole drugs money in fake police raids, court hears | https://t.co/OlFmheY96M
- A defendant in a criminal case has been sharply rebuked by a #US judge after logging into a remote court hearing with the offensive name “Buttf*cker 3000” - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/KbvoTuI2Bc
- Infections, deaths and breakdowns that began in big #Indian cities a few weeks ago are rapidly advancing into rural areas, unleashing deep fear in places with little medical safety net https://t.co/rAMzM98Na4
- Police hunt man who tried to frame person for Westminster terror attack - Gerald Banyard found guilty of perverting course of justice over attack by Khalid Masood in 2017 https://t.co/GcYMJSe3E6
- Republican senators criticized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention policies and funding at a hearing on Tuesday. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci had a particularly fiery exchange with Senator Rand Paul #US https://t.co/0QrkwAsbmD
- Are billable hours the elephant in the room for wellbeing? | Law Gazette https://t.co/u82K9uHFjI
- Climate activists bring legal challenge over UK oil and gas strategy https://t.co/eKqNVFVH51
- Benjamin Bestgen, the author of our jurisprudential primer series, reflects on a year of his articles – from their inception in far-flung New Zealand to their conclusion in besieged Jersey - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/7q5IXPsf8U
