Friday

21st May - Law News

Edition 3433: 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: Thousands of Australian students across the country will take part in rallies today calling on the federal government to take greater action on climate change. 

  Focus of the Day Article:
'We are in something of an arms race' - IP chiefs on the global fight against fakes. Brand protection heads at Diageo, Manchester United and PopSockets reflect on their work ahead of the Anti-Counterfeiting World Law Summit. Full story - The Global Legal Post
 
Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Bill introducing preliminary trial hearings clears Oireachtas - Irish Legal News https://t.co/1AEOpWnFy
  • Covid isolation rule for care homes is ‘false imprisonment risk’ https://t.co/2XT9sNnpp5
  • Loughborough in line for new ‘super-court’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/tFS33HEyXo
  • High Court: Renewal of summons not justified by bringing application before Statute of Limitations expires - Irish Legal News https://t.co/CEAYVpoSw0
  • Tobacco firms in move to strike out Malawi exploitation case https://t.co/zLwtGM3KHK
  • Ex-partner of Brighton ‘babes in the wood’ killer jailed for perjury https://t.co/2Fvj5YT3BP
  • Violent crime convictions up - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/jNwzFStSuS
  • Firm reports 100% take-up for employees offered stake in business | Law Gazette https://t.co/CnWwM4oGG1
  • Statutory inquiry announced for sub-postmaster scandal | Law Gazette https://t.co/zZYQC7hkwE 
  • #Uganda Law Society, other Organizations Petition Court over saving Bugoma Forest from being turned into sugarcane plantation https://t.co/MQTrpscdQc 
  • Nicolas Sarkozy, former president of #France, is going on trial for illegally funding his 2012 re-election campaign https://t.co/yi0jyVQZg8
  • UK government to rely on ‘force majeure’ argument in NI Protocol dispute - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/bIcY0I7UFG
  • Failures in England's test-and-trace system are partly responsible for a surge in the Indian variant in one of the worst affected parts of the country - eight local authorities in England did not have access to the full data on positive tests in their area https://t.co/K0T8rzB1JC
  • The BBC covered up the "deceitful" tactics journalist Martin Bashir used to secure his famous interview with Princess Diana, an inquiry has found. A report about how the interview was secured has been published https://t.co/u3UmB4nzIi 
  • Anger over proposed ‘good faith’ rule for immigration lawyers - Legal Futures https://t.co/5Un5mLGw94 
  • US House votes to create 9/11-style commission to investigate Capitol attack https://t.co/vadixZn0oT
  • Sloppy law firms “using Covid as excuse” for regulatory shortcomings - Legal Futures https://t.co/SQwSQoBV8N
  • Pre-sentence reports piloted for offenders with complex needs | Law Gazette https://t.co/evXNFJOa4Z 
  • More than 2,500 women who were victims of the PIP breast implant scandal should receive compensation, a #French appeal court has decided. The women involved, including 540 Britons, say they are elated and exhausted after 10 years of fighting for justice https://t.co/06l89nmMy8 
  • Former MP Mike Hill breached Parliament's sexual misconduct policy, an independent panel has found. The Independent Expert Panel (IEP) said that he would likely have faced a suspension had he not already resigned https://t.co/klFvavTe5c
  • Northumbria University is "urgently" investigating after an online uproar over a tweet posted from a university lecturer's Twitter account. The tweet features an image of Jeremy Corbyn, altered to show him reading from a notorious anti-Semitic forgery https://t.co/JswfNTV2oF
  • Has the Hay Festival, Britain's best-known literary festival ignoring its Welsh roots with so little focus on Wales in this year? https://t.co/CpABMUSwLF
  • Surrey firm ordered to pay £800k for property negligence - Legal Futures https://t.co/OArBmhO5aD 
  • WBD announces new charity partners in Edinburgh - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SizambAgS7 
  • UK railways to be simplified but still substantially privatised https://t.co/BR3ud3uccW
  • An Oxford University college will not "begin the legal process" to remove a statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes from its building https://t.co/VmTMx6bOJ
  • Police in #Guatemala say at least seven prisoners have been killed during a fight between rival gangs in a jail in Quetzaltenango. Most of them were beheaded as members of the Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 gangs attacked each other https://t.co/msTv4A4CdO
  • Human rights commission to intervene in criminal appeal over fair trial rights in Special Criminal Court - Irish Legal News https://t.co/O1l6RCr4si 
  • Firm avoids negligence penalty following out-of-time ruling | Law Gazette https://t.co/5qGhhsz4bs
  • Law Society to probe bullying, harassment and sexual harassment in solicitors' profession - Irish Legal News https://t.co/IalQoIiHGJ 
  • Online safety legislation to include boost for broadcasters and public service media - Irish Legal News https://t.co/mCUpKfnTbH 
  • Completion of Sheriff solemn cases up eight per cent on pre-Covid average - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SibGvEFlyy
  • Deals roundup - Irish Legal News https://t.co/VIzKB07N2e 
  • Planning rules to be revised to tackle bulk purchase of houses - Irish Legal News https://t.co/MTESDPV1Xv
  • New lease of life for Glasgow practice - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BCVU5RMO1t 
  • Teachers' grades could be biased towards students with more "agreeable" personalities - rather than actual ability, say psychologists https://t.co/6T8iKsGaks 
  • Breast implant scandal compensation ruling due https://t.co/06l89nmMy8
  • DLA Piper appoints Stuart Murdoch as partner in Edinburgh - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/5UboiNAeqw