Edition 3459: 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:
CNN has uncovered disturbing evidence of human rights atrocities by Russian mercenaries in the Central African Republic. CNN's Clarissa Ward and her team were denied entry to the country because of CNN's previous reporting on the activities of the mercenaries. But working with local journalists and an independent investigative group The Sentry, CNN has assembled evidence of a pattern of abuses, which one UN expert says may amount to war crimes
Focus of the Day Article:
A hardening indemnity insurance market and pressure from the Law Society have persuaded the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to keep the Solicitors Indemnity Fund (SIF) open for a further year. The SRA said the society had “expressed reservations about its ability to run a discretionary hardship fund” in the absence of SIF. Full
story - Legal Futures |
| Saturday Conversations on Law |
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- NI: Carson McDowell becomes Northern Ireland's largest partnership after double appointment - Irish Legal News https://t.co/fQzcbm1Bgi
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- Time to update ‘Dickensian’ county courts | Law Gazette https://t.co/rga9mh5Yuq
- NI: JMK Solicitors sponsors 'touch the car' competition for sixth form pupils - Irish Legal News https://t.co/yce6P1wJF
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- Landmark bill to put police search, arrest and detention powers on statutory basis - Irish Legal News https://t.co/WMsEI2VZV0
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- First-ever convictions for human trafficking handed down - Irish Legal News https://t.co/MovHvWpbQz
- SRA keeps SIF open in face of hardening insurance market - Legal Futures https://t.co/HMf134TsT4
- Fidelma McManus: Is cost rental a feasible approach to increasing Ireland’s affordable housing supply? - Irish Legal News https://t.co/UEFJkh9jYl
- Giulio
Regeni’s last messages before his death in Egypt counter spy claims.
Facebook messages from the Italian student killed in Cairo in 2016 show
his concerns about studying in the country #Egypt https://t.co/XxKcuenKAU
- Prisons inspector warns complaints system is 'unfit for purpose' for third successive year - Irish Legal News https://t.co/62ftzvnvF4
- Consolidation gathers pace as firm numbers dip below 10,000 | Law Gazette https://t.co/whw16Ez1Bc
- Chambers changes name over Lord Hardwicke's links to slavery - Legal Futures https://t.co/18ddJnia5x
- E-bike sales boom despite high prices and confusing rules https://t.co/NghfY2QGfG
- The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has confirmed it is investigating Apple and Google over their dominant position in the mobile phone market https://t.co/eeraOEUbpi
- Call to curb return to practice of barristers suspended for sexual misconduct - Legal Futures https://t.co/R9eZ71jkVU
- An independent panel has accused the Met Police of "a form of institutional corruption" for concealing or denying failings over the unsolved murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan https://t.co/DTwNRDp6d9
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- Gardaí ignored thousands of 999 calls about domestic violence - Irish Legal News https://t.co/taHKaaucFY
- My legal life: Helen Goatley, Moore Barlow - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/v5zvAfHFxI
- 2005 Constitutional Reform Act up for review | Law Gazette https://t.co/y7R7nwVm4d
- Morton Fraser announces 17 promotions - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mKFmrAmTs
- A
French court has ordered Ikea to pay a fine of €1m (£860,000; $1.2m)
after the Swedish furniture chain was found guilty of spying on staff in
#France https://t.co/VW3hgnPLg1
- Mason Hayes & Curran LLP becomes first Irish member of The International Stock Exchange - Irish Legal News https://t.co/zuKCImUmeh
- The sexual assault of sleeping women: the hidden, horrifying rape crisis in Britain’s bedrooms https://t.co/J1kceqsLas
- British nationals in France face losing rights if they miss residency deadline - Call to extend 30 June deadline over fears Britons will lose access to healthcare and pensions https://t.co/g3UAQLLxko
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- High Court: Personal injuries claim struck out against Swedish airport for want of jurisdiction - Irish Legal News https://t.co/nCxScR7uge
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- Americans Plead Guilty in #Japan to Aiding Carlos Ghosn’s Escape https://t.co/NZUXjrr68r
- Judges Halt Race and Gender Priority for Restaurant Relief Grants - Approvals for thousands of Restaurant Revitalization Fund applicants were rescinded after court orders struck down a policy that favored historically underserved groups #US https://t.co/DU2IaLb6i
- Edouardo Jordan's Restaurant Staff Quits After Sexual Misconduct Allegations #US https://t.co/pZc1lcZqd8
- Woman Dies After Driver Hits Crowd in Minneapolis - The group was gathered on Sunday night to protest police brutality. Three other people were injured, the police said #US https://t.co/hJNec8CyC
- Bitcoin's Many Flaws https://t.co/HTWzsLJ5GZ
- Professor Colin Harvey: Making Northern Ireland’s ‘special arrangement’ work - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/miwpRG7HQ
- More than 40 human rights organisations have condemned the Home Office’s introduction of 24-hour GPS monitoring of people on immigration bail in an expansion of surveillance powers that has involved no consultation process https://t.co/Bqh6Czl9t
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- ‘Best-friend relationship’: Thames Valley firm merges with commercial specialist | Law Gazette https://t.co/rG8wN5KEth
- Vladimir Putin refuses to guarantee Navalny will survive prison - In US TV interview, #Russian leader deflects allegations over cyber-attacks and human rights https://t.co/z6iCV9DREh
- Betting firms won £1.3m in stolen money from gambling addict https://t.co/8mFncd5lsB
- Appointments at Davidson Chalmers Stewart - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/wS6zkneWSf
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