Edition 3465: 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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Have you heard about the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE)? This is the new single, rigorous assessment for all aspiring solicitors – marking a step change in how people train and enter the profession.
Have you heard about the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE)? This is the new single, rigorous assessment for all aspiring solicitors – marking a step change in how people train and enter the profession.
Focus of the Day Article:
The Supreme Court has found that an accounting firm that incorrectly advised a building society that it could use a method of accounting known as “hedge accounting” to handle volatility in certain payments had negligently cost the society £32 million for the cost of ditching the contracts early as a result. Full story - Scottish Legal News
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Personal laws can't override POCSO, Child Marriage Restraints Act: Karnataka HC denies bail to person accused of rape, marriage with minor girl | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/OF4qXt2Ncv
- One third of convicted sex offenders across England and Wales avoid prison https://t.co/dC2EY8Cj5e
- Patna High Court grants bail to student who shared objectionable Facebook post on Hindu God, Goddess | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/dgdvu8LhtJ
- Lawyers hint Porter’s barrister could face disciplinary complaints - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/HaUlKGiobh
- Calls for Lord Advocate to recuse herself from malicious prosecution investigation - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mthbDbLagh
- Australia to open door to UK junior lawyers in post-Brexit trade agreement - Legal Cheek https://t.co/FXcgX5edgz
- How to reach your full financial potential as a boutique firm| Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/szgs7TViHW
- Six-month extension of emergency coronavirus legislation to be debated at Holyrood - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/hTrmDwcULJ
- A burglar has been jailed for breaking into the home of an 89-year-old stroke patient who watched helplessly as he stole her jewellery. Dean Lennox took the widow's wedding ring and late husband's wallet from her supported accommodation in Torquay https://t.co/f3tYNw4A8g
- How multinationals are using the law to damage our health | Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/LXIUPjpoNM
- Supreme Court holds accounting firm liable to English building society for millions in damages for negligent advice - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/AbWKG9IskZ
- Wales fans will be unable to travel to Amsterdam for the next round of Euro 2020 in the Netherlands, Wales' health minister has said. Eluned Morgan said police in Amsterdam had said they would not be "letting Welsh fans into the country" https://t.co/CoS29shZ4D
- Hardwicke to rebrand as Gatehouse Chambers after discovering name has slavery links - Legal Cheek https://t.co/7hws5yuO4v
- How women lawyers can thrive post-pandemic | Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/YBo5wkh2PG
- Princess Latifa's photo appears to show #Dubai ruler's daughter in Spain https://t.co/kA5exYr5HX
- A
police force has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police
Conduct after a woman was found fatally injured in a village field.
Paramedics attended but the 23-year-old woman, named locally as Gracie
Spinks, died at the scene on Friday morning https://t.co/0HFmIlaHCG
- Having grown up surrounded by family violence, alcoholism and mental illness, Kristal Naividi was perhaps more likely to need a lawyer than to become one herself | Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/Yo9VYZtZcs
- New EU rules would permit use of most polymers without checks, experts warn https://t.co/1MBJkpzXt
- Digital courts take next step forward with damages claims pilot - Legal Futures https://t.co/pIfZj32sMc
- Congress Rushes to Help Afghans Seeking Visas for Helping #US https://t.co/CuRkDOFpx7
- The people you'll meet on your virtual vacation scheme - Legal Cheek https://t.co/F9v4Ibo0zM
- Sydney barrister avoids fine for simulating oral sex with female clerk in ‘ritualised greeting’ Tribunal finds barrister, who was facing a fine of up to $25,000, ‘had not intended to anger, offend, embarrass or humiliate’ #Australia https://t.co/79EMSGmiVD
- Review to probe impact of Post Office scandal on lawyer regulation - Legal Futures https://t.co/pqMd1R2fwx
- They
Put Up a Pride Flag. A Florida Homeowners’ Group Said Take It Down -
The Eastland Cove Homeowners Association in Broward County, Fla. #US,
said it was not on a list of approved flags. A couple face an initial
fine of up to $50 https://t.co/JrcSHua4RS
- I Am Breaking My Silence About the Baseball Player Who Raped Me https://t.co/jJrc0lT1Qs
- Gateley criticised for not protecting client data - Legal Futures https://t.co/0rEJuC8BZE
- Are inheritance disputes set to become disputes with will-writers? - Legal Futures https://t.co/RAAq6XHVBh
- Bakers lawyers and staff given option to work remotely up to three days a week - Legal Cheek https://t.co/rrvcVdKZAe
- High Court rejects client's bid to judicially review Legal Ombudsman decision - Legal Futures https://t.co/kEVhBeqXEK
- Minister may intervene in Parole Board’s decision to free child killer Colin Pitchfork https://t.co/CcF6MkrKkE
- The body of a #Belgian soldier with far-right views who went missing in mid-May after taking weapons from a military base has been found, officials say https://t.co/vmAOgfu6iQ
- London law firms Wedlake Bell and Moon Beever to merge - Legal Cheek https://t.co/43uDxfWeQs
- Trans #US veterans to be offered gender surgery for first time https://t.co/TOudNTTvS8
- Contaminated blood inquiry: The school where dozens of pupils died https://t.co/ymhapeEpO7
- The Lazarus heist: How #NorthKorea almost pulled off a billion-dollar hack https://t.co/ccwWNdbNap
