Tuesday

27th July - Law News

Edition 3500: 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:
 
This free online panel event, hosted by the Bar Council and Inside Justice as part of Justice Week 2021, focuses on accessing justice for wrongful convictions. During the session our speakers will take the audience through the work required in a real-life investigation to identify a killer, and have the murder conviction of an innocent man quashed.
 
Focus of the Day Article:
The Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed an appeal which considered whether treatment throughout a 55 day period in solitary confinement of a then 15-year-old appellant in Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution constituted a violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.  Full story - UK Human Rights Blog
 
Saturday Conversations on Law
  • New report paves way for positive sustainability impact - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/zvPYXWIfN
  • Tesco Bank to close all its current accounts https://t.co/ccJOEMLGmV
  • A woman has been jailed for 34 months after being found at Heathrow Airport with five suitcases stuffed with nearly £2m in cash. Tara Hanlon, 30, of Pelham Court, Leeds, pleaded guilty at Isleworth Crown Court in June to money laundering https://t.co/AZKMsHCzPU
  • Woman on the run after being exposed for practicing law, winning Bar election without LLB | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/caQiAi94W
  • Can data analytics unlock the potential for diversity in the law? - Legal Futures https://t.co/aVhlp6zkvz
  • #Australia Private Practice Salary Guide & Market Report 2021-2022 - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/i4FKffmHNR
  • Fears about using judicial data to predict judges' actions "exaggerated" - Legal Futures https://t.co/K5fZ4jdOD3
  • The Weekly Round-Up: Migrant Rights, Virginity Testing and Racism - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/pT4uSelCa
  • Fifty-two prisoners in close supervision units ‘that may amount to torture’ - FoI request reveals number of inmates in England and Wales kept in conditions criticised by UN expert https://t.co/kdfa5m5t0m
  • Former England footballer Wayne Rooney has reported a range of photos taken of him to police, his lawyers have said. The photos appear to show the Derby County manager asleep in a chair with unknown women posing beside him https://t.co/nG3Weuv3hj
  • Barcelona have reached an out-of-court agreement with their former player Neymar to end a legal dispute in "amicable fashion". Neymar claimed Barca refused to pay him £37.2m in owed loyalty bonuses after his £200m move to Paris St-Germain in 2017 https://t.co/kdrckFaQyw
  • Two schoolboys who ambushed a 13-year-old and stabbed him to death after a dispute on social media have been found guilty of murder. Olly Stephens suffered fatal stab wounds to his chest and back in a field in Reading https://t.co/w8WlTTWNFX
  • Scott Walker guilty of murder - Bernadette Walker, 17, told her mother Sarah in July 2020 Scott Walker, 51, had been abusing her "over a number of years", Cambridge Crown Court heard https://t.co/UKvgMTpb2q
  • A High Court challenge against the government's proposed £27bn road scheme that includes the Stonehenge road tunnel has been dismissed. Mr Justice Holgate said its net zero carbon target had "plainly been taken into account" when it was approved https://t.co/gHFRDRnjrs
  • Alexandra Tighe has worked on four royal commissions during her career, two of which saw her act as lead partner. Here, she discusses what such litigation work is like - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/hoSJ5MVQSB
  • Discrimination the “sole cause” of paucity of Black QCs - Legal Futures https://t.co/HRcReKLmnI
  • Appointments at DWF’s Scottish offices - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/STMoTslTm8 
  • UK Lord Justice to serve as international patron for Asian Australian Lawyers Association - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/1roxcdpKxv
  • CMS announces five senior of counsel promotions - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/uMluqWWj3w
  • Reporters confronted in street and accused of ‘smearing China’ amid increasing sensitivity to any negative portrayals of #China https://t.co/8BecXPyZjG
  • Covid: Quarantine for Britons vaccinated abroad to be dropped - Vaccines minister says government will recognise UK-authorised jabs given overseas from next month https://t.co/IF9g4q0poS
  • Inner House extends interdict banning sale of trade mark infringing Lidl gin to UK-wide order - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ehPesmn0WS 
  • New Lawpod UK episode: Vicarious trauma in the legal profession - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/WwArlHqdUJ
  • Dishonest but "humanitarian" solicitor avoids strike-off - Legal Futures https://t.co/S0OZ4XHOx8
  • A man accused of murdering his mother's partner, who was one of the UK's richest men, has pleaded not guilty. Sir Richard Sutton was stabbed to death at his home in Higher Langham, Gillingham, Dorset, on 7 April https://t.co/ZNLhUJzgnh 
  • Tokyo 2020: S Korea TV sorry for using Pizza for Italy, Dracula for Romania and Chernobyl for Ukraine to depict opening games https://t.co/2rTNSD125d
  • Are we not humans? Have we lost all touch of humanity? Former Supreme Court judge Justice Deepak Gupta on incarceration of Stan Swamy, UAPA | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/pP3HPITqC2
  • Former Premier League footballer Joey Barton has denied attacking his wife, leaving her with a head injury. The Bristol Rovers manager appeared at Wimbledon Magistrates Court earlier via videolink https://t.co/xv1yfTw7NZ
  • FTX and Binance, Cryptocurrency Leaders, Move to Curb High Risk Trades https://t.co/WQbuCcTfQk
  • In Louisiana, Public Health Workers Combat Vaccine Misinformation #US https://t.co/aMaD2TeF03 
  • How the Satanic lawyer created the billionaire legal sector - Legal Cheek https://t.co/cl3TozTKnL 
  • Sydney criminal lawyer behind fraudulent betting syndicate loses appeal - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/dPaFOfjqkX
  • Outrage as Italy faces multimillion pound damages to UK oil firm - Secretive tribunals allow fossil fuel companies to sue governments for passing laws to protect environment https://t.co/o020x6p7Hz 
  • Court of Appeal allows claim over law firm break-up to proceed in full - Legal Futures https://t.co/xD60ET7h6g
  • Supreme Court dismisses solitary confinement appeal - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/wLcUcCrrC
  • Indoor hospitality in the Republic of #Ireland will return. Customers, including those from Northern Ireland, must have official proof they have been fully vaccinated or have recovered from Covid-19 within the last 180 days https://t.co/RkHHH61VpH
  • A new £48m National Adoption Strategy seeks to improve adoption services and help place more children with families as it launches in England https://t.co/SBrFWMatD2
  • Two London hospitals have asked patients to stay away after their emergency departments were hit by flooding on Sunday. East London's Whipps Cross and Newham hospitals urged patients to use other A&Es for urgent care, and ambulances are being redirected https://t.co/3k9EVi99LN
  • The ‘public interest’ defence to defamation - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/TOWBXPnqLP
  • Kerala High Court dismisses 'poorly researched' petition by Hindu body challenging minority quota; imposes cost of Rs. 25,000 | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/6uwK8r3zv
  • Woman moves court after man she met on matrimonial app fails to pay back | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Gb4FIPFa8M
  • [Disposal of COVID-19 victim bodies v. Parsee last rites] What the Gujarat High Court held | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/ZHzZPMRv4Y 
  • The Boutique Lawyer Show: Book writing is the new business card - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/tU0WV7h4y6 
  • Linklaters retains 45 of 48 autumn qualifying trainees - Legal Cheek https://t.co/e3rMIEUmWt 
  • Speakers' Corner: Woman attacked with knife https://t.co/aWiW4uMr0c 
  • Prashant Kishor: How to win elections and influence people in sectarian #India https://t.co/iaVjl9a1c9