Edition 3516: 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: Diplomatic tensions between Canada and China continue to rise, after a Chinese court sentenced Canadian businessman Michael Spavor to 11 years in prison
Focus of the Day Article:
A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has refused to recall an interlocutor relating to a motion for interim damages in a personal injury case after the defender’s legal team failed to intimate opposition to the motion in time. Full story - Scottish Legal News
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms - Irish Legal News https://t.co/zgZIVFcGX
- Firm agrees 15-year lease for new London skyscraper | Law Gazette https://t.co/qfOL3AScQ
- NI: Construction supply chain struggling to keep up with demand - Irish Legal News https://t.co/y4wpaDvRH8
- Barrister who leaked Heathrow judgment appeals contempt ruling | Law Gazette https://t.co/2jrBSSodh
- Year 11 student Emily Eames grew up in Colchester and is passionate about English Literature. Here, she writes about a topic close to her heart - feminism https://t.co/eQdtQCCtS
- An independent review of how fish farms are regulated is underway in a move to make Scottish aquaculture legislation more effective - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/olfijYD84
- Q&A: Lizzie Colvin, employment lawyer and Irish Olympian - Irish Legal News https://t.co/tKhS7sCQj
- MoJ ordered to look again at victims' compensation scheme | Law Gazette https://t.co/3YqxYYFZ0
- Lisa Bryson, partner and head of employment law at Eversheds Sutherland in Belfast, warns employers to be aware of the potential issues around vaccines - Irish Legal News https://t.co/ZMXrxqYAI
- Law Society launches student competition on climate change and the law - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3IcQHbXH1Y
- #China to ban karaoke songs with ‘illegal content’ that endangers national unity: China’s nearly 50,000 venues will be encouraged to provide ‘healthy’ songs rather than those threatening territorial integrity or religious policies https://t.co/qQVewEHJm
- Immigrants helped make places like Northwest Arkansas in the #US economic dynamos. But their dwindling numbers, a big factor in slower population growth, would have long-term repercussions https://t.co/zDRTvOFTeW
- Law firm 'disappointed' at being named on minimum wage list | Law Gazette https://t.co/0RFLQ9PH5e
- #Australian media report that the 27-year-old woman worked for eight months at Sydney's Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital pretending to be a doctor https://t.co/J5fbbDCXh
- A
disability campaigner was left naked and feeling vulnerable when she
fell in a hotel bathroom at Mama Shelter London where an emergency alarm
cord was tied up out of reach https://t.co/bNIiBSpFzC
- Four gang members have been convicted of the murder of an NHS worker who was stabbed in the street in east London. David Gomoh, 24, was attacked as he talked on the phone to his girlfriend on 26 April 2020 https://t.co/6DA690asUh
- Land Registry to pilot lawyer certificate scheme - Legal Futures https://t.co/0TZ1LzOEq3
- Comyn Kelleher Tobin partner Sinead Fitzgerald and intern Mary Maunsell examine a recent High Court judgment on spousal maintenance and “proper provision” - Irish Legal News https://t.co/2ht8FHTIu
- QC arbitrators in Man City case were not “beholden” to Premier League - Legal Futures https://t.co/lYs0V7PyMd
- UK could allow animal tests for cosmetic ingredients for first time since 1998, campaigners say aligning with EU ruling on chemical testing will ‘blow a hole’ in UK leadership on cruelty-free cosmetics https://t.co/cAGpBULnE8
- Scottish Law Agents’ Society backs preservation of ‘not proven’ - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/gKPcTocaS
- #German
police arrest Briton on suspicion of spying for Russia - Employee at
British embassy in Berlin suspected of passing on documents in exchange
for cash https://t.co/DmNj7aQdAa
- High Court rejects appeal by struck-off pension scam solicitor - Legal Futures https://t.co/XSUtImrseg
- A court in #China has convicted a Canadian businessman of espionage and sentenced him to 11 years in prison. Michael Spavor has been detained since 2018, after being arrested with fellow Canadian ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig https://t.co/rjzsb3FR7
- Rescue mission fails to find British human rights lawyer Mehri Jafari missing on mountain | Law Gazette https://t.co/at0uEoLfBE
- Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts which it says were involved in anti-vax disinformation campaigns operated from #Russia. The company said the network of accounts targeted India, Latin America and the US https://t.co/qnkL2E1SkN
- Asylum seeker cleared of people smuggling has said he was made a "scapegoat" by British authorities. Fouad Kakaei, who steered a dinghy across the English Channel, was found not guilty at a second trial after appealing against his first conviction https://t.co/zUBQ7thWjA
- Prince Andrew can't ignore courts, says Virginia Giuffre's lawyer - Prince Andrew should allow a jury to decide what happened, David Boies, the lawyer of Virginia Giuffre, said https://t.co/2j7ObiUu0w
- #India’s police stations are human rights threat, says chief justice Nuthalapati Ramana issues extraordinary rebuke over ‘custodial torture and other police atrocities’ https://t.co/JOFgvuNGAf
- Joe Gavin departs ByrneWallace to head Maltese finance regulator - Irish Legal News https://t.co/m0mZcKWCNX
- SRA demands law firms confirm they are playing by transparency rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/aOGUHi3AWT
- NI: QUB School of Law admitted to Law Schools Global League - Irish Legal News https://t.co/97V8fKFYnw
- Aberdeen man who failed to appoint replacement contract administrator loses appeal on housebuilding dispute - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/NPDjdlO4Rz
- Emergency
Brexit powers for lorry queues to be made permanent. Exclusive:
ministers to make traffic provisions indefinite in expectation of
further cross-Channel disruption https://t.co/SRjuIJCvLZ
- The
Magistrates’ Association argues that if an offence is committed before a
young person’s 18th birthday, their case should be dealt with in youth
court | Law Gazette https://t.co/d5sk0Ri6yP
- MoJ ordered to look again at victims' compensation scheme | Law Gazette https://t.co/3YqxYYXAoB
