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18th August - Law News

Edition 3522: 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: Speaking to Afghan women about what the Taliban's return to power means for them and their daughters.

  Focus of the Day Article:
Lawyers compelled by the Civil Procedure Rules or court order to reveal the content or existence of suspicious activity reports (SARs) must contact the National Crime Agency (NCA) at the “first opportunity”, the Home Office has said. Full story - Legal Futures


Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Save our Afghan colleagues, urges united profession | Law Gazette https://t.co/Jbmr6ltFXg
  • Malcolm McGregor takes on Pyrenees Stage Run in aid of charity - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SnrIGLifV
  • Firms enticed by new City developments | Law Gazette https://t.co/hWyuz1o2BU
  • Dr CiarĂ¡n O’Kelly promoted to senior lecturer at QUB | Irish Legal News https://t.co/XQGnyQLnPe
  • Mastercard to end magnetic strip on cards - The UK moved to chip-and-pin for all card payments in 2006, but in the US, some magnetic strip systems are still in use https://t.co/h2rmSA0uaD 
  • Digby Brown raises more than £14,000 for charity - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/DxcQZjY4im 
  • Start-ups boosted by £1.2m investment and top judge hire - Legal Futures https://t.co/MiR1EWauzh
  • Kevin Clarke death: police watchdog reopens investigation - Mentally ill man was heard saying ‘I can’t breathe’ while being restrained by Met officers in London https://t.co/phgGC7S3Hr
  • Master of the Rolls accepts recommended changes to guideline hourly rates | Courts and Tribunals Judiciary https://t.co/3Bb0Cp0v0I 
  • Fears for female judges in Afghanistan | Law Gazette https://t.co/pwwbKQRaSC
  • A man who shot and killed five people had received useless support from mental health services during the coronavirus lockdown, it has emerged. After killing five people in Plymouth, Jake Davison turned his gun on himself https://t.co/OX8UfRTuJV
  • A man has been found guilty of murdering a teenager in the early hours of New Year's Day after a conflict between two households on a street. Callum Aylett, 21, stabbed Jay Fathers, 18, to death and injured another man in Milton Keynes https://t.co/1Q2mmKwZQ
  • Start-ups boosted by £1.2m investment and top judge hire - Legal Futures https://t.co/MiR1EVSTaH
  • #Pakistan appoints first woman judge to the Supreme Court: Justice Ayesha A Malik was nominated to the role by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed, and she will remain in that position until March 2031 https://t.co/GXdeKZOc9T
  • He Stayed Afloat Selling $3 Tacos. Now He Faces $2,000 in Fines, People who lost jobs in the pandemic began to peddle food and wares to survive, but the city is starting to crack down on unlicensed vendors #US https://t.co/RpQjLNYSui
  • Dublin solicitor Eamonn Carney to cycle to Cork for charity | Irish Legal News https://t.co/lTumkR2KtO 
  • Fast-growing virtual legal business launches global trade mark service - Legal Futures https://t.co/QcygYA6hGh
  • Facebook could be forced to undo $400m merger with Giphy - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lKeAlwKeTR
  • Solicitor faces SRA probe over Taliban tweet - Legal Futures https://t.co/k0LKucLGpT 
  • HMCTS revamps probate service ahead of fee rise | Law Gazette https://t.co/PYKUrywQfJ
  • Witness evidence reforms – significant but not extreme https://t.co/UAO5wXMNGu 
  • Four Courts scaffolding to come down during courts vacation | Irish Legal News https://t.co/vZ5Ei5Xx8z
  • Refugee projects awarded £2.8 million - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/wTYoj9UPFr
  • Thousands could have isolated for no reason due to Covid app error, says source'. Whitehall whistleblower says Matt Hancock was told of mistake where people were classed as close contacts for five days, not two https://t.co/jjfHAA6oVW 
  • Solicitor wins £10,000 social innovation prize | Law Gazette https://t.co/sEn11TV0xh 
  • Lawyer of the Month: Paul Tweed | Irish Legal News https://t.co/d9oRTtnqNm
  • #NewZealand has announced a snap lockdown after a man tested positive for Covid, the first case in six months. The case was detected in Auckland, which will be in lockdown for a week https://t.co/gq9NbFj10K 
  • The skill and talent of refugees - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ZVpGWd7DR9 
  • PCR tests for travel have become "a predictable Covid rip-off", says the ex-chair of the Competition and Markets Authority, Lord Tyrie https://t.co/nqRcUIo251 
  • Women’s rights are under attack around the world because of a belief in a fascistic natural order that naturalises male supremacy https://t.co/eVcFOCuJNO
  • Lawyers being punished for insurers' costs elsewhere, says regulator | Law Gazette https://t.co/vw2Y8wqHFp 
  • Geronimo the alpaca gets temporary reprieve ahead of review - Geronimo twice tested positive for bovine tuberculosis, and the Department of Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) has ordered he be euthanised https://t.co/bp60ZkBAiI 
  • A proposed code of practice covering police use of live facial recognition in England and Wales has been criticised by human rights groups. Live facial-recognition systems compare faces captured on closed-circuit television with those on a watch-list https://t.co/O6hbdZLmFI 
  • 'Women-sufficiency' may be the funnel performance metrics contributor in the coming Cycle of Economy and demography | Esther Ochoga https://t.co/DNNw4d6Vc2 
  • Pakistani family find refuge in EU after death threats over false blasphemy claims - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/c3UaUOY4Xk 
  • Pakistani family find refuge in EU after death threats over false blasphemy claims - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/c3UaUPfGlU 
  • Fife house sells for £600,000 over asking price - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/DqmFUGLeMr 
  • In the City lateral market today, rapid evolution and an increasing appetite to hire in quantity from a competitor has been driven, in the main, by US firms | Law Gazette https://t.co/oGanqg7zXh 
  • Bob Dylan accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old in 1965 - A lawsuit, filed Friday, alleges the Nobel laureate plied a girl with drugs and alcohol and abused her over six weeks in 1965 https://t.co/t6mtL0wkGH
  • Funding to tackle violence against women and girls - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/iWehWFcznZ
  • Online harms and freedom of expression | Law Gazette https://t.co/82yMHCYbpp 
  • Customers should think carefully about handing over personal data when ordering food and drink via their mobile phones, the UK's body overseeing data privacy suggests https://t.co/1EWkBuX6sB