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22nd August - Law News

Edition 3526: 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: In Iraq, hundreds of children born to Yazidi mothers are either living as orphans or have been separated from their mothers. In addition to ISIL (ISIS) atrocities, Yazidis say the children born to ISIL fighters cannot be part of their religion.


Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Home Office urged to remove biometric barrier for Afghan nationals | Law Gazette https://t.co/z3vQ6Hcpj
  • Duff & Phelps begins £25m action against Crown Office - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/R2JrrS0UlY
  • Bar warns of reliance on informal police sanctions | Law Gazette https://t.co/JzkTA4yF3
  • Hamilton Mullan expands training programme - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lHI2G0zOSu
  • Teachers in England encouraged to tackle ‘incel’ movement in the classroom: New curriculum will give teachers flexibility to explore topics such as relationships and hatred of women https://t.co/KiwGwtIs3l
  • Court backs charities in will construction claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/TyKwZmNIUY 
  • Police unswayed by road-block ruling ahead of London climate protests https://t.co/giXHuYR6sy 
  • Gillian Ross appointed as Faculty’s new deputy director of training and education - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/aM6mCrdoyO
  • City partner rebuked for drink-drive conviction | Law Gazette https://t.co/OFVznNliU
  • NI: New infected blood payments introduced | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Bm2CN1f9t
  • Strathclyde announces John Fitzsimons scholarship for mature law students - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/e1pm48aIhN
  • Justice Samuel Alito briefly stayed a ruling from a federal judge that would have forced some asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while #US officials considered their cases https://t.co/LPmJ3Ur8jO
  • Village blogger libelled 'townie' neighbours in row over unregistered land | Law Gazette https://t.co/iZocQ458N
  • Welfare standards for dogs imported to the UK are to be tightened amid a rise in the "grim trade" of puppy smuggling https://t.co/n4iw1TJZ1E
  • NI: Military veterans support UK government’s controversial Troubles plan | Irish Legal News https://t.co/nuXMWYIuf
  • Blow for Uber as judge finds California’s gig-worker law unconstitutional #US https://t.co/H7ERbbZ8N
  • The UK should grant 10,000 EU lorry drivers visas to solve a labour crisis that has led to shortages of goods on British supermarket shelves, a lobby group says https://t.co/xv3vHTfKmk 
  • ‘Bleeding for Jesus’: book tells story of QC who pitilessly abused young men. A moral crusader was accused of targeting public schoolboys at Christian camps and administering ‘horrific’ beatings https://t.co/Z03fZVhmEy
  • New fair work criteria to promote flexibility - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/48vRBh5zT7
  • Police have released an image of a man wanted in connection with two murders. Detectives have told the public "not to approach" Lee Peacock, 49, who officers want to question about the killings in Westminster in central London https://t.co/bv94AxSpMN
  • #Greece has installed a 40km (25-mile) fence and surveillance system on its border with Turkey amid concern over a surge of migrants from Afghanistan https://t.co/bkCMxwn5uP
  • A former tour manager for #US R&B singer R. Kelly has testified that he bribed a government worker in 1994 to obtain a fake ID for then 15-year-old Aaliyah - so the singers could marry https://t.co/3ZYSQkYkZM
  • Hospitality staff say frustrated customers have left them demoralised and upset with some at "breaking point". The sector is facing staff shortages, with travel restrictions causing more people to holiday in the UK https://t.co/lADia3y8wB
  • Solicitor jailed for raping teenager is struck off | Law Gazette https://t.co/IHcV4POBXV
  • Scientist involved in Britain’s biggest ever tax fraud has 10 years added to sentence - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4PmdVCdvOU
  • ‘There’s a price to pay for everything’: why a local newspaper took a government watchdog to the supreme court #Australia https://t.co/GK895bQQle
  • Scottish government proposes women’s health plan to reduce inequalities - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/62RDN3PpFu
  • New cooperation in clinical negligence claims could last beyond pandemic | Law Gazette https://t.co/3n9IRTlH4z
  • Success for TFC members in planning judicial reviews - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3ZMu0yrjD
  • Trend of increasing value of Scottish fatal claims continues - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Q4YadQdBOE
  • #India's drug regulator has approved the world's first DNA vaccine against Covid-19 for emergency use https://t.co/XyuZViB8IO