Edition 3535: 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: When the Ever Given became stuck in the Suez canal in March 2021, people woke up to the sheer size of these megaships. But these vessels, which now dominate container shipping, have been quietly ballooning in size for more than 50 years, and even doubling in capacity every few years since the turn of the millennium. The bigger they have grown, the more problems they have caused for consumers and producers, problems that extend much further than getting stuck
Focus of the Day Article: In 2009 the EU embarked on a roadmap for strengthening procedural rights of suspects and accused persons in criminal proceedings. An instrument of this kind had been attempted before but was too ambitious – not least as the UK blocked it. But Sweden was determined as part of its six-month EU Presidency to get a step-by-step approach agreed. The safeguards were seen as an important response to the mutual recognition project that produced the European arrest warrant, investigation order, supervision order, instrument on transfer of prisoners and various others. The UK in fact concluded that these were necessary law enforcement measures in 2014 when it exercised the Protocol 36 to the Lisbon Treaty option to depart from police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters, and then opted back into 35. Full story - UK Human Rights Blog
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- The Corporate Counsel Show: Accepting healthy conflict - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/MeMtjp2E0A
- Moray & Agnew to donate to UNICEF for every employee who gets vaccine - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/bhM7r6BqFe
- The European Union recommended a pause on all non-essential travel from the US as Covid-19 cases surge https://t.co/dzICm16qJm
- Laws on media coverage of sexual offences: Time for a rethink? | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/RyQ415QFNB
- Pivoting when one-third of your fee earners are taking maternity leave - Lawyers Weekly #Australia https://t.co/1fQpJygxH0
- Supreme Court to commence physical hearing with hybrid option from September 1, issues SOP | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/jp89m4hBoj
- UK councils urged to offer housing and support to fleeing Afghans https://t.co/UYSV0xeYV4
- The role of a legal representative in place of a deceased employer | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/ffaAcbB2lv
- A new law aimed at making school uniforms cheaper in England and Wales will not be in place in time for the start of this school year https://t.co/AnblPjOrHC
- #Australia’s merger laws are ‘failing to protect competition’ - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/4X8jdnFCdt
- UK republicans take heart from royals’ recent travails https://t.co/EMkEyAGJii
- Majority of Northern Irish voters want vote on staying in UK https://t.co/cMlcpBZZwv
- The Sun pays damages to Ben Stokes over family tragedy story - Tabloid apologises to cricketer and his mother and says 2019 article should not have been published https://t.co/QLRxu2vlWb
- Kidnapped, raped and wed against their will: #Kyrgyz women’s fight against a brutal tradition https://t.co/B2FgkGlI7f
- Head of #Australia PM’s department halts inquiry around Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation https://t.co/dAGBPLDlZ5
- Online gamers under the age of 18 will only be allowed to play for an hour on Fridays, weekends and holidays, #China's video game regulator has said https://t.co/NWZMTXXuPB
- The Weekly Round-Up: Afghanistan, disability equality, and unregulated accommodation - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/M59EPAnsdy
- Calcutta High Court declines to interfere in dispute over WB Bar Council letter to remove Acting CJ | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/4EqXg8wcwC
- Armed gang members in #Brazil have taken a number of people hostage during their getaway following a bank robbery in the city of Araçatuba. Footage recorded by locals shows getaway vehicles with people tied to their roofs and hoods https://t.co/n40I2mZc7W
- The Guardian view on official secrets: plans that undermine democracy | Editorial https://t.co/1MYmYetUos
- Why the new policing bill threatens our right to protest - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ZMdK60wZtf
- An Uber driver from Hampshire and a shopkeeper from north London were among those who died in the Kabul attack. Mohammad Niazi and Musa Popal were killed after blasts shook the #Afghan capital on Thursday https://t.co/mUcomDG4wx
- Workers
in England and Wales are being fobbed off with a "stingy" number of
bank holidays, say trades unions. They get eight public holidays a year,
which is four fewer than the EU average and half the number in Japan https://t.co/IqV0oNPkOP
- People travelling to the UK from Canada and Denmark will not need to isolate as the UK's latest Covid travel rules have come into force https://t.co/flo3Z6I7BW
- Safeguards for suspects and accused persons in criminal proceedings in the EU - Jodie Blackstock - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/ouxeepwgDD
- End-of-life choices are being limited by insurance companies https://t.co/LWV4nFYyAg
- 10 things students should know about the SQE - Legal Cheek https://t.co/vp1wZ7KuNf
- Extinction Rebellion activists glued to Science Museum site in Shell protest https://t.co/VLGclqAmz6
- Spate of attacks across UK sparks fear among LGBTQ+ community https://t.co/hNT0PHShkr
- EAGLEGATE Lawyers welcomes BigLaw associate - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/6UNlplBuVj
