Edition 3509: 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:
Solicitors Regulation Authority webinar on 'Restricting fees in financial mis-selling work'
Solicitors Regulation Authority webinar on 'Restricting fees in financial mis-selling work'
Focus of the Day Article:
An employment judge has dismissed claims that a lawyer was repeatedly harassed and discriminated against, warning that courts should not ‘impose legal liability to every unfortunate phrase’. An in-house legal counsel accused pharmaceutical company PSI CRO of discrimination because of sex and age, sexual harassment, harassment related to age and/or sexual orientation and victimisation, after losing her job in 2017. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Richard Douglas-Home: OTS recommendations for the simplification of CGT - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/EeXzXTx7RD
- Dr Brian Hunt: President’s concerns about legislative process are not new - Irish Legal News https://t.co/AL0mn9YN3
- Thompsons Solicitors establishes financial misselling unit - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/R1GWUhU2u9
- Stonehenge tunnel plans continue despite high court ruling - Highways England says it is proceeding with £1.7bn scheme after judge declared it unlawful https://t.co/u6hnI4jSHN
- Discrimination based on your name alone is a stubborn reality in Britain today - Until society confronts institutional and cultural racism, such inequalities will be immune to changes in the law https://t.co/BHCwev5JnI
- High-value alleged fraud in Scotland reaches more than £2.5m in first half of the year - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/0Z27Ot5E7E
- An Old Bailey judge has asked prosecutors if they stand by convictions of Extinction Rebellion protesters after a second successful appeal in two days. Judge Mark Dennis QC demanded the review after a protester won his appeal against obstructing a road https://t.co/9vzpRvUYC
- Footballer Jamie Vardy's phone can be inspected as part of a libel battle between his wife and Coleen Rooney, a judge has ruled. Rebekah Vardy is suing Rooney for libel after Rooney claimed fake stories had been leaked to newspapers by Vardy's Instagram https://t.co/4q5LUnlLYN
- Veteran charity runner robbed at knifepoint near Burton upon Trent - Phil Hammond, from Leeds, was stopped by a man in Barton-under-Needwood, near Burton upon Trent, on Monday evening, Staffordshire Police said https://t.co/UIxaNJj4K8
- Guideline hourly rates: an assessment | Law Gazette https://t.co/XqjQ9ktO6N
- Scottish government opens £6.7 million support fund for legal aid firms - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/X0OOZcw0T
- TLT’s Stephen McGowan publishes new book on Scottish alcohol licensing law - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/YXcyihV2m2
- ‘Evasive and prevaricative’ perjuress mother who ‘relished all of the attention’ held in contempt of court - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/a7XuH2gS69
- Law Society adds to criticism of PM over ‘left-wing’ lawyers remarks - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/zI2JFJqT0K
- RT @SteveMartinToGo: What’s happening? Banjo! https://t.co/Vfy1ss1VMk
- Customers of doorstep lender Provident Financial can claim compensation for mis-sold loans after the High Court backed a partial repayment scheme. The company has set aside £50m to meet claims from borrowers who were sold unaffordable loans https://t.co/luvgOx4BFR
- A footballer took his own life and had cocaine in his system when he was found dead in a hotel room, an inquest heard. Yeovil Town captain Lee Collins, 32, was discovered by the club's assistant manager Terry Skiverton on 31 March https://t.co/rz5joEPV5
- SDT warns solicitors about their personal lives | Law Gazette https://t.co/xCSWtEUyS
- Partner who lied to SRA and indemnity insurer is struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/DUV43Yl9tF
- BHSM welcomes Rachel Nangle to commercial real estate team - Irish Legal News https://t.co/wPa3YR7DtN
- Government promises “integrated online dispute resolution” - Legal Futures https://t.co/9NIdvLGaQW
- Lawyer of the Month: David Cobb - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/IGwxFYvz0
- "A scandal within a scandal": Call to investigate Post Office lawyers - Legal Futures https://t.co/U3j75cHNJt
- Government has seen no evidence to connect barrister pay cuts with recruitment issues - Irish Legal News https://t.co/agWRqGklZT
- Amazon
Faces Wider Fight Over Labor Practices: A second union vote may be
held at an Alabama warehouse, and new tactics by the Teamsters and other
groups aim to pressure Amazon across the #US https://t.co/6MbyHz1hxw
- New consolidator enters market with plans to build £100m firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/l3CL3LrOZ
- MP Maria Miller wants a parliamentary debate on whether digitally generated nude images need to be banned. It comes as another service which allows users to undress women in photos, using Artificial intelligence (AI), spreads rapidly on social media https://t.co/0Qm09yAC8N
- Judge warns of 'hypersensitivity' in lawyer's harassment claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/Y4BqfOlJGR
- SEMLA and NatWest Group to hold diversity event - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Ksb3yDm7Y
- Addleshaw Goddard sees profits of £136m - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Enxm0f8dDt
- #Iraq Reclaims 17,000 Looted Artifacts, Its Biggest-Ever Repatriation https://t.co/RiodEZ8Mgx
- Head of judges' body backs call for 17 more High Court judges - Irish Legal News https://t.co/GIPctQf1UT
- Are plans to change the Official Secrets Act a threat to journalism? https://t.co/wVnjyojXss
- Amazon slapped with €746m fine over alleged GDPR breaches - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JUMEWPI1Bm
- Penal policy report to be published in the autumn - Irish Legal News https://t.co/dSJQrxu9rb
- Investigators said they corroborated the claims of 11 women who accused New York governor Cuomo of inappropriate behavior, from suggestive comments to instances of groping #US https://t.co/s11AR9yQxM
- Rupert bare: how the Oz obscenity trial inspired a generation of protest art https://t.co/39GJY2LSMw
- Met police seek judicial review over senior black officer’s reinstatement - Force insists it was correct to sack decorated black female officer who was sent unsolicited child abuse video https://t.co/LaUb07p616
- Paradise Birmingham: DLA Piper office goes fully flexible | Law Gazette https://t.co/NqBbwmgKAW
- A Panama-flagged ship has been hijacked by armed men in the Gulf of Oman and ordered to sail to Iran, Lloyds List Maritime Intelligence has confirmed. The bitumen tanker MV Asphalt Princess is heading into the congested approach to the Strait of Hormuz https://t.co/xXACvtJj44
- Define to Defeat: Perceptions of Sexual Harassment. Subtitle: If we only define “Sexual Harassment” in the way we have until now, we will never be able to defeat it. | Paula Koller https://t.co/JN6fAGHSR
- Ban on ticket touting comes into effect - Irish Legal News https://t.co/WUQgXngef
- Partner promotion and senior hire for Anderson Strathern - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yCl23o4JW
- Profits rise to £614m at DLA Piper - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/8XvNvBMYbi
- Matheson appoints Niamh Counihan as pro bono partner - Irish Legal News https://t.co/HCIPxRGWCB
- NI: Lewis Silkin joins forces with Belfast-based Jones Cassidy Brett - Irish Legal News https://t.co/4hzyflbIL
- DLA Piper to move to larger Dublin premises - Irish Legal News https://t.co/bLv1eVDXNt
- EU citizens seeking settled status being detained and threatened - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1CDKrW4ivN
- FBI used pictures of staff for undercover sex crime stings #US https://t.co/0BWwoOSFh7
- Seven men have been found guilty of murdering a student who was shot dead in a feud between two tyre firm owners. Aya Hachem, 19, was mistakenly killed in the botched drive-by shooting in Blackburn on 17 May last year https://t.co/BHsIHq6Ze9
- Helensburgh castle residents fail to challenge ejection decree obtained by trustee in sequestration - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/eQ9K15e2k
- Officer dies after being stabbed outside Pentagon, officials say #US https://t.co/JrBRNhV3gR
- Former monk sentenced for historical sexual offences against children - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BNioRlZSSk
