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12th September - Law News

Edition 3547: 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:  The world is facing a stark choice with Afghanistan: accept the Taliban as the country's new leaders, or continue shutting them out. The group's been barred from accessing the Afghan Central Bank's foreign assets worth 10 billion dollars, and aid has dried up. The UN warns 97% of the population could be living in poverty within a year. So what will the international community do now?


Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Donald Findlay QC launches website - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/3GFOho6zO0
  • Means test to be removed for bereaved families in ECF cases | Law Gazette https://t.co/Rsnq8kQqf
  • Alan McKee joins board of Business Beats Cancer Glasgow - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/PxWExvmDpJ
  • Court adds City firm and ex-partner to hacking conspiracy claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/5chPUgkTTp
  • Police investigate Didsbury Mosque fire as hate crime https://t.co/QWoSCDMEt
  • Legal action planned as NHS closes doors to new patients at East Lothian hospital - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/wRKkAyc9xZ
  • Digital divorce portal to become mandatory | Law Gazette https://t.co/OpFo63p6pc
  • #Spain Arrests Former Venezuela Spy Chief Accused of Drug Trafficking https://t.co/M4xkcX5DKo
  • A banner supporting a woman who accused footballer Cristiano Ronaldo of a sex assault has been flown over Old Trafford during his return game for Manchester United: The Level Up feminist group said they wanted to "remind crowds" of rape allegations https://t.co/4ivaq8nDpA 
  • Blog: Managing risk throughout the construction materials shortage - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/RnYHg6tz5
  • Manchester super court opens in battle against the backlog | Law Gazette https://t.co/9gFq8Z5Hts 
  • 20 Years On, the War on Terror Grinds Along With No End in Sight - Only the weapon manufacturers and contractors benefit https://t.co/ta5TQSq37W
  • Prince Andrew's team do not believe that legal papers from lawyers for the woman who has accused him of sexual abuse have been successfully served https://t.co/SbcgwBZlLb
  • Six men arrested in £160m cocaine haul off Plymouth coast https://t.co/5IzJKvLTFE
  • ‘My son misses his Papa’: Brexit rules force families to split: Partners and spouses are being kept apart by Home Office delays in processing revised versions of entry permits to Britain https://t.co/39oFinuH20 
  • Inaugural Theresa Hunt Prize in Excellence awarded - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/jBztYGwjmx 
  • Solicitor-judge takes government to court over disability struggles | Law Gazette https://t.co/gOAf8DxJHD
  • ‘Every message was copied to the police’: the inside story of the most daring surveillance sting in history #Australia https://t.co/TCQeMTpstW
  • Bar sticks to its guns over harsher sexual misconduct sanctions | Law Gazette https://t.co/EIwzkOkF2Y
  • Declassified documents show #Australia assisted CIA in coup against Chile’s Salvador Allende https://t.co/dL8kuM10q4
  • In US Drone Strike in #Afghanistan, Evidence Suggests No ISIS Bomb https://t.co/XWZLoVbXkE
  • Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers across dozens of countries https://t.co/KfsxcIkcF7
  • England: ‘Super courtroom’ to allow for trials of up to 12 defendants - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/v2Kf7CMG7o
  • #US military trial of 9/11 suspects drags on 20 years after attack: Torture, secrecy and dysfunction plague military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay with no resolution in sight https://t.co/pywnaYZKNZ 
  • Defendant solicitors and their clients will welcome fixed costs expansion | Law Gazette https://t.co/GU6ugMrhW
  • How Southeast Asia’s hardline groups saw September 11 attacks - Groups like Jemaah Islamiyah were already carrying out attacks in Southeast Asia when 9/11 happened – an attack of an altogether larger scale https://t.co/rO2acb0SqG
  • Fraud warnings not good enough for young adults, says charity https://t.co/YuLNdVlVBb
  • Tax on landlords could help pay for social care, says the Labour leader https://t.co/5RSPqq6Vww 
  • Obituary - Kingsley Williams, who has died aged 94, was a solicitor who served on a number of public bodies in the Hampshire area from 1960 onwards https://t.co/kvMQQmUU4V
  • Defendant solicitors and their clients will welcome fixed costs expansion | Law Gazette https://t.co/GU6ugMISNV
  • Faculty and SEMLA event: How to become an Advocate - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/CCiNYkAGUR
  • A judge has issued an arrest warrant for a woman accused of killing two of her children in a crash on the M1. Mary McCann, 35, of Bamford Avenue, Derby, failed to appear at Aylesbury Crown Court https://t.co/3gu04j5CSv
  • What is happening on court-imposable PPOs for Scotland? - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JNcorD7xiG 
  • The Northern Ireland Protocol and the limits to ‘creativity and flexibility’ - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/9SNuaPdmzG
  • Lucy-Anne Rushton murder detective jailed for witness signature forgery https://t.co/OuQFP8RPZt
  • Glasgow sheriff orders Brexit Party to pay £22k in unpaid invoices to advertising firm - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/syv6lLkkjo