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23rd September - Law News

Edition 3558: 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:  MPs have launched a blistering attack on the social media giant Google for failing to tackle online fraud. A member of the Treasury Select Committee accused Google of profiting from advertising fraud. Google says it's doing everything it can to stem the problems. But today the banking industry warned fraud was a threat to national security.  


Focus of the Day Story:  Probate practitioners have called for legislative change to help families access the 'digital assets' of relatives who have died. A study by STEP – a professional body for inheritance planning advisers – and Queen Mary University of London found that there is a lack of clarity around property rights relating to digital assets. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
 
Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Fragomen launches immigration programme for Scottish students - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/YNN6dAwqo
  • Analysis: Age discrimination payout against nursing home a warning for employers | Irish Legal News https://t.co/bUhwysaqDB 
  • ‘Check your clients’ - Insurer’s plea to PI lawyers after fraudster jailed | Law Gazette https://t.co/o7Mv34oRC8 
  • Ministers urged to stop ‘hiding from scrutiny’ by blocking FoI requests. Six departments spent total of at least £500k in four years trying to block requests, openDemocracy finds https://t.co/kYifhPwzNK
  • Scottish Land Commission invites Orkney residents to online public meeting - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/bd2mT5xntz S
  • The family of a primary school teacher who was killed in a south-east London park say they have been left "devastated" by her death. The body of Sabina Nessa was found by a member of the public in Cator Park, Kidbrooke, on Saturday https://t.co/AoRgueJdFo
  • Mishcon joins forces with top-200 firm to create innovation business | News | Law Gazette https://t.co/r4DvQz0uAT
  • Reform law on 'digital assets', probate lawyers urge | Law Gazette https://t.co/z04NwzhBN2
  • Greenwashing: CMA puts businesses on notice - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/G7DhSvUTBn 
  • Gregor Sim joins Mackinnons LLP - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/M5FLAMfxBJ
  • Treasury 'could save £4bn next year' supporting free legal advice | Law Gazette https://t.co/o9BLATYXH8
  • Armstrong Solicitors hires chief operating officer while eyeing growth | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Y3AWANFwRv
  • Barrister waived privilege in document by showing it to opposing counsel - Legal Futures https://t.co/MPmTf9c1YI
  • Northern Ireland to pilot programme looking at role of masculinity in offending | Irish Legal News https://t.co/bnpkpetQyG
  • NI victims’ commissioner to be established on non-statutory basis | Irish Legal News https://t.co/HsUkqhaD4l
  • Solicitor claims discrimination against SRA over epic 15-year dispute | Law Gazette https://t.co/zofO2y02uq 
  • SRA board to shrink to just nine members - Legal Futures https://t.co/8HqglTho4
  • Dmitry Dedov, Russia’s judge at the European Court of Human Rights, gave a partly dissenting opinion in today’s long-awaited judgment in the case brought by the widow of Alexander Litvinenko against the Russian state - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SemIBMuIm9
  • Tribunal declines to strike out pupillage discrimination claim - Legal Futures https://t.co/H5UkmAPHSH 
  • Killamarsh deaths: Man charged with murders of three children and woman https://t.co/hmMMLQDvST
  • A court injunction has been granted to National Highways against protesters targeting the M25, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said https://t.co/YxGEoPgnN
  • Environmental activists face prison for further efforts to block M25 https://t.co/nH3BrL8QjY
  • Ashurst and DLA Piper among Ireland’s latest LLPs - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/f4nS9SGY2N
  • To protect the #US supreme court’s legitimacy, a conservative justice should step down https://t.co/HxdIEYucja
  • Lady Hale appears on Desert Island Discs - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ZfysMpa1bM
  • Three law firm leaders cash in minority stake to share £7m windfall | Law Gazette https://t.co/ApSz5RqT90
  • The parents of Harry Dunn have reached a "resolution" in a civil claim for damages with the woman alleged to have killed him, the family's spokesman has said https://t.co/2CSDvS0BuQ