Edition 3543: 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 parents of a seven-month-old baby who is stranded in Kabul without them say they are losing hope that they will be able to get her to the UK. They say a five month delay in receiving their baby's British passport means their daughter is stuck in Afghanistan with grandparents. The mother and British father say they had no choice but to return to the UK in May to retain the mother's UK visa.
Focus of the Day Story: The High Court has granted summary judgment in favour of a law firm and its senior partner and dismissed a £2.7m negligence claim. Mr Justice Henshaw ruled that the first element of the claim by businessman Matthew Williams against Cornish firm Merricks Solicitors and Richard Merrick was time-barred and the second element had no real prospect of success. Full story - Legal Futures
Focus of the Day Story: The High Court has granted summary judgment in favour of a law firm and its senior partner and dismissed a £2.7m negligence claim. Mr Justice Henshaw ruled that the first element of the claim by businessman Matthew Williams against Cornish firm Merricks Solicitors and Richard Merrick was time-barred and the second element had no real prospect of success. Full story - Legal Futures
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Should City firms cut the polluters loose? | Law Gazette https://t.co/HO5fZWpZk
- Age discrimination payout ‘a warning’ for employers | Irish Legal News https://t.co/YfHJ2Q7ov
- Rebuke for solicitor who shared offensive Facebook posts | Law Gazette https://t.co/KPiwL3Vtn7
- High Court: Costs awarded against applicant for ‘utterly inappropriate and completely unnecessary’ interim injunction | Irish Legal News https://t.co/MVmKCEkGO1
- ‘Staying on’ in the EU | Law Gazette https://t.co/wFifFd7iHP
- Multi-party litigation ‘should form part’ of anti-racism action plan | Irish Legal News https://t.co/jR5BcFsY3S
- A man who didn't mind the gap between the train and platform while getting off a London Underground service was not seen by two drivers, a report has found https://t.co/mBZ9TWhyyb
- The Scottish government is to resume making the case for independence - with the goal of holding a referendum by the end of 2023 https://t.co/jgIefiUMVv
- Going
back on Tory election manifesto declaration, Boris Johnson outlines new
1.25% health and social care tax to pay for reforms https://t.co/VPtiIajNP9
- Judicial independence under threat – in the EU | Law Gazette https://t.co/bxhRi2W9VX
- Series on Brexit statutory instruments published - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JA7CLpdUHh
- My legal life: Dr Michelle Chen, gunnercooke - Profile | Law Gazette https://t.co/Lbsg4ixDfs
- Criminal case completions rise by 83 per cent in Scottish courts - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yJtyUHSOa2
- Former CPS solicitor rebuked for offensive Facebook posts - Legal Futures https://t.co/SW50g3ZiuD
- Ince boss enjoys one-off £500,000 'incentive' | Law Gazette https://t.co/4ujr0bCjsK
- Pioneering ABS wants to be "national local government leader" - Legal Futures https://t.co/Og1est8ied
- Is sub judice substandard? - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/incChA88y3
- Police Scotland has admitted that failures in its call handling system "materially contributed" to a young woman's death following a car crash on the M9 six years ago https://t.co/xjel9ggUJ
- High Court dismisses £2.7m law firm negligence claim - Legal Futures https://t.co/lZjiuvITiw
- ‘Overstretched and under-resourced’: tax tribunals under pressure | Law Gazette https://t.co/yockMYMaFF
- Ministry of Justice to press ahead with fixed costs expansion - Legal Futures https://t.co/qbVtbyolz
- Not every lease of land is an agricultural lease - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/wiOf6LBhnf
- #Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has signed a decree aimed at restricting the powers of social media companies to remove far-right accounts and content https://t.co/CryTwLw4Z6
- #Palestinian
Authority Indicts 14 Security Force Members in Activist’s Death - The
family of Nizar Banat, who was known for his fierce online criticism,
say more senior Palestinian officials should also face consequences
after he was beaten to death https://t.co/qqN5pTWtkO
- The
#US Justice Department says it will protect clinics that perform
abortions in Texas, a state with a near-total ban on voluntary pregnancy
terminations https://t.co/1K5axDv9Vp
- Financial results: Big firms saw big gains despite pandemic - but why? | Law Gazette https://t.co/ovvPB9BezE
- Covid year saw surge in enquiries to Shared Parenting Scotland - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/DiB4jbRI2
- A&L Goodbody welcomes seven associates in Belfast | Irish Legal News https://t.co/lOwwbJ9Lpl
- Afghan lawyers’ plea to UK: save us from clutches of the Taliban | Law Gazette https://t.co/QkNWG7Izqb
- Kennedys appoints first-ever legal directors in Dublin and Belfast | Irish Legal News https://t.co/VsGcukwNoP
- Biden under pressure as NGO says flights from Afghanistan blocked #US https://t.co/LReXCU90Ms
- Lawyers co-ordinate effort to help Afghans desperate to escape | Law Gazette https://t.co/8Cjt9y3476
- GP staff facing abuse from patients over cancelled blood tests https://t.co/4y7oMCR9lk
- The
families of those killed in the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine in
2014 have begun to testify at the trial of four suspects https://t.co/HVJ8OwjK2f
- More global aid goes to fossil fuel projects than tackling dirty air – study https://t.co/7aQr18ACIc
