Edition 3585: 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: In Brazil, a congressional inquiry has reportedly recommended President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with crimes against humanity over the handling of the pandemic. The report is the culmination of six months of hearings that have revealed a series of scandals and corruption schemes within the government and the errors that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths.
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- UK competition watchdog has music streaming in its sights https://t.co/qcHfEtyyZ
- Legal academics defend Professor Kathleen Stock - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/2lBY3BO7TL
- A protester has been arrested for a public order offence after a mock gallows was erected outside Parliament. The action was part of a small anti-vaccine protest https://t.co/CgGaxOqX0A
- A former English National Ballet principal dancer who used his "fame and prestige" to sexually assault his students has been jailed. Yat-Sen Chang, 50, attacked girls and women https://t.co/Rwy9rx8bwR
- Terror threat against MPs raised to substantial - home secretary Patel https://t.co/FMzIZxaL0e
- #Morocco bans UK flights due to Covid cases rising https://t.co/usRiBoMrp
- Insulate Britain: Injunction banning protests on London's roads extended https://t.co/Ma9gkIbo2C
- New digital platform to be introduced for evidence - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/bruwoKuj3I
- European lawmakers and competition authorities focus on tech transactions https://t.co/80fkpsbYWY
- Court orders that SRA be given access to shut down firm’s files | Law Gazette https://t.co/GZiKMPvMpX
- Facebook and Instagram remove 'magician' who incited murder https://t.co/O6PFZGPWJU
- Woman stabs husband and tells police ‘I admit it all’, footage shows - Penelope Jackson, 66, said she hoped ‘bully’ David Jackson, 78, could not be saved, in video shown to Bristol crown court https://t.co/X6fyjF8tBK
- Lawyers must defend judiciary, senior American judge tells Edinburgh audience - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/wf3tnU2B26
- Trump files lawsuit to block release of Capitol attack records #US https://t.co/eiWk5Cks0A
- Simpson & Marwick’s David Coutts has become dual accredited in both family and child law by the Law Society of Scotland - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/wgb8cELaba
- ‘My friends called him PC Perv’: the police officers who prey on crime victims for sex https://t.co/mqHpvKX0VI
- In the first eight months of 2021, at least 79 girls with disabilities have been subjected to rape in the country, according to a recent report by the National Girl Child Advocacy Forum #Bangladesh https://t.co/J75lOOtAU8
- Purported assignee of standard security relying on redacted document ruled to have no title to enforce by Glasgow sheriff - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/0nLhpFLbfw
- Soft Law and Externalisation of European Border Management: between Political Effectivity and Legal Validity | Martino Reviglio https://t.co/VPAwWMbkoP
- Rebranded council ABS 'not trying to compete with private practice' | Law Gazette https://t.co/ElyRAt2O2e
- Plain-clothes officers in London will video call a uniformed colleague to confirm their identity when stopping a lone woman, the new system would be introduced after Sarah Everard was murdered by a serving officer who faked an arrest in order to kidnap her https://t.co/CngLIK6IR1
- Metaverse “could help law firms with remote working” - Legal Futures https://t.co/72kkLvvFmQ
- Fleeing Taliban rule, Kabul's last Jew divorces wife over Zoom to be allowed into #Israel https://t.co/rPCPLtDxmA
- Real
Madrid striker Karim Benzema has gone on trial in #France accused of
complicity in an attempt to blackmail fellow footballer Mathieu Valbuena
over a sex tape found on his phone https://t.co/uJDSiIwJ5u
- Disappointment after government confirmed it would reject almost all the changes made to the Environment Bill by the House of Lords. The changes included a legal duty on water companies to reduce sewage damage to rivers & protection of ancient woodlands https://t.co/5p6SXotkby
- Largest ever legal aid inquiry calls for independent fee review | Law Gazette https://t.co/qz4XXVOIRV
- MPs and peers urge 25% pay rise for legal aid lawyers - Legal Futures https://t.co/17gLHaPthW
- Two former #German soldiers have been arrested on suspicion of trying to form a terrorist mercenary force to fight in Yemen's civil war, prosecutors say. Arend-Adolf G and Achim A face terrorism charges after police raids in southern Germany on Wednesday https://t.co/iSgBN2j1gY
- Last week, an #Indian man was given a rare double-life sentence for killing his wife by making a cobra bite her. Soutik Biswas and Ashraf Padanna piece together the events leading to the grisly murder https://t.co/7KSfASJYwr
- [Shahjahanpur lawyer murder] UP Bar Council asks Bar Associations to abstain from judicial work on Wednesday | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/l3m66IY2s5
- BSB signals tougher approach to transparency rules compliance - Legal Futures https://t.co/Pf8USxNYlI
- #US lawmakers investigating the 6 January Capitol riot have unanimously supported holding top aide of ex-President Donald Trump, Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress https://t.co/PkICvtaqO7
- Ex-stripper drops ET claim after being refused right to anonymity | Law Gazette https://t.co/JYOEKthOU9
- A man is being treated in hospital with life-threatening injuries after being stabbed on a night bus in east London. The victim was found just before 01:00 BST on Wednesday, suffering stab wounds on board a Route N25 bus outside Mile End Tube station https://t.co/5KHfSVaq3X
- The Nationality and Borders Bill threatens to create a two-tier asylum system which could result in more unsafe and perilous journeys, according to the Law Society of Scotland - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/uHsyf9G0SL
- Submarine Spy Case: Couple Stewed Over Money and Politics - Jonathan and Diana Toebbe, charged with trying to sell classified nuclear secrets to a foreign power, struggled with finances, family and the state of #America https://t.co/rcpm2Avvnw
- Dozens of Afghan families staying in hotels as part of a scheme to resettle them are declaring themselves homeless. More than 200 families have asked councils in London for emergency accommodation https://t.co/apAotsQ8wI
- The
NHS Confederation said a back-up Covid strategy, or Plan B, which
includes mandatory face coverings in crowded and enclosed spaces, should
be implemented if England is to avoid "stumbling into a winter crisis"
https://t.co/ECm1yHsCSs
- Cancel Culture Is Not the Problem - It’s time to stop litigating whether these punishments are fair and to start thinking about why some behaviors seemed OK in the first place https://t.co/YAwSkhBIPw
- 'Huge increase in political litigation': Braverman defends JR reforms | Law Gazette https://t.co/tjFuKvwC2Y
- With the business use of artificial intelligence (AI) on the rise, there are key legal and contractual risks that businesses using, or supplying, AI need to consider - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/NYSGAP30lx
- Janner child abuse claims: police guilty of failing to investigate, report finds. Independent inquiry into child sexual abuse criticises ‘culture of disbelief’ at Leicestershire police in 2002 https://t.co/CnP5Tkai1a
- 'Tick box’ AML regime isn’t working, Society tells Treasury | Law Gazette https://t.co/aR6tQaDAYA
- Charge President Bolsonaro with murder over Covid toll, draft #Brazil senate report says https://t.co/EyjSDGv5q
- Arran Kaur, a Coventry University solicitor named Coventry & Warwickshire First’s Young Professional of the Year says she wants to continue to help inspire more young people to pursue a career in law https://t.co/CzXXK3xzo
- Why State and Local Law Enforcement Needs Legal Authority from Congress to Counteract Dangerous Drones #US https://t.co/cXs8iRw0fI
- Sheriff solemn cases at 102 per cent of pre-Covid average - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/YZAloIVwlh
- Drop Chinese investments, MPs and peers tell parliament’s pension fund - letter from 137 lawmakers urges fund to drop stakes in firms accused of human rights violations or linked to Chinese state https://t.co/xIUnAVwK9i
- England: Elderly man subjected to Kafkaesque trial in magistrates’ court - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1DbU5wHC7K
