Edition 3592: 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: Four years after Beijing's crackdown on the mainly-Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, the high-tech police state is being replace by a push or tourism - but AP journalist Dake Kang, who recently visited the region says the sense of normality is far from the truth.
Focus of the Day Story: A fresh attempt to assess the advocacy standards of solicitors is one of the stand-out features of the business plan for the coming year published by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The regulator said that standards of representation within the criminal and civil justice system continue to be a key issue, brought into sharper focus following the pandemic. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Investigators exploring fatal New Mexico film set say there was "some complacency" around safety. Presenting their initial findings on Thursday's shooting, officials said they believe actor Alec Baldwin was handed a gun loaded with a live round #US https://t.co/aaGY2ChdAy
- Trump’s judges will call the shots for years to come. The judicial system is broken #US https://t.co/f7EUhR93RG
- Fieldfisher names Robert Shooter as next managing partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/kQkNOVIZ2w
- Book: Funding Personal Injury Litigation in Scotland - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/EGRiRRFM7y
- An Italian man has pleaded guilty to all charges relating to a £26m series of burglaries that targeted the luxury homes of celebrities in west London. Jugoslav Jovanovic previously admitted to conspiring to burgle the homes of the wealthy https://t.co/kSHO8DHrXV
- Homicides in Scotland fall by 12 per cent - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/wHAS9bT6lp
- Scottish corporate insolvencies rose 29 per cent between July and September - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/cpZ5pvUntm
- ECtHR: Spanish law giving father’s name precedence over mother’s ruled discriminatory - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/q934uDL9d7
- Glasgow City Council ordered to pay over £1.3 million to man abused in foster care - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Pej7Lma8P0
- Government approves Labour Court recommendations for construction pay rise | Irish Legal News https://t.co/cyA6Osrw5u
- A man has been arrested after deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner received threatening and abusive phone calls. The 52-year-old was held by Greater Manchester Police on suspicion of malicious communications at an address in Halifax on Wednesday morning https://t.co/kW9bhNuVVH
- UKSC: Employer’s circumvention of trade union in pay negotiations ruled unlawful - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/cAb7HtXnNM
- Louisa Knox appointed to Scottish Financial Enterprise board - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/H13H2zbZO9
- #Poland told to pay €1m a day in legal row with EU https://t.co/fTskzRGFeU
- Call for addiction services in new family court system | Irish Legal News https://t.co/oi63l7gfJ0
- A serving Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with rape. PC Adam Zaman, 28, is alleged to have carried out the attack in the City of London on Sunday evening when he was off duty https://t.co/x2IIVqwYsp
- Funding ‘emergency’ advice makes fiscal sense | Law Gazette https://t.co/1uth7rMzGf
- Law firm first to sell advice using cryptocurrency tokens - Legal Futures https://t.co/L7NOZeBRld
- The master of a Cambridge University college has described the return of a looted bronze cockerel to representatives of Nigeria as a "momentous occasion" https://t.co/39HD6OZJRy
- Cleaver Fulton Rankin awarded business continuity management certification | Irish Legal News https://t.co/H844WsbZRa
- SRA business plan targets solicitor-advocates and technology - Legal Futures https://t.co/tb41hOMmbw
- Former police office Wayne Couzens, Sarah Everard murderer, applies to appeal against whole-life sentence https://t.co/1mw30og7sD
- Siblings appeal strike-off over property scheme advice | Law Gazette https://t.co/StgSLz1lds
- Listed law firm to buy its own corporate adviser for £10m - Legal Futures https://t.co/ZYA0nAGRqn
- Opinion: The ‘special practice’ at the International Court of Justice which has to cease | Irish Legal News https://t.co/YsoWm4X0SP
- Major private equity house buys top-100 law firm - Legal Futures https://t.co/V1GM5fV0SR
- Northern Ireland Office may directly instruct trusts to offer abortion services: Brandon Lewis warns he will soon have ‘no alternative but to take further steps’ to ensure services are provided https://t.co/2Wp2Y8aFWS
- Almost
1m Tripadvisor reviews in 2020 found to be fraudulent: In total
Tripadvisor penalised 34,605 properties for fraudulent activity and
banned 20,299 members https://t.co/jsTrbSYgdl
- Activists from the environmental group Insulate Britain obstructed the A40, which connects with the M40 and M25, in west London during rush hour on Wednesday https://t.co/N9foaqJGnx
- Pro bono week turns 20 | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZiWr7161yi
- Julian Assange: what to expect from the extradition appeal https://t.co/O9458JGBNi
- The Irish Prison Service (IPS) has withdrawn its appeal of a significant High Court judgment which found that the service must provide reasonable accommodation to disabled prison officers | Irish Legal News https://t.co/tQieaqM12i
- A
19-year-old man has been charged with murder after the death of two
teenage boys. They were found fatally injured in Regency Court,
Brentwood, Essex, at about 01:30 BST on Sunday https://t.co/B7PDP6tVW9
- Online testing for future judges piloted in Northern Ireland | Irish Legal News https://t.co/8gYT1R1ppN
- Prince Andrew’s lawyer asks to keep 2009 legal agreement sealed: Attorney says the deal can protect the prince against a lawsuit that claims that he assaulted Virginia Giuffre when she was 17 https://t.co/cKR8bYSgFS
- JR bill back in Commons as Davis threatens to rebel | Law Gazette https://t.co/siAz8NS0Mt
- Bobbie Goulding in group of ex-rugby league internationals to sue over brain damage https://t.co/phpMf2tKKO
- A
former close aide to Hillary Clinton has reportedly written in a new
memoir how she was sexually assaulted by a US senator. Huma Abedin said
the unnamed politician pounced on her on a couch in the mid-2000s #US https://t.co/wu8xaQ5fEI
- Council worker sacked for comments about Zionism wins back job - Stan Keable awarded £70,000 after tribunal judge in London rules he was unfairly dismissed from role https://t.co/rJCUS9YfCE
- Barrister disbarred after sexual assault conviction | Law Gazette https://t.co/4MGObiDKSj
- An English & Scottish conflict: the impact of untraced insurers on the exercise of discretion in respect of limitation - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4J4TJ5APP8
- Solicitor struck off for dishonest evidence opens appeal | Law Gazette https://t.co/lIf3NUlLj4
- David Davis to rebel against ‘profoundly unconservative’ judicial review bill - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/fvFJn9hhkM
- Pregnant women are being turned away from Covid vaccine clinics, experts warn: Members of JCVI say focus on those who have not had any jabs must take precedence over efforts to increase booster uptake https://t.co/EmFNosPPbU
- SRA to look again at advocacy standards | Law Gazette https://t.co/WtKZj8Rgmo
- Edinburgh sheriff rules writing on back of envelope did not alter terms of Irish citizen’s will - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/A5T73wYaK4
- Tesco shopper thrown out for using £100 cash to pay £60 bill wins £5,000 compensation - The man was interrogated by police over his rare choice of payment method https://t.co/YHhXx24Fy2
- Bar's aptitude test must be scrapped | Law Gazette https://t.co/wYqdObvyXY
- Face coverings have been made mandatory for everyone working in the House of Commons except MPs https://t.co/TE1cIXCeSp
