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29th October - Law News

Edition 3593: 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:  Up to 10 people, including children, are reported to have been killed in an Ethiopian airstrike on the northern Tigray region, as Prime Minister Abiy's forces claim they had targeted military equipment. Thousands of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands have been displaced in almost 12 months of fighting. The Amhara region has become the frontline, and civilians are joining the militias to fight the Tigray rebel forces alongside the government. 


Focus of the Day Story: Lawyers fear voicing mental health concerns as workplace stress erodes wellbeing, global study finds. IBA says report is 'call to action' as high-performing lawyers battle to reconcile sense of purpose with permanent pressure and fear of failure. Full story - The Global Legal Post
 
Saturday Conversations on Law
  • US private equity moves in to snap up biggest PI firm | Law Gazette https://t.co/NRInm3huPn 
  • Budget 21: MoJ set for windfall with 4.1% real terms increase by 2025 | Law Gazette https://t.co/oAzcSnn0t1
  • ‘Reasonable questions’ surround Trump’s purchase of Scottish properties - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/86Boq58Nlo
  • UK ‘washing hands’ of Britons in Syria - former DPP | Law Gazette https://t.co/FmFIIHvVsq
  • Helen’s law: killer refused parole for failing to disclose where body hidden: Glyn Razzel, who murdered his wife in 2002, first person affected by new law, named after woman who vanished in 1988 https://t.co/FmrxXXhsJr
  • The remaining seven countries on England's Covid travel red list will be removed from next Monday. Fully-vaccinated arrivals from Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Peru, Panama, Haiti and Venezuela will no longer have to quarantine in a hotel https://t.co/th31oXcGYl 
  • There have been protests and complaints of restricted freedom, but much of Europe is now using Covid passports to enter bars, restaurants, cinemas and museums https://t.co/yv7izfnB5h
  • Ince makes bid for listed corporate adviser | Law Gazette https://t.co/q0MK8YTKAn
  • Philip Alston: The ‘special practice’ at the International Court of Justice which has to cease - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/7dRMWd03NA 
  • Benjamin Iliffe, 36 sent deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner a threatening email telling her to "watch your back and your kids", and has been now been sentenced https://t.co/wMd0UIT2TR 
  • Workers win Supreme Court ruling on union rights | Law Gazette https://t.co/sF3pM81BPe 
  • Allow us the option of a humane, painless death https://t.co/KiZAUy9DDM
  • North-west PI firm goes under with all staff made redundant | Law Gazette https://t.co/4Bcy64vMKC 
  • City firm reports itself to SRA over unauthorised court recordings - Legal Futures https://t.co/UEImmEDjnT
  • Private security guards to receive human trafficking training | Irish Legal News https://t.co/FahO1o3LwA
  • Service with a smile? Why customer service should be a top priority for law firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/6SVkWYTNcb
  • JR bill cruises through Commons vote as rebellion fails to materialise | Law Gazette https://t.co/JHEaRElASG 
  • Pandemic “boosted profits of motor insurers by £3.3bn” - Legal Futures https://t.co/uj67PtAThm 
  • The organiser of the flight in which footballer Emiliano Sala died has been found guilty by majority verdict of endangering the safety of an aircraft. David Henderson was found guilty after a trial at Cardiff Crown Court https://t.co/x5BuSwkJO1 
  • Another man overturns convictions for assisting Gerry Adams’ prison escape bid | Irish Legal News https://t.co/xdu0xmfExe
  • "A step in the right direction" - legal leaders seek positives from Budget - Legal Futures https://t.co/3dOEBmpNTx
  • Killer of retired CPS lawyer gets 33-year term | Law Gazette https://t.co/uW3dq9XW3I 
  • Fiscal watchdog says Brexit would cut GDP by around 4% long term, while Covid impacts would hit output by a further 2% https://t.co/rgvw50kweb
  • Newly qualified left in charge of firm rebuked over client account failures - Legal Futures https://t.co/aS76PXyJLG
  • Harper Macleod appointed to advise pioneering marine energy centre EMEC - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/inojvKhEJE 
  • The head of the British Army General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith says he is appalled by allegations that British soldiers may have been involved in the murder of a Kenyan woman Agnes Wanjiru. He is determined to support the authorities to establish the facts https://t.co/3hY561UUC7
  • A woman who was sexually abused in a children's home in the 1950s has called for an inquiry and an apology. Mo Simmons, 80, and her two brothers were taken to Hollybrook Children's Home in Southampton when she was 10 years old https://t.co/AiuVRLKlFA
  • Budget 21: Backlog funding ‘window dressing’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/tKDL1fLDrT 
  • The BBC has profiled lawyer Manjula Pradeep who was born in Western India to a Dalit family, a community on the lowest rung of the caste ladder - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/QBbDRkz7Bl 
  • Budget 21: Tax advisers in line for new sanctions | Law Gazette https://t.co/I8k8VqnoT9 
  • Irish lawyers nominated at Inspirational Women in Law Awards | Irish Legal News https://t.co/5FMXCy2gVt 
  • Budget 21: MoJ set for windfall with 4.1% real terms increase by 2025 | Law Gazette https://t.co/oAzcSn5pBt 
  • ECtHR: Disabled voters can be required to use back entrance at polling places - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/lRInrSYnWa
  • 'The government has listened' - Chancery Lane welcomes budget boost | Law Gazette https://t.co/UjgSuDfS1d
  • John Lewis pulls controversial advert for being ‘potentially misleading’: Home insurance ad featuring a boy in a dress taken off air after financial regulator warning https://t.co/6wVQUgqUyB