Edition 3623: 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: Cases of online child sexual abuse spiked globally during the Covid-19 pandemic. In India, the National Crime Record Bureau data shows a 624% rise in cases between 2019 and 2020. Experts say this is just the tip of the iceberg. Is India lagging in tackling online child sex abuse?
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Solicitor grossly inflated his hours to ‘avoid adverse scrutiny’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/pjS9KswZRO
- UK data watchdog calls on Google to eliminate existing privacy risks posed by adtech industry | Irish Legal News https://t.co/dNGu4Z9UjL
- A
cinema has been ordered to close by the Welsh government after its
owner, Anna Redfern, failed to show up for her court case at Swansea
Magistrates' Court after the city council told her to close Cinema &
Co for refusing to ask for Covid passes https://t.co/ywvRUaS827
- Online SQE trainer signs up leading Midlands firm | Law Gazette https://t.co/IG40ojByrq
- Oxford
barrister Anisah Ahmed who cried rape in a plot to frame her lover
after she discovered he was married, has been given a life sentence https://t.co/ocujL7PYdh
- Careless driving offences to be handled outside of court under NI plans | Irish Legal News https://t.co/aaUQ7XS5F8
- Plans to ensure people with Down's syndrome get lifelong care have passed the first hurdle on the way to being law in England https://t.co/LW5nqga17O
- Thirteen people have been arrested after climate change activists blocked UK Amazon warehouses on Black Friday, the retailer's busiest day of the year https://t.co/14RMcEoKrc
- Law Society calls SCJC’s virtual court proposals premature - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Kt4x7DyqyA
- Trains to Scotland have been cancelled by operator LNER, which said there would be no services north of Newcastle as Storm Arwen hits the UK https://t.co/2R69Rr0tII
- Smart contracts are legally sound, Law Commission confirms | Law Gazette https://t.co/8ymjDiDmeO
- Cleaver Fulton Rankin hires Suzanne Keenan as employment director | Irish Legal News https://t.co/v4OTW4jg8l
- Justice minister hails legal innovation on Middle East mission | Law Gazette https://t.co/XiXOjXxgXp
- Flexible working overtakes pay as top priority for job-seeking lawyers - Legal Futures https://t.co/2dhO2wmARm
- Sole practitioners merge to form Daly Khurshid Solicitors | Irish Legal News https://t.co/HjDDxXF8mu
- NSW laws criminalising secret recordings of animal cruelty ‘too great a burden on speech’, high court hears #Australia https://t.co/RDI5HEvY2R
- Lord Advocate’s admission of malicious prosecution came too late - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/HPbONmBzD6
- Solicitors "need to understand" the difference between SRA and Law Society - Legal Futures https://t.co/t8rs6pW9rj
- UK ministers urged to ‘stop playing politics’ over Channel crossings https://t.co/slkLbt2CmU
- Master of the Rolls fires starting gun on civil costs revolution - Legal Futures https://t.co/1BUXruGkoG
- Proposed football regulator ‘will need lawyers’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/OkrK2kfX5v
- A
12-year-old girl has died after suffering "catastrophic injuries"
during an argument in a city centre. Ava White was with friends in
Liverpool when she was assaulted at 20:40 GMT on Thursday https://t.co/Axn92bR8Ch
- Bobbi-Anne McLeod had no known link to murder suspect, police say https://t.co/QOvzOqzeiw
- Commercial judge refuses to sift action for outstanding pension contributions raised by fund trustees - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SESVvtxtg9
- Eyebrows raised at home secretary Priti Patel’s effort to show sympathy for Channel deaths https://t.co/Tm48mLSsVs
- SRA chief tells firms to ‘take the rough with the smooth’ over PII hikes | Law Gazette https://t.co/QiyeFXSKzU
- #SouthAfrica to be put on England’s travel red list over new Covid variant https://t.co/om8svQUSc8
- ‘Pressing need’ for guidance on judicial visits in CoP - McFarlane | Law Gazette https://t.co/3lOokZ6aP7
- Raab should focus on chronic underfunding if he wants swifter justice | Law Gazette https://t.co/5AvJFH0zld
- Activists take court action against Boris Johnson over climate crisis: Three people claim government is breaching right to life and family life by not doing what is needed to prevent disaster https://t.co/cUvQTJdnZq
- #French fishers to block Channel tunnel in Brexit licences row https://t.co/Fb7DpMWxxA
