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8th November - Law News

Edition 3604: 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: Dozens join a climate march in Quezon City, Philippines as millions mark the #GlobalDayOfAction for climate crisis around the world
 

Focus of the Day Story:  Nottingham Law School lecturers have called for more creativity in changing attitudes to misogyny and street harassment. Full story - New Law Journal 
 
Saturday Conversations on Law
  • Solicitor sanctioned for 'offensive' WhatsApp messages - Legal Cheek https://t.co/UKTyi0DF8V
  • Major report: Time for targets, not talk, to improve race equality at Bar - Legal Futures https://t.co/CSFBTh7iYG 
  • Ropes & Gray raises London NQ lawyer pay to £147k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/na8RCzfV5o
  • Millions of Americans owe court fees or other ‘carceral debt’. This must end https://t.co/jqubvnqYHs
  • Stephenson Harwood boosts NQ lawyer pay to £90k as it ups billable hour targets - Legal Cheek https://t.co/7S10SDZMA8
  • ‘The Great Resignation’ is looming for lawyers - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/pHoCq2wDEN
  • ‘Our notion of privacy will be useless’: what happens if technology learns to read our minds? https://t.co/4fyDtFYuRP
  • Meet the Leeds Uni law grad shining a light on neurodiversity - Legal Cheek https://t.co/4FdqUgYwZE 
  • #Australia government support during the pandemic has given businesses and their directors a “false sense of security”. Those days are now over, and action must be taken, said one partner - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/Iv2QpGGwKT
  • Telangana High Court confers senior designation on nine lawyers | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/AuhA437hTk
  • An #Italian court has sentenced 70 members of the powerful mafia group, the 'Ndrangheta, in the first stage of the biggest mafia trial in decades. Over the next two years, 355 alleged mobsters and corrupt officials will face court https://t.co/2Ex6ucBDUk
  • Simmons pledges £100k in free legal support to start-ups tackling climate change - Legal Cheek https://t.co/LZ1ALphgPq
  • The Court of Protection and Criminal Law - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/Yc5LIG6Eib 
  • Flexible training contract specialist signs SQE training deal with College of Legal Practice - Legal Cheek https://t.co/tSK99aKCs
  • The National Trust is calling on the government to ban peat being used in compost, as part of efforts to try and limit climate change. It is one of more than a dozen international organisations asking for a switch to sustainable alternatives https://t.co/Fp1W5We8Xb 
  • Regulating the Professionals: a Shakeup in Healthcare - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/kmTnApUW23
  • The chairman of Parliament's Standards Committee has called on Parliament to approve his committee's report on Owen Paterson's conduct - even though Mr Paterson has resigned as an MP https://t.co/9BsQphYCnt
  • Social Movements for Gender and Sexual Diversity: Case Studies from Jamaica, Nepal, and Japan | Diana J Fox https://t.co/SUMJeJWSlZ
  • Meet the infrastructure lawyers helping ‘Build back better’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/rGVcMyPvrX
  • High Court dismisses appeal in ‘largest women’s health class action in #Australia’s history’ - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/0w8Agi4rJa
  • Use of trademark as keyword: Delhi High Court directs Google to probe into web traffic diversion | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/R2VyEQ9htH 
  • Walsall retail park visitors threatened by children with fake gun https://t.co/Ue8XbDZDt
  • Ex-magic circle lawyer loses legal battle to force wealthy parents to pay him maintenance for life - Legal Cheek https://t.co/N91Zn9F0RG
  • Astroworld: Criminal investigation into Texas festival crowd surge #US https://t.co/mBZKdcZCEX
  • Jones Day London trainee pleads not guilty to rape and coercive/controlling behaviour - Legal Cheek https://t.co/FXbsxkVTLY
  • #US court blocks Biden's vaccine mandate for companies https://t.co/jtM1FizKcw
  • Cyber-insurance – Are you prepared? - Legal Futures https://t.co/2tdDue0Qk9 
  • South #Australian Attorney-General Vickie Chapman will face an inquiry over an alleged conflict of interest in a decision to allow a port to be built on Kangaroo Island for the timber industry - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/6dLuYFI47b