Edition 3638: 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: Local elections are under way in the occupied West Bank with about 400,000 Palestinians eligible to vote. They are the first polls in two years. But Fatah and Hamas leaders remain at odds over when to hold the next general election. The last one was 15 years ago.
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Society pays tribute to Afghanistan rights defenders | Law Gazette https://t.co/PEWHqkFlkv
- SFO director’s position ‘untenable’ after damning ruling, lawyers say | Law Gazette https://t.co/1CWqMq6CPF
- Police step up search for missing hospital worker Petra Srncova: Harriet Harman launches appeal for information on 32-year-old Czech national who was last seen on 28 November https://t.co/PYu0kZWOKo
- Two subpostmasters prosecuted by DWP lose conviction appeals | Law Gazette https://t.co/wpX6UdDWCW
- Female #Australian sailor tells royal commission navy failed to protect her after alleged sexual assault by shipmate: Young woman says she was stalked, abused, punished and denied help by her chain of command until she became suicidal https://t.co/ylcBMGjlnu
- A ‘substantial increase’ in complaints about barristers were made to the Bar Standards Board (BSB) last year | NLJ https://t.co/2MEyMBLx1
- Lloyd Edwards, a Liberal Democrat member of Ceredigion council, said immigrants were putting "more and more pressure" on services in the county https://t.co/AsvnXQTw6B
- A man has died after an incident involving armed police in west London. Officers stopped a vehicle at the junction of Kensington Road and Palace Gate in Kensington around 15:20 GMT, before shots were fired, Met Police said https://t.co/ZxWd4UT4tu
- Takeaway forced to refund customer who complained their ice cream was cold in Just Eat 'scam' https://t.co/d2EMIfQy7t
- #Belgian court declares mandatory use of vaccination passport illegal, imposes fine of EUR 5,000 per day https://t.co/WyuZC2VeZK
- Former
Conservative councillor David Turtle has been convicted of killing his
wife Stephanie by deliberately running her over with his car outside
their #French home in 2017 https://t.co/5Ius5MiDYx
- Sheila Webster confirmed as Law Society of Scotland 2023/24 president elect - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ZGAVNymdVz
- Courts to ‘continue as they have during pandemic’ - LCJ | Law Gazette https://t.co/C5KPm6kPFP
- Irish companies to be allowed to hold online AGMs until May 2022 | Irish Legal News https://t.co/YFOieGE7BB
- Survivors and children are being ‘let down and retraumatised’ by their experiences in the family courts, the Domestic Abuse Commissioner, Nicole Jacobs has said | NLJ https://t.co/k1ACaejnAs
- 'End billable hours and measure output to achieve gender parity' – magic circle chief | Law Gazette https://t.co/6urZVUnHyR
- Britain can’t complain about global corruption – it’s helping to fund it https://t.co/cJpUalxGHO
- New
Covid restrictions could be introduced in Scotland next week, the
deputy first minister has warned. John Swinney says the Scottish
government is "wrestling with the challenge" of the surge of the Omicron
variant https://t.co/5wKkkNAcg8
- Care home residents in England will be allowed only three visitors and an essential care giver under new guidance to slow the spread of Omicron https://t.co/QWtfHTdaxC
- Oxbridge 'doesn't explain' judicial appointment struggle | Law Gazette https://t.co/my8c04kc1C
- #US Capitol attack panel obtains PowerPoint that set out plan for Trump to stage coup - Presentation turned over by Mark Meadows made several recommendations for Trump to pursue to retain presidency https://t.co/ILQG3AD2Z
- Police homophobia: the issue Stephen Port jurors couldn’t consider: Friends and family of victims say police fell for Port’s narrative they were ‘gay druggies’ whose deaths were by misadventure https://t.co/PddgOekWl9
- Prosecutors in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking trial have rested their case following two weeks of testimony. Annie Farmer, the last of four alleged victims to testify, recounted on Friday the "dark memory" of abuse by Ms Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein https://t.co/Px9d7BiN3s
- #Brazil
court has sentenced four people to lengthy prison terms over the deaths
of 242 club-goers in a fire during a party in 2013. A band performing
at the Kiss nightclub, in the southern city of Santa Maria, lit flares
which set light to the ceiling https://t.co/tIgiPTOHQo
- MacRoberts announces double appointment to construction and commercial teams - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/a2v4bfcCdG
- Former
Yorkshire and England cricket captain Ray Illingworth has spoken of his
support for assisted dying after watching his wife die from breast
cancer https://t.co/hjsBrGuUq7
- Law firms should not shy away from talking about fertility | Law Gazette https://t.co/8p5JegXX4j
- Sheriff
refuses to order extradition of Polish man living in Lanarkshire to
serve six-month prison sentence - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/A452tLHOEs
- Upbeat DWF reports £11m pre-tax profit in half-year turnaround | Law Gazette https://t.co/TbFOm52iii
- Oireachtas backs new planning process for large-scale residential developments | Irish Legal News https://t.co/IsZAtTxpkt
- The Sun says it didn’t hack phones – so why does its publisher keep paying out? https://t.co/wqFM8j5aaj
- Nearly a quarter of solicitors now work in-house | Law Gazette https://t.co/HwInwOod3U
- McCann FitzGerald promotes Deirdre Barnicle to consultant | Irish Legal News https://t.co/HP67Rm2sw9
- Attorney general begins review of SFO after judges overturn bribery conviction: Anti-corruption agency severely criticised by judges over failings that led to a businessman being unfairly jailed https://t.co/3vP36KmFei
- Sienna Miller says ‘legal recourse not available’ after settlement | Law Gazette https://t.co/lORIoGCatY
- Jury clears Extinction Rebellion activists who targeted commuters: Group of six argued obstruction in London’s financial district was lawful protest against government inaction https://t.co/ehpOyE6P8Z
