Edition 3643: 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: A look at the new text messages from former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows that show some Fox News hosts asking former President Donald Trump to take action to stop the January 6 insurrection.
Focus of the Day Story: Three years after the government announced plans to embark on a wider
review of criminal legal aid payments, the findings of the judge-led
investigation are expected to be published today. However, practitioners
will reportedly have to wait until the new year to see how the
government responds. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Legislative change to pave way for more tree-planting | Irish Legal News https://t.co/oQgst7HefR
- Road Traffic Accident Law (Scotland) LLP announces appointments - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/fMSDjVQECZ
- Nightclubs will close in Wales after Boxing Day in response to the Omicron variant of coronavirus. The Welsh government said it will also impose restrictions on businesses, including social distancing in offices, from 27 December https://t.co/SNTU35qj6x
- Lady Poole appointed chair of Covid inquiry - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/PHYuifhStL
- European justice ministers adopt ‘Venice Declaration’ on restorative justice | Irish Legal News https://t.co/c916JhK89l
- Start-up enables general counsel to compare law firms on ESG - Legal Futures https://t.co/wgkovTyhwz
- Scottish human rights groups reject plans to replace HRA - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/zatRzho073
- Solicitor who backdated tribunal application "to avoid criticism" struck off - Legal Futures https://t.co/hoI5FIxDD7
- A tale of two Londons | Law Gazette https://t.co/GNpuTAIVvy
- Review calls for £135m cash injection to save criminal defence sector - Legal Futures https://t.co/Rmc8kbuogZ
- Like Shamima Begum, I could soon be stripped of British citizenship without notice | Naga Kandiah https://t.co/gCNw1MgirY
- Personal injury sheriff orders Lanarkshire man to pay over £50,000 to driver of car hit by trailer on bend - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JGUoC7LZIP
- Surge in number of freelancers as solicitors reach for the STaRs - Legal Futures https://t.co/6pTX5y1W1U
- Rape survivors arriving in UK on small boats neglected by authorities – report https://t.co/f5F6HfdgJH
- Is wife living in husband's house entitled to maintenance? Delhi High Court issues notice in plea | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/sggMpqkZyQ
- Solicitor ‘cynically misled’ clients over missing £180,000 | Law Gazette https://t.co/KJWcxylNX7
- PDR to cut red tape and help rural communities - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/bDAvInie6K
- Koci Selamaj has accepted responsibility for the killing of primary school teacher Sabina Nessa, but pleaded not guilty to her murder. Ms Nessa, 28, was found dead in Cator Park, Kidbrooke in south-east London on 18 September https://t.co/XJtOERDUpb
- #US releases 1,500 documents about JFK assassination inquiry https://t.co/gXN3wrWJRv
- Arson attack and cannabis farm discovery in empty court | Law Gazette https://t.co/fBm5UryeOl
- Children of inter-faith couple are entitled to be maintained by their father: Kerala High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/WicEK4cSwV
- Pharmacies
in Wales will become the "first port of call" for many patients to ease
strain on GPs under new plans. From April 2022, services such as
advice, flu jabs and emergency contraception will be available https://t.co/tCQlJMsln5
- Lawyers for the “Hooded Men” say they have been vindicated by a UK Supreme Court ruling that the PSNI’s decision not to investigate their allegations of torture by the British Army in 1971 was unlawful | Irish Legal News https://t.co/QWIsIcnWf3
- People worst affected by the post-Grenfell fire safety crisis may be able to sell their flats to the Welsh government. Housing Minister Julie James has announced a "buy-out" scheme, which will be launched next year https://t.co/ARjnYUZ7H
- People with nowhere to sleep, poor medical care, and a lack of rape support are all failings at Kent's migrant facilities, say two reports. A 16-year-old girl was left with potentially permanent scars after burns went untreated for two days https://t.co/NwkGE0Bub
- Why are vaccine passports so controversial in the UK? https://t.co/ln0JbKdeBI
- Groundbreaking Black feminist writer bell hooks dies at 69 https://t.co/fY5fXCFnKD
- Human rights should not be diminished under proposals for reform - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/GWBrSVegyZ
- #France to tighten Covid restrictions on travel from Omicron-hit UK - Government spokesperson says tourism trips will be limited and quarantine enforced for returnees https://t.co/dYzZ5eY9FY
- Beijing criticises UK for creating ‘second-class citizens’ with Hong Kong visa scheme https://t.co/GfiORuqLAw
- #US judge Michelle Odinet is to take leave of absence after video recorded at her home captured a racial slur directed at a burglar, local media report https://t.co/npZ2e8OTIO
- A right-wing #Dutch MP has been ordered to delete social media posts comparing Covid restrictions to the Holocaust. Thierry Baudet, leader of the Forum for Democracy party, had said on Twitter that unvaccinated people were "the new Jews" https://t.co/oei28ohwOt
- The
prime minister and England's chief medical officer have urged the
public to be cautious if they socialise before Christmas, amid record UK
Covid cases https://t.co/u42GeZ9gYv
- Post Office victims say settlement agreement 'obtained under duress' | Law Gazette https://t.co/aRlphs4vfF
- PSNI decision to end ‘hooded men’ inquiry was unlawful, says court - Supreme court ruling on police inquiry into men interrogated by British army during Troubles described as ‘landmark victory’ https://t.co/ovG9ABADon
- On the very day that the European Commission Stakeholder meeting on the Recognition of Parenthood took place, the CJEU determined the ‘baby Sarah’, Stolichna obshtina, rayon ‘Pancharevo’ case - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/HGHClgRvT
- Skye farmer who destroyed ancient cairn for topsoil fined £18,000 - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/VxoAgKqCPT
- Practitioners await criminal legal aid review findings | Law Gazette https://t.co/RMQOhUp9ZF
- Arthur Cox names six new partners | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Ub09vGrnnl
- Four-fifths of firms enjoyed a Covid uplift | Law Gazette https://t.co/QFpSYJHleX
- Body protecting EU citizens in UK takes Home Office to court - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/n81bmGD6n3
