Edition 3648: 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: Japan has executed three prisoners on death row for the first time in two years. The government said it was necessary to maintain capital punishment in the face of continued "atrocious crimes" - the inmates are usually hanged long after sentencing. More than 100 people are currently on death row in the country, most of them being cases of mass murder.
Focus of the Day Story: Plans to deliver a new deal for tenants, with stronger rights, greater protections against eviction and access to more affordable housing have been launched. | Scottish Legal News
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Law Society of Northern Ireland optimistic ahead of 2022 centenary celebrations | Irish Legal News https://t.co/dwMvZVhz3a
- Supreme Court has jurisdiction to hear SC appeals, SC rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/jBBBo6sZFo
- Mills Selig promotes Darren Marley to partner | Irish Legal News https://t.co/USiPIQIqGy
- LiP’s recusal application against former solicitor dismissed | Law Gazette https://t.co/hmA0aZWrHV
- Police Federation chair John Apter suspended over inappropriate touching claims https://t.co/Xwf4fsdmge
- JMK Solicitors helps to raise over £55,000 for Cancer Fund for Children | Irish Legal News https://t.co/6gXBD5QK44
- Police searching for a student have released CCTV images taken on the night he went missing as they renew their appeal for information. Harvey Parker, 20, from Lambeth, south London, was last seen leaving Heaven nightclub, close to Charing Cross station https://t.co/IGYrOIMbgw
- Microsoft offers 3% bonus to panel firms hitting diversity targets | Law Gazette https://t.co/XhSkQ9I6G9
- Information Commissioner's Office challenged over Whitehall JR submissions | Law Gazette https://t.co/MhCvS3zaM9
- Court stops Irwin Mitchell claiming £95k costs ‘shortfall’ from client | Law Gazette https://t.co/TCjcPGIdOU
- The rule of law, ABSs and the consultation on regulation of the legal profession - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4vC6Ij2Kkp
- Transgenders should no longer have to live in their chosen gender for two years before getting legal recognition, MPs have said. The Women and Equalities Committee said the requirement risked "entrenching outdated and unacceptable gender stereotypes" https://t.co/7S1Rx2NbBG
- A former police officer who spent 17 years in prison for the 2003 killing of his pregnant partner has had his case thrown out during a retrial - Gary Walker, now 57, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2004 https://t.co/pPE3wlU9lk
- Edinburgh's Hogmanay street party has been cancelled and football matches will be effectively spectator-free as part of tough new Covid rules in Scotland https://t.co/nWXOCvNyl4
- Creditors out of pocket after firm owing £1.3m sold in pre-pack deal | Law Gazette https://t.co/fJ5hCIyzTM
- Guaidó closer to £1.3bn in #Venezuelan gold after UK court ruling - Lawyers for disputed president, Nicolás Maduro, criticise overturning of appeal court decision https://t.co/o8cK6CAMBh
- Doctors up in arms over 'pre-conception negligence' ruling - Legal Futures https://t.co/yhAPmBvXKZ
- The UK's High Court on Tuesday awarded a lump sum settlement of £251.5m to Princess Haya Bint Al-Hussain - the sixth wife of the ruler of Dubai https://t.co/kuo2B294VS
- Malicious prosecution scandal: Cost to public purse reaches almost £40m - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/aE0SWB2zCE
- Ex-Dechert partner used ‘self-destructing messaging’, court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/oS56ETL1GY
- Former shareholders in Perth car dealership lose appeal against enforceability of expert determination in share price dispute - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ZETBGwuai9
- Microsoft offers financial bonus to firms that meet its diversity targets - Legal Futures https://t.co/Hk3VjVh2YU
- Court of Appeal rules police ‘hate incidents’ guidance unlawful | Law Gazette https://t.co/8qTIqLPara
- County lines: How the state is failing our young | Law Gazette https://t.co/sZlD8AaWvJ
- "Eminently reckless" solicitor had misplaced belief in lawyer fraudster - Legal Futures https://t.co/SSrnN0Du4J
- Omicron: Would tougher measures really be worth it?
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- Ghislaine Maxwell trial jurors begin deliberations #US https://t.co/WrIKFNFhnv
- London's New Year's Eve celebration event in Trafalgar Square will not go ahead because of the surge in Omicron Covid variant cases in the capital https://t.co/tBmywSVz4H
- Scottish Power debt enforcers have been caught on camera illegally breaking into a woman's flat seeking payment for debts she did not owe https://t.co/UCrgB6M5tf
- ‘Safety should be the priority’ - Society warns on Covid case rise | Law Gazette https://t.co/Hvh0WwiAEG
- Asking the right questions of ATE insurance providers - Legal Futures https://t.co/v4OFA2pnOj
- Trans-institutionalisation in Ireland: New and Emerging Congregated Settings for People with Disabilities | Health and Human Rights Journal https://t.co/GOM23w93rx
