Edition 3652: 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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Season's Greetings to all our readers!
Today's Highlighted Video Story: Christian Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip say their hopes of a Christmas reunion with family members who are overseas have been dashed due to restrictions placed by the Israeli government, ostensibly for security reasons. Those in the Gaza Strip have abandoned hope of celebrating Christmas in the holy cities of Bethlehem and Jerusalem, also because of the restrictions. This year Israel said 500 of the 1000 Christians in Gaza would be allowed to go, but people here say Israel only grants the permits to one or two members of the same family, which would mean entire families being split up at Christmas if they travelled
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- The number of solicitors working in-house has risen ‘significantly’ in the past decade, amid a UK-wide boost in legal services output | NLJ https://t.co/5V84TtfiH4
- Fear of catching coronavirus not protected belief, tribunal rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/BEeqzAntAn
- Border Force picks up 67 people after Christmas Day attempt to cross Channel: Agents step in after incident involving two small boats in early hours of morning https://t.co/wnsSLCp1kC
- A man armed with an "offensive weapon" has been arrested in the grounds of Windsor Castle on Christmas Day. Thames Valley Police said the man, aged 19 and from Southampton, was found within "moments" of entering the grounds at 08:30 GMT https://t.co/kLdYP85L0E
- Bar Standards Board lacks “capability, capacity and resources” - Legal Futures https://t.co/QJwC5Tn0GG
- More than two thirds of senior commercial property law professionals think it very likely that administrative tasks for commercial real estate transactions will be fully automated within the next three years | NLJ https://t.co/mgPjNrKTaJ
- Lord Advocate announces sexual crime prosecution review - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/Y6UQCli3cA
- CoA denies flight compensation for delayed London connection | Law Gazette https://t.co/3zoUoV7okP
- The odds are stacked against judicial applicants from under-represented backgrounds despite efforts to improve diversity, a ‘deep dive’ analysis appears to show | NLJ https://t.co/YRpBAvIuCl
- Opinion: Douglas Mill – quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/AidX8FmU2N
- Bar Council Chair Derek Sweeting QC has been approved for appointment as a High Court judge | NLJ https://t.co/ptg9NM6DcN
- Covid boosted conveyancing fees and role of 'dabblers' - Legal Futures https://t.co/9d14IDPmsP
- Lawyers
have called for ‘urgent’ funding for the criminal justice system, in
the wake of the publication of the Independent Review of Criminal Legal
Aid | NLJ https://t.co/jmIbiGUj4K
- Christmas appeal tops off year of fundraising for Burness Paull Foundation - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/kG43PmidX6
- Tagging
UK asylum seekers: another Patel idea destined to fail? Despite a
string of measures intended to cut numbers, more than 27,000 crossed the
Channel in small boats this year https://t.co/IRwBu2WDUm
- #Israeli settler ramming attack kills 60-year-old Palestinian woman Ghadeer Fuqaha in occupied West Bank https://t.co/l3QUsL0olh
- In a diverse Commons, why are the hands on our levers of power ‘hideously white’? https://t.co/q3kw6xZs7J
- #Russia slaps Google, Meta with record $125M fine for content violations https://t.co/XeS9J2rAAR
- #India Police file case after videos go viral on social media of a meeting in which hardline Hindu religious leaders called for mass killings and use of weapons against Muslims https://t.co/qm707JIUtB
- A #Russian court has jailed for 21 years a former Orthodox priest, said to have adopted 70 children, for a string of child abuse offences https://t.co/qRY9UDMYfQ
- Former Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge has been ordered to pay $30,000 (£22,400) to a man who says he found his lost dog. His Pomeranian named Lucci was stolen from a house in Los Angeles in 2019 and offered a reward https://t.co/YgHeIiwWTH
- UK to ease immigration rules for care workers as shortage worsens: Loss of more than 40,000 staff over past six months prompts move to recruit overseas https://t.co/m1QtcIVR8d
- Former Rangers owner Craig Whyte in court for failing to provide passwords for seized devices - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/81hWtB5q0W
- The right to protest is a democratic right, that right is threatened under Tory legislation: https://t.co/gG8bRJdXts
