Edition 3628: 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: Australia will be able to punish human rights abusers and corrupt officials who do not face justice in their home countries.
Focus of the Day Story: The 25-year-old Arbitration Act may need reform in the face of competition from overseas jurisdictions, the Law Commission said today, announcing a review of the principal legislation governing arbitrations in England and Wales and Northern Ireland. The review 'aims to ensure that the UK remains at the forefront' of the international dispute resolution market in the face of competition from centres such as Dubai and Singapore. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- McKees awarded bronze medal for business sustainability | Irish Legal News https://t.co/iFqf2WVbNe
- 'Experienced' LiP refused adjournment for pro bono counsel's unavailability | Law Gazette https://t.co/wypcfP2SGt
- Eugene F Collins appoints Lisa Griffin as senior associate | Irish Legal News https://t.co/SqWht4CPt9
- One third of big firms 'actively considering IPO' | Law Gazette https://t.co/YJf1yLxxw3
- Sir David Edward: Climate change – legal accountability is key - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/f0YCuyphXv
- Nationality and Borders Bill will punish the people it purports to protect | Law Gazette https://t.co/TZQVY4PWjx
- Stormont backs bill to provide ‘safe leave’ for victims and survivors of domestic abuse | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Bpo7nZ4qby
- Premier
League footballer Gabriel fought off a baseball bat-wielding man
attempting to steal his car. The Arsenal defender was followed into his
home in Barnet, north London, by three men on 20 August https://t.co/DoGQl1eQSO
- Travis Scott's offer to pay the funeral costs of Astroworld victims has been rejected by half of the bereaved families of concertgoers killed during a crush at the rapper's festival in Texas #US https://t.co/o5YxHx6EMW
- Landmark privacy case begins at Supreme Court | Law Gazette https://t.co/UhmWKYBIY4
- Barristers' conduct outside of work under increasing scrutiny - Legal Futures https://t.co/1x3QeVGs6C
- Deadline for registration of rights of way scrapped | Irish Legal News https://t.co/RNAzGKFIXD
- Raab eyes “drastic action” to keep family disputes out of court - Legal Futures https://t.co/365KDYMUjE
- Ireland’s courts service has missed its 2020 energy efficiency targets and will have to catch up to meet an even more ambitious 2030 target | Irish Legal News https://t.co/rLnqpySvSW
- MedCo goes it alone as it bids to reduce registration costs - Legal Futures https://t.co/nNVu3k9Qb5
- Costs bill not valid because solicitor’s signature was illegible | Law Gazette https://t.co/LiUrMeyeb1
- Jailed for 51 weeks for protesting? Britain is becoming a police state by stealth - The government’s back-door amendments to the policing bill are tyrannical. We should be on the streets in our millions https://t.co/h1tWE2wZaF
- EU must consider mandatory Covid jabs, says Von der Leyen - European Commission president says EU states need to discuss idea in response to spread of Omicron variant https://t.co/qGpKLq6ekq
- Why US abortion laws could be changed by Supreme Court ruling https://t.co/l95Dh6vEea
- MPs call for inquiry into conveyancers who "mis-sold" leasehold advice - Legal Futures https://t.co/GeZM3lhRRS
- Claims of historical abuse involving priests and religious figures are being re-investigated by police following new information from an abuse survivor. Kevin O'Connell claimed he was sexually abused by Father Thaddeus Kotik, a monk living on Caldey Island https://t.co/IePZGtzhtR
- Radical reform of response to prison deaths needed - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/qlQceEeBsR
- Another
energy supplier has collapsed amid an ongoing surge in gas prices, UK
regulator Ofgem has said. Zog Energy, which has about 11,700 domestic
energy customers, ceased trading on Wednesday https://t.co/YU0CYm2JtR
- Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg is being investigated over a possible breach of the rules on MPs declaring outside earnings - The Commissioner is not releasing details of the allegations https://t.co/pdMs1ck8k
- The European Commission retracts internal communication guidelines that had proposed substituting the “Christmas period” with “holiday period” after an outcry by conservatives and the #Vatican https://t.co/0eYsr2izFl
- Conveyancers 'failed' in their leasehold duty, MPs told | Law Gazette https://t.co/25hWPCCiNy
- Up to one in 11 staff in some jails investigated for misconduct https://t.co/W0pSYAm2xo
- Ghislaine Maxwell: Epstein pilot testifies he flew Prince Andrew - Larry Visoski, the first witness in Ms Maxwell's sex-trafficking trial, recalled flying Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Kevin Spacey #US https://t.co/QfnPFfPnia
- Sheriff Appeal Court grants order requiring schizophrenic man with kidney disease to allow dialysis - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4AeYTUET1M
- Working days “could be replaced by aggregated maximum time” - Legal Futures https://t.co/Dzdw8MZeAK
- Lockdowns created a cycling boom in England, with record numbers of people out on their bikes to get exercise and fresh air. However, official data from the Department of Transport also shows that many more cyclists died on rural roads in 2020 https://t.co/o12Nt2OJwY
- ‘How dictatorship works’: #Hungarian academic quits in censorship row https://t.co/Nl32L8ATA3
- American
author Alice Sebold has apologised for her part in the wrongful
conviction of a black man who was cleared last week of raping her in
1981 #US https://t.co/PYhExxUCln
- Eastern promise as growing firm swallows up local rival | Law Gazette https://t.co/zvRPpuTYdL
- Consultation opens on ‘Charlotte’s law’ to encourage murderers to help locate victims’ remains | Irish Legal News https://t.co/wIkcgchj5Q
- Government lawyers reject claim NI protocol has ‘shattered’ union - Legal challenge brought by unionist politicians contests that Brexit deal conflicts with 1800 Acts of Union https://t.co/qteJ1vKzaK
- Judges and lawyers call for curbs on misuse of SLAPPs - Legal Futures https://t.co/O0jhDY4R2r
- Contempt case against Russian oligarch revived by CoA | Law Gazette https://t.co/Pu0AcGT6L7
- Ex-IS member guilty of genocide for chaining up Yazidi girl to die in the sun https://t.co/VU2AMDXDqk
- Should the SRA introduce tougher sanctions for AML breaches? - Legal Futures https://t.co/GKR7hnsPii
- Arbitration Act comes under the Law Commission’s microscope | Law Gazette https://t.co/0S5sWF3qyi
- Solicitor used prisoner’s inheritance to pay off overdraft - Legal Futures https://t.co/HIP92J6a8L
