Edition 3629: 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: Former Democratic Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota speaks about John the death threat Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) received by voicemail and reacts to Rep. Nancy Mace's (R-SC) heated Twitter spat with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)
Focus of the Day Story: Whatever happened to those down under law firm recruitment roadshows? A generation of lawyers from Australia and New Zealand cut their teeth in London, now they are more likely to go to New York. Full story - The Global Legal Post
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Tory peer Michelle Mone accused of sending racist and abusive
message - Mone is alleged to have called man of Indian heritage ‘a waste
of a man’s white skin’ in WhatsApp exchange https://t.co/8aiM2KJ5hw
- Professor Derek Auchie joins Squaring Circles - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/28hTT9YOMK
- Caoimhe McConnell joins Richard Grogan & Associates | Irish Legal News https://t.co/WfqKTal1Ub
- Harassment arrest breached journalist's human rights, ECtHR rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/90UAj9RuLI
- “Diligent and caring solicitor” was not dishonest over medical reports - Legal Futures https://t.co/O6YniWFto
- Images have been released of three men police want to speak to about allegations of anti-Semitic abuse directed at Jewish passengers on a bus https://t.co/mDdcvj4Fyx
- #Germany's
national and regional leaders have agreed to bar unvaccinated people
from much of public life in a bid to fend off a fourth wave of Covid-19
https://t.co/boXVlTyPIz
- Solicitor struck off after almost £600k of client money vanished | Law Gazette https://t.co/stE4l9pq0X
- Remand inmates in England and Wales ‘facing second Christmas behind bars’ - Figures obtained by charity show rising number of people held longer than six months awaiting trial or sentence https://t.co/6B99emCJbu
- McEntee hosts virtual National Missing Persons Day event | Irish Legal News https://t.co/irAIfIl2fj
- Ministers should face misconduct charges over Covid crisis, say UK campaigners https://t.co/FE41AtkpEk
- Supreme Court allows DWP’s appeal over universal credit | Law Gazette https://t.co/lKaDs9kfi8
- Leading Conservative MP outlines worries about state of county court - Legal Futures https://t.co/V1LzcQcZb0
- Tribunal rejects solicitor judges' claims for backpay - Legal Futures https://t.co/wMbrY3JlrC
- Chef sentenced after one killed and 31 left ill by undercooked shepherd’s pie - John Croucher admits contravening food regulations after incident in which woman died in Northamptonshire https://t.co/nrODi1kEr9
- Bundesliga
matches can only have an attendance of up to 50% and a maximum of
15,000 after #Germany reintroduced Covid-19 restrictions on Thursday https://t.co/usNttHqs8f
- “Misconception” that review websites are bad for small firms - Legal Futures https://t.co/lckL6WCMne
- The family of M9 crash victim Lamara Bell is to receive more than £1m in compensation from Police Scotland. The force previously admitted failures in its call-handling system "materially contributed" to the death of Ms Bell following the crash in 2015 https://t.co/yELC2H5OBy
- Meghan has won the latest stage in her legal fight against the publisher of the Mail on Sunday over a letter she sent to her father: The Court of Appeal rejected Associated Newspapers' attempt to have a trial in the privacy and copyright case https://t.co/Tp44oTul1h
- Religious discrimination bill: moderate Liberals strike deal to protect gay students #Australia https://t.co/MxoW8CNvrQ
- Raab invites ‘drastic and bold’ ideas to keep family matters out of court | Law Gazette https://t.co/cLvWvAkbd6
- Ireland's Justice Minister Helen McEntee has secured Government approval to recommend to President Higgins that he exercise his right to pardon John Twiss, who was convicted of the murder of John Donovan and executed in January 1895 | Irish Legal News https://t.co/02zrKRfV29
- What are the Coalition’s proposed anti-troll social media laws and who do they benefit? https://t.co/bOCfkoXZmx
- IT crash firm says only a 'small proportion' of clients have moved | Law Gazette https://t.co/eudc9GjRIo
- Controversial mitochondrial donation legislation passed after conscience vote - Maeve’s law will legalise partial DNA donations, allowing women to give birth without passing on a genetic disease https://t.co/tZejjdisfV
- Scottish government welcomes prison proposals: A new process to investigate prison deaths has been welcomed “in principle” by Justice Secretary Keith Brown - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/9d69WDO3lp
- Essex mega-prisons pose threat to rare wildlife, warn environmentalists - Government accused of reneging on environmental pledges with plan to build on old airfield near Braintree https://t.co/UNxgNcWRXm
- Landmark privacy ruling not ‘novel, radical or surprising’, Supreme Court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/2YZnv4Lx2s
- How an innocent Black man served time for the rape of author Alice Sebold - Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in jail as victim of miscarriage of justice but has accepted author’s apology https://t.co/H6culyqOJW
- Complaints about barristers’ conduct soar | Law Gazette https://t.co/kbdB4bbIV7
- High Court refuses application to introduce evidence of subsequent child contact litigation by man accused of rape - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/BaWYeZAog7
- High Court to hear Khan case seven days after arrest warrant issued | Law Gazette https://t.co/lsHVC7dAzG
- Landmark privacy ruling not ‘novel, radical or surprising’, Supreme Court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/2YZnv4tWaU
- Abortion rights advocates vow to fight on after supreme court hearing: Leaders say they will look to statehouses and lower courts if justices allow undermining of Roe v Wade #US https://t.co/993wAwLOT3
- Khan released from bench warrant after 'surrendering herself to the court' | Law Gazette https://t.co/2EgsIBS6J6
- The #US Supreme Court appears poised to accept a Mississippi law that would bar abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, even in cases of rape or incest https://t.co/YO13NcXAwA
- Conveyancers face 'unjustified' negligence claims over stamp duty | Law Gazette https://t.co/hT86o0M6j6
