Edition 3635: 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: Chair of the Bar for 2022, Mark Fenhalls QC, delivers his inaugural speech at Gray’s Inn on 7 December 2021, setting out his hopes and aims for the Bar during his year as Chair
Focus of the Day Story: A cross-party parliamentary group has urged the government not to pursue a ‘nuclear option’ in its judicial review reforms that could result in serious human rights abuses. In a report published today, the Joint Committee on Human Rights says the government should introduce procedural reforms for so-called Cart JRs, rather than discontinue this particular legal avenue. Full story - The Law Society Gazette
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- A small Brexit dividend for lawyer-client confidentiality? | Law Gazette https://t.co/tzj0aHq0Cp
- FAI into M9 crash deaths to take place more than six years after accident - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/QC8ZRDO8x1
- Online litigant penalised for abuse of process | Law Gazette https://t.co/RZqZsFni1r
- Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O), formerly known as Facebook, said on Wednesday it would ban all Myanmar-military controlled businesses from having a presence on its platforms in an expansion of its earlier curbs on the country's security forces https://t.co/oo9FUqGrZ
- Campaign to make misogyny a hate crime rebuffed by Law Commission https://t.co/7Cmok07DwV
- Dyson says it will appeal after £150m damages claim rejected by EU court: Case follows earlier legal victory over energy efficiency stickers on vacuum cleaners that firm said misled buyers https://t.co/evQF2wpxx
- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the UK will diplomatically boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics, due to be held in February 2022. In a parliamentary statement, Mr Johnson said he typically did not support "sporting boycotts" https://t.co/Ji52yxWZ1p
- British cyclist Mark Cavendish was assaulted by four armed men during a burglary at his home on 27 November. Cavendish, 36, said he, his wife Peta and their children were threatened "at knifepoint" by the men and he was "violently attacked" https://t.co/4rPZuktWId
- The government is adding terrifying amendments to the policing bill, putting the UK on a path to dictatorship https://t.co/lAaqFwUK7m
- Government mulls reforms to essential patent regime | Law Gazette https://t.co/KSSva2gg8B
- Incoming Bar chair: "I was wrong to be colour blind in approach to race" - Legal Futures https://t.co/VSyBjvXnwq
- A nurse has been charged with a series of sexual offences against staff and patients at a Sheffield hospital. Paul Grayson, an operating theatre nurse at the Royal Hallamshire, faces 20 charges including sexual assault and voyeurism https://t.co/mn1XAoBaef
- Sydney GP denies doing deal with dying patient to secure lion’s share of $30m estate, court hears #Australia https://t.co/J8JuGsPx1j
- Kent firm eyes major expansion as it offers efficient staff a 'You day' - Legal Futures https://t.co/ahcGFY1xyH
- Super-regulator acknowledges that PII costs are driving firms under | Law Gazette https://t.co/cc41XNFwHH
- Regulators of legal services must develop plans for “remedial action to address competence issues” among lawyers, according to a draft policy statement published today by the Legal Services Board - Legal Futures https://t.co/zheCoxQAXl
- Allegra Stratton has resigned as a government adviser following an angry backlash over a video of No 10 staff joking about holding a Christmas party https://t.co/hgno89PR8b
- Fred Konynenburg obituary: Fred Konynenburg, who has taken his own life aged 52, was a highly respected lawyer with the international commercial law firm Hill Dickinson https://t.co/1xoOCHhHbj
- The
High Court has struck out a barrister’s petition to wind up a company
he said he loaned £30,000 so it could pay the solicitors he introduced
to them - Legal Futures https://t.co/XkLmIRnU1o
- Tate viewing platform nuisance case reaches Supreme Court | Law Gazette https://t.co/rMNjp1fq7F
- Society names interim chief executive | Law Gazette https://t.co/iMc4IUj6n
- Rehana Popal is the first female of Afghan descent to become a barrister in England and Wales: The former child refugee helping Afghan asylum seekers https://t.co/eAW6tKSqv6
- Mercedes' sponsorship deal with Kingspan, a firm that made insulation material involved in the Grenfell Tower disaster, has ended a week after it was announced https://t.co/GROHsZYwXg
- Lord committee recommends amendments to Judicial Review and Courts Bill - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/SUC7rPH9Hs
- Former Spanish king claims immunity from English courts | Law Gazette https://t.co/yw97fSyoos
- UK’s anti-money laundering measures need complete reset, says report https://t.co/dSvJfJlHVU
- Lord chancellor faces JR over immigration detainees’ legal advice | Law Gazette https://t.co/kPhDIoPTBQ
- Bernard Collaery trial: Coalition tells high court release of judgment would risk national security #Australia https://t.co/YyVdcqJlHF
- Dundee schoolteacher fails to prove mental health deterioration from being hit by wooden partition - Scottish Legal News https://t.co/GAeAcGXxni
- 'Nuclear option': human rights committee highlights JR danger | Law Gazette https://t.co/2bACg8EpLv
- Compulsory retirement of partners: problems and opportunities - Legal Futures https://t.co/FvPri5uY5S
- News focus: Pre-charge anonymity - a presumption of privacy | Law Gazette https://t.co/a7XVeNtej3
- Sibghat Kadri obituary: Lawyer who pursued principles of racial equality both for those he represented as a barrister and within the legal establishment https://t.co/uz74ZrgHAz
- Claimant liable for abuse of process after misusing online claim system - Legal Futures https://t.co/y8UAw4O0f6
- Solicitor used estate money to clear overdraft while client was in prison | Law Gazette https://t.co/wsOoHbrajK
- Solicitor avoids strike-off despite lying to SRA and insurer - Legal Futures https://t.co/Y6TlQCDilq
- Two clients sentenced to prison over fees contempt | Law Gazette https://t.co/BAA1YspDJr
- City law firms fund training of social welfare solicitors - Legal Futures https://t.co/7juYTJB1ZY
- Tribunal slashes costs awards to SRA | Law Gazette https://t.co/WQt0C4IcxJ
- Oversight regulator to put cost of PII under the microscope - Legal Futures https://t.co/82aN2xKeHY
