Edition 3671: 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: America is a nation of immigrants that continues to wrestle with a hatred of immigrants. An examination of the history of anti-immigrant panic in the US: Undocumented Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas joins to explain why he thinks America's broken immigration system might be by design.
Focus of the Day Article: Senior counsel success for pair of women commercial disputes lawyers in Singapore. Appointment of Marina Chin and Swee Yen Koh alongside Tan Puay Boon bring total SC tally to 94. Full story - The Global Legal Post
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- Crypto: Let’s party like it’s 1996 | Law Gazette https://t.co/iQnJuwJGTm
- Boris Johnson's staff accused of more rule-breaking parties inside No 10 https://t.co/Vb70Beet5e
- UK Proposes to Extend UK REACH Registration Deadline and Explore Alternative Information Requirements https://t.co/grwPU8pYmR
- Mishcon expects ‘very strong’ year as IPO looms | Law Gazette https://t.co/p7lp0ubnOT
- #US federal judge in Chicago wants attorneys at global law firm Dentons to explain their request to withdraw as counsel to a Japanese pachinko billionaire who is embroiled in a multi-million dollar legal fee fight with litigation firm Bartlit Beck https://t.co/Omh3aoTGV
- Gateley ‘on track’ as interim profit rises 19.5% | Law Gazette https://t.co/H6PaB487X3
- McCartan Turkington Breen appoints two new partners and six associates | Irish Legal News https://t.co/2J03kDWMPk
- An alert from the security service MI5 stated that Christine Ching Kui Lee "established links" for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with current and aspiring MPs https://t.co/CcB9AKj0n
- The
Duke of York's military titles and royal patronages have been returned
to the Queen, Buckingham Palace has announced. Prince Andrew will stop
using the style His Royal Highness in an official capacity, a royal
source said https://t.co/LpwshbAZdZ
- End-to-end e-conveyancing is here, supplier claims | Law Gazette https://t.co/3viOnAYxDB
- New barrister-run litigation firm chooses SRA regulation - Legal Futures https://t.co/UPYxFQb4Tt
- UP court issues arrest warrant against Swami Prasad Maurya in seven-year-old case of hurting religious sentiment | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/h63yOaCGfX
- A lawyer for the woman accusing the Duke of York of sexually assaulting her at 17 says a money settlement alone will not be enough for his client #US https://t.co/K0N3kW9uL1
- Junior solicitor at SRA's lawyers struck off for misleading client - Legal Futures https://t.co/0k5CHphAeE
- The
self-isolation period for people who test positive for Covid-19 is
being cut to five full days in England, from Monday, people will be able
to leave isolation after negative lateral flow tests on days five and
six https://t.co/tsgyUFegh8
- In-house solicitor found with 15,000 indecent images of children struck off | Law Gazette https://t.co/tzOIP1VXD
- Irish solicitor James MacGuill takes up CCBE leadership | Irish Legal News https://t.co/A8Brgd5MEa
- Solicitor Soophia Khan jailed for contempt | Law Gazette https://t.co/rA8i4zTvPG
- DAC Beachcroft moves to new Glasgow office | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/VdzchUziyG J
- Khan asks High Court to set aside SRA's deliver-up orders | Law Gazette https://t.co/oplbsPPTpb
- UK government sued over ‘pie-in-the-sky’ net-zero climate strategy - ClientEarth and Friends of the Earth say strategy fails to include policies needed to ensure emissions cuts https://t.co/qa3QY7wQrU
- Proposed legislation which will provide a right of access to birth certificates, birth and early life information for people who have questions about their origins has been published | Irish Legal News https://t.co/C3cb5GgSdC
- Planners set to approve 51-storey London tower with only one staircase: Fire safety expert says it would be ‘utter madness’ to approve plans for one of UK’s tallest residential buildings https://t.co/FB5Pn1ShjT
- MoJ confirms probate fee hike | Law Gazette https://t.co/mriWmlx9g
- Leading campaigner urges UK to target wealth of Kazakhstani elite- Bill Browder, who pushed for Magnitsky law, says anti-corruption laws should be used in response to deaths of at least 164 protesters https://t.co/Z4ayxeAP6
- The UK Supreme Court, in partnership with Royal Holloway, University of London, has launched an online course | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/LXc9FF920q
- UK
barrister Simon Davis has been appointed as #Cayman’s new Director of
Public Prosecutions, the Judicial and Legal Services Commission
announced Tuesday https://t.co/SRmByxqO5e
- Supreme Court allows leapfrog appeal in CETA challenge | Irish Legal News https://t.co/UBUCbiXtgX
- #French police have arrested a suspect over the unsolved 2012 murder of a British family and a French citizen in the Alps. Few details were given, but police said a man was in custody "in order to do verifications regarding his schedule" https://t.co/dCHYoRn8xe
- ‘VIP lane’ for PPE contracts unlawful, High Court rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/qdXOxaju53
- Richard Shepherd joins Gilson Gray | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/6i7aL3azhB
- A mother and stepfather who kept their starving autistic son locked in a "disgusting" attic bedroom have been found guilty of false imprisonment. Matthew Langley, 22, was "close to death" inside the vomit and faeces-covered room https://t.co/yvy4Eh86ZY
- ‘What
we saw alarmed us’: the long fight to expose ‘VIP lane’ Covid contracts
- Court ruling that UK government’s way of procuring PPE was illegal
was culmination of transparency struggle starting in mid 2020 https://t.co/NQox2UkrF8
- Can client development skills help law firms also retain their legal talent? https://t.co/R92xak1r5L
- Kim Kardashian is among three celebrities being sued by investors in the EthereumMax crypto-currency. Other defendants include boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr, basketball player Paul Pierce, and the currency's creators https://t.co/zB4HopzAFz
- Philip Lee welcomes four newly-qualified solicitors | Irish Legal News https://t.co/131k5peXI9
- Prince Andrew civil case: What happens next? https://t.co/eucqkvOVX
- The UK is heading towards authoritarianism: just look at this attack on a minority https://t.co/ThuwV1dJjc
- #Spanish court orders doctors be compensated for lack of Covid PPE https://t.co/bK8qIZQSXB
- The Post Office has been unable to contact 126 people who were convicted of crimes on the basis of evidence from the flawed Horizon computer system https://t.co/DR2L5sy3sa
- Sarah Jones blasts government over killer knife legal loophole after LBC investigation https://t.co/zWLITiTAqE
- Met Police facing legal challenge for not investigating Boris Johnson parties https://t.co/K3OsKfjVV6
- UK lawmaker Jim Shannonbreaks down when revealing mother-in-law died alone of Covid https://t.co/iqruQHYJN8
- Shoosmiths opens Brussels office | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/4DpNuGLREj
- The jail sentence handed to the mother of murdered toddler Star Hobson was "too low", the attorney general says. Star died in 2020 after months of "neglect, cruelty and injury" https://t.co/mED5jheRTm
