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17th January - Law News

Edition 3674: 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: Thousands of protesters from the ‘Kill the Bill’ and Youth Climate Action movements took to the Bristol streets to demonstrate against two equally controversial bills – the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, and the Nationality and Borders Bill – that are being debated in the House of Lords.

 Focus of the Day Article: Sole practitioners are swapping private practice for consultancy at larger firms in increasing numbers due to rising professional indemnity insurance (PII) premiums, research shows. Full story - New Law Journal

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Concern for UK security as anti-vaxxer groups evolve towards US-style militias - Counter-terrorism officials are monitoring movement amid military-style training and lurch towards violent extremism https://t.co/cS0gBKACSW
  • Liverpool John Moores law grad jailed over £1 million drugs trafficking conspiracy - Legal Cheek https://t.co/qgnZZagu6E
  • POCSO Act: Supreme Court issues notice on schoolteacher's plea challenging Madras High Court conviction https://t.co/pkCRR9HzJC 
  • The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) is polling its members on taking direct action or ‘as a minimum’ adopting a no returns policy should ministers fail to commit to increase fees | NLJ https://t.co/pwSq8RKnM
  • The Weekly Round-Up: Colston Four acquitted, the new offence of breastfeeding voyeurism, and the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/hp6xAB57N1 J
  • GDL providers take different approaches to exams in response to Omicron spread - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ezLs9txdhC
  • "In these stones horizons sing" https://t.co/ocqAIq7PmI
  • The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is delighted to share with you that the next CPS Legal Trainee Scheme (LTS) is open for applications | NLJ https://t.co/aoIMbyOvZM
  • Best of Law Pod UK 2021 - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/1BMYkZQfaG 
  • MI5 issues warning about SRA-regulated solicitor working as 'agent' for Chinese Communist Party - Legal Cheek https://t.co/7CGcZOpLnx
  • Nextbike resumes in Cardiff after vandalism and thefts - Stations have been closed in Cardiff at Brachdy Road, Stacey Road, Newport Road, and Star Hub, Splott https://t.co/3m4wOqzc0I
  • The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is delighted to share with you that the next CPS Legal Trainee Scheme (LTS) is open for applications | NLJ https://t.co/NlISYuYo2b
  • [COVID-19] Kerala High Court decides to revert to online hearing from January 17 | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/pKKv3ijK1T 
  • PIL filed before Bombay High Court to implement e-stamping in Maharashtra | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/cFMyTAxUhV 
  • BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen: Government announcement will force broadcaster to close services and make further redundancies https://t.co/EWcab1sCTJ 
  • ‘Dismay’ at Cambridge University decision to axe prisoner scheme after terror attack - Penal reformers and ex-offenders criticise decision to halt programme in wake of Fishmongers’ Hall deaths https://t.co/BNGUmGahaS
  • The best legal work and study set-ups from across social media - Legal Cheek https://t.co/qw7TQdPnTX
  • What is Operation Red Meat? Boris Johnson’s plan to rescue his premiership explained https://t.co/Opsn6u4WTC 
  • A hostage taker who detained four people at a synagogue in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, was a British citizen, reports say. The man interrupted a morning service in Colleyville on Saturday and has since died https://t.co/1MuqBBtz7c
  • Linklaters narrows gender pay gap - Legal Cheek https://t.co/2HQ43Wjifw 
  • ‘Minimal’ activity such as offering subscriptions in the UK is enough to make a US online magazine subject to the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), the Court of Appeal has held in a landmark case | NLJ https://t.co/XCJ6k9ZPBA 
  • British man made stateless by Home Office has citizenship reinstated: The plight of the father of three, stranded in Bangladesh since 2017, foreshadows the dangers of the nationality bill now before parliament https://t.co/GQhKZrn5jD 
  • Langwith Junction, murder probe after woman, 88, found in house - Officers were called by paramedics at 09:30 GMT on Saturday to a house in Station Road, Langwith Junction, and found the couple https://t.co/gqMPB0S5bp
  • ‘There is so much we can do that is not necessarily taught at law school’ - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/gmy9YtRDQ
  • Novak Djokovic is set to be deported from #Australia after losing a last-ditch court bid to stay in the country. Judges rejected his challenge to the government's decision to cancel the unvaccinated player's visa on "health and good order" grounds https://t.co/2gc2PiVGI6
  • 'When is the best time to specify my preferred NQ department?' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/mCQOzhF6rs 
  • Sole practitioners are swapping private practice for consultancy at larger firms in increasing numbers due to rising professional indemnity insurance (PII) premiums, research shows | NLJ https://t.co/kqc9ZWdEbY
  • Jamaican authorities have arrested a former #Haitian senator who is a prime suspect in the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. John Joel Joseph was arrested on Friday, Jamaica Constabulary Force spokesman Dennis Brooks said https://t.co/MImK39tphV
  • Virtual student event NEXT WEEK: How to secure pupillage - with Gatehouse Chambers, Henderson Chambers and Radcliffe Chambers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/zVw0CpK5M4 
  • Prince Harry is seeking a judicial review against the refusal of the Home Office to allow him to personally pay for police protection when in the UK. The Duke of Sussex says his private security team does not have adequate jurisdiction abroad https://t.co/PsNzWDhQn0
  • Meet the ULaw student sharing his hilarious law school struggles on TikTok - Legal Cheek https://t.co/UWMEP1AAsA 
  • Prince Andrew will no longer be ‘HRH’ – and that is now the least of his worries https://t.co/iMKaI9f4Nv
  • Get to grips with crypto and blockchain, top judge tells lawyers - Legal Cheek https://t.co/bMwftwTN6L 
  • Police in the #US state of Texas are negotiating with a man who has taken several hostages at a synagogue in the town of Colleyville. One hostage was freed late on Saturday, police said. He was unharmed and no other injuries have been reported https://t.co/prZEHINgBY 
  • How #Lebanon’s antiquated citizenship laws deny stateless people and their children basic rights and welfare https://t.co/RiDFJpPhu2 J
  • Beauchamps appoints five new partners | Irish Legal News https://t.co/Xef3uqDmac 
  • [BREAKING] Alapan Bandyopadhyay moves Delhi High Court challenging CAT principal Bench order | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/47CqAi9Uhy