Edition 3678: 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: The Federal Court releases the reasons why it upheld the federal government's decision to cancel the visa of tennis star Novak Djokovic, five days after he was deported from Australia
Focus of the Day Article: Global graft enforcement set to rise as regulators revive anti-corruption efforts. Compliance burden also likely to increase around ESG issues. Full story - The Global Legal Post
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- PI firm still suffering 'headwinds' from Covid lockdown | Law Gazette https://t.co/sDCbqgkh5V
- Ex Guantánamo detainee plans legal action to restore British passport: Moazzam Begg’s application for new passport rejected despite terror prosecution collapsing in 2014 https://t.co/Nhgwkzs1Ox
- #Thailand plans to make marijuana legal and axe jail terms for possession https://t.co/roxRWDtda
- Tory defector says whips told him to back PM or lose school funds: Christian Wakeford allegation comes as senior Tory urges MPs to report claims of attempted blackmail https://t.co/BDxB57g1oG
- Legislation to bring the promotion of crypto-assets under the wing of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will be introduced when parliamentary time allows | Law Gazette https://t.co/Cg6mQkMP4g
- Former #India Supreme Court judge Justice AK Sikri joins as associate member of 4 Pump Court in London | Bar & Bench https://t.co/4cXpB74G8G
- MoJ criticised for not prioritising work to support female offenders | Law Gazette https://t.co/zXRW4TuLup
- Stormont ministers have agreed to drop the use of vaccine passports in pubs, restaurants and cinemas in Northern Ireland from midday on Wednesday. The move is part of several relaxations to Northern Ireland's Covid rules https://t.co/2tsaesYC7R
- Delays in prosecuting suspected criminals have hit a record 708 days for the average time it takes to go from offence to completion of a case. In the three months to September 2021, the average time it took to deal with a crime rose 15%, up from 620 days https://t.co/xCaDYdhcNc
- An Edinburgh nursery has been fined £800,000 after an 11-month-old boy in its care died after choking on a piece of food | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/GXTT9BifE3
- Conveyancing firms may be forced to buy stand-alone cyber cover | Law Gazette https://t.co/p3rg11SZ5c
- Analysis: Reflections on the judicial review application on the UK government’s use of a PPE ‘VIP lane’ | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/8y07eavzZX
- Solicitors are facing a ‘more parlous’ situation than barristers in relation to legal aid, the retired judge who led a government-commissioned review has told MPs | Law Gazette https://t.co/BmeZ1V5hyY
- Legal opinion by leading immigration barristers finds clause 9 of Nationality and Borders Bill gives Home Secretary “exorbitant, ill-defined and unconstitutional” power to remove citizenship https://t.co/AJpR59xFQg
- McCann FitzGerald survey finds employers want access to employees’ vaccine status | Irish Legal News https://t.co/MOUqytP4ND
- Former pope Benedict XVI failed to act over four child abuse cases when he was archbishop of Munich, a #German probe into the Catholic Church has found https://t.co/7hx7D49NuF
- Police unlawfully ‘vetoed’ Everard vigil, High Court told | Law Gazette https://t.co/lSYvTu3o1L
- From barrister to bobby on the beat - meet the County Durham man who changed career at 51 - Defence barrister Christopher Mitford has given up courtroom antics in exchange for policing the streets of County Durham https://t.co/TXXHFxAovl
- Peers in the Lords have voted in favour of an amendment to the Police, Crime, Courts and Sentencing Bill to scrap the Vagrancy Act across England and Wales| Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yfqIXCDdAF
- Fake endorsements from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are being used on social media to promote Bitcoin-related investment schemes. Photos and bogus interviews with Prince Harry and Meghan and other celebrities are being used to attract investors https://t.co/X6zh5rrYIs
- Mona
Warren obituary - A solicitors and former councillor for Broadwater,
justice was core to her outlook – but social justice, not just narrow
legalism https://t.co/bl55ttoSw9
- Ex-Dechert partner alleged to have put investigator through ‘perjury school’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/F77tnuASVs
- People owed an estimated £2m by English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson have appointed an independent insolvency expert to try to recover their money before a March deadline https://t.co/7iXglS9lKY
- Ghislaine
Maxwell has officially requested a retrial, weeks after she was
convicted on sexual abuse charges. The 60-year-old was found guilty of
recruiting and trafficking young girls to be sexually abused by the late
American financier Jeffrey Epstein https://t.co/oztP3poITW
- #Italian police arrest alleged Black Axe Nigerian mafia members over trafficking https://t.co/9LITnQxvqI
- Criminal law solicitors suffering more than barristers, says Bellamy - Legal Futures https://t.co/bkYwuunVWH
- Without reform of child justice, things will get bleaker | Law Gazette https://t.co/Z05RxgIffP
- Hacking attack on Red Cross exposes data of 515,000 vulnerable people - Global headquarters forced to shut down computer systems for programme that reunites families separated by conflict https://t.co/WNJKxDqSlm
- MoJ threatened with fine over huge data request backlog - Legal Futures https://t.co/yGgsK9lljX
- Government could be forced to draw up new bill after ‘draconian’ protest laws defeated by Lords https://t.co/RzzLfAKasg
- Úna Butler appointed to Competition and Consumer Protection Commission | Irish Legal News https://t.co/lOq7n2nKWu
- Barrister disbarred for false judicial review promise - Legal Futures https://t.co/FihSmVwolt
- A man has appeared at a special court in the Republic of Ireland charged with the murder of Ashling Murphy. He is Jozef Puska, 31, with an address in Lynally Grove, Mucklagh, Tullamore https://t.co/ccs1zjredI
- Solicitor exploited elderly client to arrange under-value sale | Law Gazette https://t.co/NjY7v5zvIZ
- Scottish beer giant Brewdog sent multiple shipments of beer to the US, in contravention of US federal laws: Staff at its Ellon brewery were put under pressure in 2016 and 2017 to ship beer with ingredients that had not been legally approved https://t.co/Ho4xi7RKQz
- Christian Porter and barrister Sue Chrysanthou ordered to pay Jo Dyer $430,000 in legal costs #Australia https://t.co/OfXB99QkP4
