Edition 3683: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.
-------------------------------------------------------------
Today's Highlighted Video Story: The Metropolitan Police have launched an investigation into parties held in No 10 during the coronavirus pandemic. Commissioner Cressida Dick said they were looking into "potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations" in Downing Street and Whitehall since 2020. The news comes after fresh allegations of a birthday party being held for the prime minister in June 2020.
Focus of the Day Article: Judges will be doing more to encourage the involvement of junior barristers and solicitors in remote hearings, the Chancellor of the High Court has said. Sir Julian Flaux also outlined how he wanted to see more property cases before the Business & Property Courts. Full story - Legal Futures
 |
| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Top-200 firms finalise merger plan but London office to close | Law Gazette https://t.co/V55Zj1BTwB
- Louise Rands Silva obituary: she worked as my assistant for nearly 30 years, on cases, books and a myriad of other activities relating to matters of international law and justice https://t.co/nAFBUceZCW
- Barrister who made lewd remarks to mini-pupil loses suspension appeal | Law Gazette https://t.co/6Ire0AHflO
- £262bn
investor says it will target bosses who fail on climate or human rights
- Aviva Investors says voting at AGMs will be influenced by policies on
climate, human rights, biodiversity and executive pay https://t.co/jyWuzwExpi
- Automated justice: striking the balance in injury claims - Legal Futures https://t.co/cUercFVKRO
- Day of the Endangered Lawyer | Law Gazette https://t.co/swGfxyWDbZ
- Barrister suspended for lewd comments to mini-pupil fails in appeal - Legal Futures https://t.co/WXS13MaDDv
- Hymen repair surgery and virginity testing to be banned in UK https://t.co/GU7ddyKQvH
- Attempting to ban protest is usually the mark of a repressive state. That’s not us, is it? https://t.co/kGmOUS5s9H
- The Premier League will speak to the Football Association, the English Football League and the police amid a rise in incidents of crowd trouble. Arrests at football matches across the top five English leagues are at their highest levels in years https://t.co/Yi5IhOHwSU
- Accountancy body refused permission to exit probate regulation - Legal Futures https://t.co/MONVKmeFpj
- Magistrates told to stay silent on 'disrespectful' attacks by lawyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/BVUMgIwiTZ
- Flaux: Remote hearings robbing junior lawyers of vital experience - Legal Futures https://t.co/A0aGTep38
- Sentencing guidelines plans could be frustrated by ‘limited’ data | Irish Legal News https://t.co/KauqRmAI7T
- Guidance urging people to work from home wherever possible in Scotland is to be relaxed in favour of a "hybrid" system of office and remote working. Phase back into spending some time in the office from Monday 31 January https://t.co/tqiaRYgXn9
- Solicitor “failed to notice” client's judicial review had been struck out - Legal Futures https://t.co/lOK4QOkma
- 'Back in to work' day - offices still half-empty | Law Gazette https://t.co/SP2VlfzVzf
- Rapper Cardi B awarded almost £1m in damages in defamation lawsuit win against a YouTuber https://t.co/4aGDLl7asi
- Three new hires at Weightmans in Glasgow | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ycLGFuw9mP
- NHS Resolution names 11 firms to share work worth £193m a year | Law Gazette https://t.co/w1H0VTtVbk
- Campaign seeks to recruit 4,000 lay magistrates in England and Wales - Largest recruitment effort in 650-year history of magistracy comes amid 372,000 backlog of cases in magistrates courts https://t.co/FrwwVr7Od6
- Police to investigate Downing Street parties over potential lockdown breaches, Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick confirms https://t.co/0h3OObrhwT
- Northern Ireland protocol book released with open access | Irish Legal News https://t.co/WBv5w9IzCJ
- Supreme Court not feeling government 'pressure' over JR - Reed | Law Gazette https://t.co/411KOIcz
- Google warns of ‘devastating’ impact if court ruling on defamatory hyperlinks not overturned https://t.co/F503FE7Er
- Covid
danger in St Lucia’s tiny courts puts stop to murder trials - Covid
danger in St Lucia’s tiny courts puts stop to murder trials:
Ninety wait for justice as infection controls prevent juries from
sitting for two years https://t.co/3JeGbfNcJR
- Covid focuses minds as more firms look to grow through mergers | Law Gazette https://t.co/WrtCQzybL
- Metropolitan Police apology to woman over language in strip search - Dr Koshka Duff was detained in 2013 after offering a legal advice card to a black teenager during his stop-and-search https://t.co/ncZxBXkxCN
- Best of the blogs - 22 January 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/u9Igt4X31B
- The chief executive of Scottish beer giant Brewdog has been accused of inappropriate behaviour and abuse of power in the workplace by former staff https://t.co/uhIOPXNgYk
- Vicky Crichton: Introduction of alternative business structures a ‘welcome step’ | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/NcmflzJWMc
