Edition 3686: 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 Madras High Court has reserved it's orders on a plea for a CBI probe into the death by suicide of a class XII girl. The parents allege the school attempted to forcibly convert her to Christianity after a seeing an unverified video in which the girl says two years ago that her warden asked her parents if she would convert to Christianity & her family refused. However in a new unverified video the 17 year old says "I couldn't concentrate in studies. I took poison fearing my marks would decline". The girl blames the warden of making her do other work saying "I had to look after accounts, do all the work"
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- A gang leader and his second-in-command who left a vulnerable man whose home they had "cuckooed" to "bleed to death in his living room" have been jailed. Leigh Smith, 48, was stabbed multiple times by Jacob Cookson, 18, and Logan Eaton, 17 https://t.co/2HrmIEIgYk
- Listed firm borrowed £10m to fund acquisition | Law Gazette https://t.co/tX2T95vGGF
- UK government advisers call for ‘proactive regulation’ around genomics: Report highlights ethical and practical issues surrounding the rapid advancement of the field https://t.co/9PLvRPivgf
- Khan practice intervention ‘fundamentally flawed’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/PFAC1el4Y
- Why the date people are most likely to file for divorce is changing in 2022 https://t.co/x9QJNwCGv
- Blog: The role of the regulator when things go wrong https://t.co/70BVMT1AE7
- A bill which would make British Sign Language a legally recognised language has received government backing. The proposed law, which passed its first hurdle in the Commons on Friday, would require public bodies to promote the language https://t.co/HRnzoXD26P
- Former Linklaters partner paid ‘very large’ sums for trial evidence | Law Gazette https://t.co/eBLgUOjYB
- A British "hitman" has been found guilty of conspiring to kill a Pakistani dissident in the Netherlands. A court in London heard Muhammad Gohir Khan was offered £100,000 (about $134,000) to carry out the murder in Rotterdam last year https://t.co/09UkwDyfAe
- The Premier League and Uefa are taking legal advice over the use of images of their trophies in non-fungible token (NFT) digital assets being promoted by John Terry and other big names in English football https://t.co/sEkZmmQZXl
- Some of the nurses and doctors at the biggest hospital in #Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region are having to beg for food to feed themselves. They have not been paid for eight months https://t.co/fnIeeZjt2y
- Couple
jailed over the death of their eight-week old baby who died in south
London with more than 60 broken bones in her body. Amina-Faye Johnson
suffered 41 fractures to her ribs and 24 more to other limbs during
"continued physical abuse", police said https://t.co/LyQWQwrvFJ
- Legal problem diagnosis app crowdfunds cash for expansion - Legal Futures https://t.co/MWwiVg7pR4
- Solicitor claiming race discrimination against CPS loses latest case | Law Gazette https://t.co/UZT8CGosN7
- High Court spreads load as it transfers JR from London to Manchester - Legal Futures https://t.co/OJSINiH91o
- Leading
criminal barrister Michelle Colborne QC has returned to Bradford’s
Broadway House Chambers after taking a sabbatical in 2019 https://t.co/cDhoDxChC1
- Number of pupil barristers rebounds after Covid-related slump - Legal Futures https://t.co/gpYzcSTi6
- Bar Council reveals declining state of junior lawyers’ mental health https://t.co/5gAqpEZVdm
- Lawyer or leader? Obviously the best answer is to be both | Law Gazette https://t.co/DA2YATfoJu
- Insurers invest in new professional negligence ABS - Legal Futures https://t.co/D3VNDWWURx
- Recorded rapes and sexual offences in England and Wales hit record high - There were 63,136 rapes recorded in the year to September, ONS figures show, up 13% from the previous year https://t.co/9IHaaIJbbP
- Netflix must answer a defamation case over its hit series The Queen's Gambit, a US judge has ruled. The streaming giant is accused of misrepresenting "one of the most significant career achievements" of chess master Nona Gaprindashvili https://t.co/VUGtUz94Q4
- Review to examine which abortion objectives have not been achieved #Ireland https://t.co/fDbOSarOLt
- A former Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with rape, attempted rape and indecent assault. It follows allegations of an incident in Teddington in April 2004 when Stephen Kyere was a serving officer but was off duty, the Met said https://t.co/nccPDFLkAT
- The Highway Code: 8 changes you need to know from 29 January 2022: Rules for all types of road users will be updated in The Highway Code to improve the safety of people walking, cycling and riding horses https://t.co/lSQm3gHlPh
- Doubts
emerge over the timing of the positive Covid test Novak Djokovic used
to enter #Australia to try to compete in the Australian Open. The serial
number on his test on 16 Dec appears out of sequence with a sample of
tests from Serbia over this period https://t.co/olGmpid5J2
- Battered Biden gets opportunity to change political narrative as Justice Breyer retires: president faces high expectations as he prepares make one of his most consequential decisions #US https://t.co/YfaTtMjoK1
- An 18-year-old man has been charged in connection with the attack of two Jewish men who were beaten-up while locking up their shop in north London. Police were called to Cadoxton Avenue, Haringey, at 21:50 GMT on Wednesday https://t.co/EnDOWDE8yF
- Justice minister defends legal aid timetable | Law Gazette https://t.co/juMyU3KQha
- #US appeals court overturns convictions of two former Deutsche Bank traders who were prosecuted for rigging interest rates. In a legally significant judgment, judges acquitted Matthew Connolly, 58, from New Jersey and Gavin Black, 52, from Twickenham https://t.co/72w2JUFjae
- The Metropolitan Police has asked senior civil servant Sue Gray to make "minimal reference" to events they are investigating in her report. Ms Gray's inquiry into lockdown parties in Downing Street had been due to be released this week https://t.co/zmOWEtjagG
- UK equalities watchdog urges Scotland to pause gender recognition reforms - Campaigners criticise letter from Equality and Human Rights Commission as ‘troubling’ https://t.co/rT8DYqX6la
- Criminal legal aid response is too important to rush | Law Gazette https://t.co/a31KPSyedO
- Court rules woman was raped, in landmark Scottish civil case: Woman says she has closure as court awards her damages, after jury found criminal charges not proven https://t.co/hyTiZ3OrpJ
- Home Office loses appeal over citizenship removal | Law Gazette https://t.co/soFNcoaZSc
- MoD seeks to buy back 38,000 homes leased from billionaire: Guy Hands and Annington Homes, rather than taxpayers, benefited from soaring UK property market after 1996 privatisation https://t.co/cBpVKamdwU
- UK warned to bolster defences against cyber attacks as Russia threatens Ukraine https://t.co/kIrdwCtlgY
- UK unlawfully stripped woman of citizenship without telling her – court: Ruling against Home Office comes as government tries to remove requirement to give notice in some circumstances https://t.co/XZfcEia6V2
- Lawyers question strength of Prince Andrew’s response to lawsuit. Legal experts question whether document filed with US district court can help royal avoid ‘disastrous’ trial https://t.co/LsbHeMvcQ6
