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30th January - Law News

Edition 3687: 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: A dispute has broken out in France over the price of a baguette. They usually cost about a dollar each at the bakery, but a French supermarket chain is selling the bread for a fraction of the price.

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • WorkNest’s Paman Singh sets new record with Law Society accreditation | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/JjP5WzJQfS 
  • Hewlett-Packard wins civil fraud case against Mike Lynch over Autonomy sale https://t.co/SfdAor4muN
  • Consultants head back to ‘traditional’ practice by starting new firm | Law Gazette https://t.co/wIOcTpHNRo 
  • Nearly half of law firms are considering mergers and acquisitions (M&As), researchers have found | NLJ https://t.co/wzFEjWCrjY
  • Scots Law Series – Practical Advice Beyond Disruption | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ZfaCvhaNs8 
  • Court transfers judicial review case from London to Manchester | Law Gazette https://t.co/ZyPY4xHQih
  • I was engaged to an undercover police officer - everything in the relationship was a lie https://t.co/I9j2JZnU14 
  • A 35-year-old man has been found guilty of stalking British number one tennis player Emma Raducanu. Amrit Magar from Edgware was convicted at Bromley Magistrates' Court on Friday and will be sentenced at a later date https://t.co/B0QjOrA8ml
  • The High Court has dismissed a ‘failure to remove’ claim against two local authorities, in a case involving the application of the Human Right Act 1998 to local authorities exercising statutory child protection functions | NLJ https://t.co/nv7QWbQeBh
  • The Australian woman suing #Iceland: Walker was convicted of assaulting her ex-husband in Reykjavík in 2017. Now she and eight other women are taking Iceland to court claiming human rights violations https://t.co/uUDbhHgprl
  • US tech giant wins biggest ever civil fraud trial | Law Gazette https://t.co/b4YxVVanDM
  • RT @anyleftiwonder: Search underway for teenager who may have travelled to Blackpool https://t.co/tGyX8OzVlh 
  • Lawyers are being arbitrarily arrested, prosecuted, convicted, forcibly disappeared, and even killed across the world because of their work upholding the rule of law, the Law Society has warned | NLJ https://t.co/qLTGM2unj7
  • A 19th Century lighthouse lantern worth about £1m was stolen from a storage facility, police said. The theft has been linked to a series of high value burglaries in Ilfracombe and Woolacombe in north Devon. https://t.co/824ndaEubi
  • A 24-year old man has been arrested after a report of racist abuse directed at ITV pundit and former England footballer Ashley Cole during Swindon Town's FA Cup match with Manchester City https://t.co/a4LfryiPis
  • TLT appoints commercial property expert Karen Hunt in Glasgow | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/MYeJqi4NPn
  • SRA 'elevated' technical issue into dishonesty suspicion, court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/Q65Vi86bch
  • A joint report on the safe introduction of self-driving vehicles has been published by the Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission this week | NLJ https://t.co/QwfgHutaZl
  • Professor Alan Miller to chair national drugs collaborative | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/AZ4T2TqILJ
  • Biggest civil fraud trial ends in ‘substantial’ victory for HP | Law Gazette https://t.co/7jtC7pofAN 
  • Calling all sports-loving people in the legal world―this year’s Law Society RFC 7s and Netball Tournament is on, and bigger than ever | NLJ https://t.co/QCQLkTm2Qe
  • ‘Killed by indifference’: #France shocked by death on busy Paris street. Swiss photographer René Robert died from hypothermia after falling and being ignored for nine hours https://t.co/N7xBqZFCKI
  • LawCare reveals fall in lawyers seeking support - but more reporting stress | Law Gazette https://t.co/nDEQ3Z2CYN 
  • Tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch can be extradited to US, rules Priti Patel https://t.co/ZxO5p8Yp04 
  • IP-No: Mishcon postpones listing as market deemed too volatile | Law Gazette https://t.co/cOfDSKbRJx J
  • Darren Polson joins Aberdein Considine as head of mortgage operations | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/femfk9FpEA
  • Singer Chris Brown has been accused of drugging and raping a woman and is being sued for $20 million (£14.9m). The alleged assault reportedly took place on a yacht on 30 December 2020 in Miami, Florida #US https://t.co/pJr5tGvmfs
  • Scottish Law Commission – discussion paper on heritable securities: default and post-default | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/C9aUo7Sz2h 
  • 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