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9th January - Law News

Edition 3666: 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: Protesters in South Korea started a movement 30 years ago to bring attention to the plight of so-called “comfort women”. They are demanding compensation for Koreans who were sexually enslaved before and during the second world war. Some activists fear the survivors may never live to see justice.

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • 'Hillsborough Law' seeks to curb legal spend by public bodies at inquests | Law Gazette https://t.co/5siB9kjL4P 
  • Opinion: The future of Irish banking will be decided over the coming months | Irish Legal News https://t.co/LwetlA9b33
  • Trainee solicitor prepares for Syria trip to help at refugee camps | Law Gazette https://t.co/yoY3X9ii4H
  • CILEX member permanently excluded after fraud convictions - Legal Futures https://t.co/fGwkitrL63
  • LPC pass rates unaffected by pandemic | Law Gazette https://t.co/5Bv3daf8VR
  • Former publican makes legal history with abuse of process claim | Law Gazette https://t.co/3LCHhwqc91
  • Skerries practice merges into Gerrard L. McGowan Solicitors LLP | Irish Legal News https://t.co/2ylXvyAeBN
  • Sussex firm moves into 'house of brands' | Law Gazette https://t.co/e3xOqPvSZJ
  • Are you ready to sign a personal guarantee to secure your indemnity insurance? - Legal Futures https://t.co/At6MduaCF0
  • #Kazakhstan's former intelligence chief has been arrested on suspicion of treason following nationwide anti-government protests. The detention of Karim Massimov was announced by the National Security Committee, a body he headed until his removal this week https://t.co/kv2AnXY4U8
  • Review by the Court concerning reduction of sentence: a brief Commentary | Robert O Harmsen - https://t.co/IsNZPWCz9z
  • The time for evidence-based law | Joao Padua - https://t.co/nvpIWCArcW 
  • Growing Yorkshire firm hands ownership over to employee trust | Law Gazette https://t.co/JGedl8Sqv3
  • ‘Funds for favours’: Geidt pressed to reopen investigation into PM’s flat - Emergence of ‘great exhibition’ messages seems to undermine ethics adviser’s finding https://t.co/GKZ7nnmRB4
  • England: Domestic abuse victims to be given more time to report assaults | Irish Legal News https://t.co/oXlTzhnYWC
  • Use of secondary legislation ‘dangerous for democracy’, peers warn | Law Gazette https://t.co/lTAP0pl6Cy
  • Judge slashes QC's £110k brief fee for case that settled before trial - Legal Futures https://t.co/trtjwKuQ6N
  • I’m a police officer, and I fear increased powers of stop and search will undermine public trust https://t.co/hjvrKk7k6K
  • Counsel’s fee stripped back for claim settled two weeks before trial | Law Gazette https://t.co/eK39AE089o
  • #Canadian officials say a group of social media influencers whose rowdy behaviour on a flight led to their stranding in Mexico have flown home to face an inquiry https://t.co/HJE10gnvPn 
  • Unvaccinated Novak Djokovic thus a bigger spreader of the covid19 virus, had a vaccine exemption to enter #Australia after a Covid infection on 16 December, his lawyers say in court documents https://t.co/rtd76C8su0
  • France fines Google and Facebook €210m | Irish Legal News https://t.co/SA3khoQPdd 
  • First female judge nominated for #Pakistan’s supreme court - Move to appoint Justice Ayesha Malik, who banned virginity tests for rape survivors, described as ‘defining moment’ for the country https://t.co/ETQBF4IFzf 
  • Increase in judicial retirement age could help diversity, MPs told | Law Gazette https://t.co/Dzhk3ufFeo
  • First law firm deal for 'House of brands' group - Legal Futures https://t.co/WFARMFugH7 
  • A round-up of human rights stories from around the world | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/mdlgyl08ak 
  • Flat owners will not have to pay to remove dangerous cladding from lower-height buildings under new government plans https://t.co/fwtm6vVPhr
  • Role models are key to improving diversity in the profession | Law Gazette https://t.co/MvinInayk0
  • Scottish ministers have appointed 15 part-time sheriffs and 17 part-time summary sheriffs | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/G06SJrdItm 
  • Former Downing Street adviser Dominic Cummings has alleged a social event which took place in No 10 on 20 May 2020 may have broken Covid ruleshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59913081
  • Fiduciary duty breaches do not need to go to High Court, costs judge rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/UmFWA6yAXK
  • Lawyers jump to juries’ defence as Tories fume at Colston Four verdict https://t.co/tL7fI4P5ws 
  • A philosophical look at corruption | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/x9FUAO0tDm 
  • A #German court has sentenced an ex-teacher to life in prison for murdering a man he met on an online dating site and desecrating his body. The judge in Berlin said Stefan R, 42, had killed the electrical engineer to "act out his fantasies of cannibalism" https://t.co/1bQezSFQGW 
  • Photographing breastfeeding mothers? It’s the mark of a truly misogynistic society https://t.co/OOkirkQmxC