Saturday

12th February - Law News

Edition 3700: 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: Music Composer Shankar Mahadevan makes a clarion call of equality and inclusion for persons with disability with his new song 'Garv Se Jiyenge' for NGO Enable India

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • KPMG facing £1.3bn High Court claim over Carillion audits | Law Gazette https://t.co/f3KXDAhoXP
  • The dangers of trial by social media | Law Gazette https://t.co/rjMld8lHC
  • Six people have been appointed to the board of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), allowing it to resume functioning | Irish Legal News https://t.co/8fWhmrdAuV
  • Addleshaw Goddard expands international footprint with Irish merger | Law Gazette https://t.co/fOQ1tOBBWa 
  • British women and children detained in Syria failed by UK government, inquiry finds https://t.co/jYpQb3vOYB
  • Family solicitor embarks on menopause campaign | Law Gazette https://t.co/rOrakM0Wuq
  • #US House to investigate whether Trump broke law in handling of documents - Panel asks National Archives to turn over communications about missing and destroyed records relevant to Capitol attack https://t.co/Xc0A4VipRI
  • Salary wars should not mean junior lawyers accept exploitation | Law Gazette https://t.co/42IadT2ByJ
  • Lord Ordinary orders proof in dispute over completion certificate for Glasgow Airport advertising structure | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/GdX5Bmhrlg
  • No lawyers referred to SRA over collapsed SFO prosecution, MPs told | Law Gazette https://t.co/NAR7GQgCPw
  • International law firm Bird & Bird to launch Dublin office | Irish Legal News https://t.co/UtT2YQDutf
  • Rushing legal aid reform 'opens us up to legal challenges', claims Raab | Law Gazette https://t.co/rhlp4Xpnd6
  • A citizens’ assembly on drug use will take place in “the latter part of this year”, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said | Irish Legal News https://t.co/knlV8fjRQC
  • Labour suspends whip from Neil Coyle after allegations of racist comments. MP has had party whip suspended after claims about racist remarks made about Chinese people https://t.co/7cXo8JmHwd 
  • [Hijab row] No religious garments till we decide the case, will pass interim order: Karnataka High Court | bAR & bENCH #iNDIA https://t.co/cvX8wqQeK7 
  • Solicitor rebuke overturned after SRA panel’s ’serious procedural error’ | Law Gazette https://t.co/fzGNLhtDW3
  • Rebecca Hogue's boyfriend beat her toddler son to death while she was at work. So why is she the one being called a murderer? #US https://t.co/cSHL0rTNQU 
  • Scottish government told to justify ongoing use of emergency rule-making powers | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/t3L71HwuqO
  • Convicted prosecutor claims CPS colleagues shared confidential files | Law Gazette https://t.co/XSL4DdSbt0 
  • HMRC accused of ‘ignorance and inaction’ over £6bn Covid fraud: Public accounts committee chair condemns tax authority after billions written off https://t.co/kr3DfMQ34E 
  • Three lawyers have been appointed to Northern Ireland’s Civil Legal Services Appeal Panel, which adjudicates appeals against civil legal aid decisions | Irish Legal News https://t.co/JqwkS7q3uj
  • Ban on Rupert Murdoch’s interference in Times and Sunday Times ended: Culture secretary Nadine Dorries removes restrictions, potentially paving way for merger of newspapers https://t.co/Ov5Fqj9I16 
  • Balfour and Manson’s Michaela Guthrie gains Law Society medical negligence accreditation | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/53soNAu1mz
  • Britain's human rights watchdog faces a legal challenge to its status over a row about transgender rights. LGBT charities want the UN to revoke the Equality and Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) status as an independent group https://t.co/HUremIawOF
  • ‘Like schoolchildren’ - judge lambasts solicitors’ behaviour in costs row | Law Gazette https://t.co/JBtWXCJl4h 
  • Ex-Cheer star Jerry Harris pleads guilty to child sexual abuse image charges - Harris, a Chicago native, was first arrested in September 2020 on a charge of production of child sexual abuse images #us https://t.co/n4buyKR9vu
  • Eugene F Collins to merge with international law firm Addleshaw Goddard | Irish Legal News https://t.co/nibMDOaQxW 
  • Solicitor Nadhia Ahmad-Ali has been appointed as a non-executive director to the board of Scottish Ballet | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/UTPn7a17PO 
  • Online review site to verify posters' identities | Law Gazette https://t.co/tKKsKQDEsS 
  • The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has identified economic equality, justice, respect and recognition, future-proofing and the public sector duty as its five key priorities for the next three years | Irish Legal News https://t.co/FGy3Sub7WW 
  • The law in Wales requiring people to wear face masks could be scrapped by the end of March, Covid passes for entertainment venues, nightclubs and large events will no longer be needed from 18 February https://t.co/kAl9KwmHV5
  • Cornish hotel ordered to demolish rooms built for G7 summit: Planning inspector says facilities built without permission caused ‘very significant’ harm to landscape https://t.co/V5X1EOjtwm 
  • We cannot take democracy for granted – this government’s failings imperil us all | John Major https://t.co/p7ysRHMion