Edition 3701: 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 Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan last August created a financial dillemma for nations holding the country's foreign cash reserves.
The deposed Afghan government had $7 billion in the US Federal Reserve Bank in New York.
U.S. President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to split that money and keep it out of the Taliban's hands.
Is this plan fair to the Afghan people?
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Victims of crime don’t understand the role of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and how it makes decisions, the CPS said last week in its response to the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) consultation on a new Victims’ Bill, ‘Delivering justice for victims’ https://t.co/YPr3cyuPKQ
- Law firms have been given guidance from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on creating healthy work environments, after a review highlighted an array of concerns | NLJ https://t.co/VPy0EK3Pf
- Best of the blogs - 11 February 2022 | Law Gazette https://t.co/w9zW76M6BX
- Social media companies will be expected to take proactive action to prevent online abuse happening, rather than simply react once abuse has occurred, under proposed legislation | NLJ https://t.co/gdN1Xl5m9i
- A leading activist who was released from prison in #Egypt last month has told that during his time in detention he saw first-hand a system where torture was used to make people inform on each other https://t.co/J1wfvM1Ka
- Mishcon ordered to clarify privilege claims in ‘potentially tainted’ cash case | Law Gazette https://t.co/jgIK40rRxZ
- Research
into gaps in access to justice across England and Wales has been
commissioned by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) | NLJ https://t.co/KynMXa174j
- 'Messy situation': ground rent reform becomes law | Law Gazette https://t.co/AZ6biC6wyE
- Ryanair has lost its appeal against an order to pay compensation to passengers affected when its pilots went on strike in 2018, in Civil Aviation Authority v Ryanair [2022] EWCA Civ 76 | NLJ https://t.co/QzZ3j9oTlY
- Director banned after firm sued him for £120,000 withdrawals | Law Gazette https://t.co/5na0EusUvW
- The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) in England and Wales has accused justice secretary Dominic Raab of lies against the backdrop of a looming crisis in the criminal courts | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/v2DOXehrtI
- Claimants can be added when proceedings issued but not served – High Court | Law Gazette https://t.co/Swbt1JAI8W
- The government has said will begin a review of prison mental health in the spring, in its response to a Justice Committee report, Mental Health in Prisons | NLJ https://t.co/f4Cvqj3crm
- Duty solicitor data lays bare looming crisis | Law Gazette https://t.co/uHnqMUYFR7
- UK
online shoppers face more identity checks as new anti-fraud rules kick
in: Under changes coming in on 14 March, retailers will have to verify
customer is who they claim to be
https://t.co/b9zeXf3zP1
- Durham police help save woman 3,000 miles away in Canada: Suspect arrested 30 minutes after woman in Durham, Ontario, mistakenly contacts English force https://t.co/4Irnr58fVK
- DfE is ‘criminalising parents’ in England, say families still shielding from Covid: Parents facing prosecution for home schooling say vulnerable children and relatives’ safety comes before school attendance https://t.co/uSyHVG1yGR
- Peers have raised objections to government plans for prospective-only quashing orders and the removal of Cart appeals, during the second reading of the Judicial Review and Courts Bill | NLJ https://t.co/pq7D2nuLMU
- Ministers accused of fuelling conspiracy theorists’ bogus ‘common law’ ideas: Activists handing out ‘writs’ at schools part of trend drawing on non-existent law that was also factor in Keir Starmer incident https://t.co/zT4n6GBZMZ
- Protesters
are still occupying a main crossing at Canada's border with the United
States, despite a court ruling ordering them to leave. The injunction
came into effect at 19:00 local time (midnight GMT) on Friday to end
days of protests https://t.co/JUEMTXvDGc
- 'This is a lie': Criminal bar accuses Raab over legal aid demand | Law Gazette https://t.co/zALzF7ryl6
- Boris Johnson sent Downing Street lockdown party questionnaire by police https://t.co/leFVDcu6XF
