Saturday

26th February - Law News

Edition 3714: 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: Russia Attacks Ukraine: As Russia-Ukraine crisis escalate, the government began evacuating students in Ukraine as calls to for rescuing the thousands of stranded Indians in the war-torn country grew increasingly desperate.
 
Saturday Conversations on Law
  • KPMG: Fraud cases rise in Scottish courts sparking concern over economic crime | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/daru6tSxI4
  • A #Japanese court has awarded damages to people who were forcibly sterilised under an old eugenics law intended to prevent the births of “inferior children” | Irish Legal News https://t.co/ynmqqsiAtu
  • Litigation funding and marginal gains | Law Gazette https://t.co/QznD2BdpIz
  • High Court: Application for leave to execute 11-year-old judgment against debtor refused | Irish Legal News https://t.co/KYqX5buOcu 
  • Rape cases should be tried in specialist courts, says report https://t.co/QfqsPoI9aw
  • The second day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been accompanied by further false or misleading imagery on social media claiming to be from the conflict https://t.co/e8xKpW5MEF 
  • SRA pleads with Supreme Court to avoid adverse costs orders | Law Gazette https://t.co/s9ttzObqXH
  • Drink driving Bradford solicitor is sanctioned https://t.co/L48Doo2htG
  • Clifford Chance tech lawyer says London law firm should adopt Silicon Valley work culture https://t.co/daUdUlG9ax
  • Ukraine invasion triggers lawyers' fury | Law Gazette https://t.co/7P2bs8wmj
  • A man has pleaded guilty to murdering primary school teacher Sabina Nessa. Koci Selamaj beat and strangled the 28-year-old as she walked through a park in Kidbrooke, south-east London https://t.co/ycwwqtgW5y
  • Russia bans British airlines from its airspace https://t.co/GkR9mX4HSK 
  • Encephalitis: Sussex man's legal action over wife's hospital care https://t.co/bqvlgl6oW
  • Firm 'happy to ignore' costs budget to leave client with shortfall | Law Gazette https://t.co/4EZOYcOAaK
  • Inner House rules chair of Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry Lady Smith acted ultra vires in restricting publication of legal claims | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/2T4eMT71pC
  • Mishcon to help refugee lawyers requalify as solicitors | Law Gazette https://t.co/0KKOVEWeoQ 
  • The 2022 Champions League final will be played in Paris after #Russia was stripped of the match following the nation's invasion of Ukraine https://t.co/tJmBCmfMcT
  • Michael Molineaux obituary - As a lawyer, he was admired and respected for his intelligent and perspicacious mind, and renowned for solving the most complex problems https://t.co/SOmrbf7Jit 
  • Rebuked solicitor did not realise he was breaching signature rule | Law Gazette https://t.co/lF7tk9xh8D 
  • Tycoon’s son sentenced to death in #Pakistan in high-profile rape and murder case: Zahir Jaffer tortured and beheaded Noor Mukadam, in July last year, in case that sparked outrage over violence against women https://t.co/FkSaJdsp4d 
  • The rape and murder of Noor Muqaddam, by a man from the same circle of rich friends, outraged #Pakistan - and it highlighted the shocking levels of violence women there face https://t.co/Yo9uNQzejO
  • Solicitor’s long career ended after asking client for £100 payment | Law Gazette https://t.co/TKNmujUqIZ
  • Three ex-Minneapolis policemen present at the death of George Floyd denied the unarmed black man of his civil rights, a jury has found #US https://t.co/qZ7YwraNlg
  • She caught my hand and asked me 'what wrong did I do?' Justice Indira Banerjee recounts encounter with trafficking survivor | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/dDoVYhFd9C
  • Britons living in EU can’t keep pre-Brexit rights, European court advised https://t.co/NZASuZi6zO
  • 'Lottery lawyer' loses bid to suppress phone evidence, separate trials - Former law firm partner Jason Kurland charged with duping lottery winners out of more than $100 million #US https://t.co/uug0OHgjTa
  • Struck-off solicitor mounted ‘campaign of harassment’ against SDT chief, court hears | Law Gazette https://t.co/DJlVHZzrky 
  • Success for Aidan O’Neil and Fred Mackintosh in Supreme Court extradition case | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/QI5O5C6zTV
  • Woman, 60, wins tribunal case after boss 'fired her for being bad at social media' https://t.co/ffXr8xLyrn 
  • Amnesty: ‘Worst fears’ realised as Russia invades Ukraine | Irish Legal News https://t.co/tKOvgE9Ws0
  • Freshfields latest top firm to boost cash reserves | Law Gazette https://t.co/NGT8Saq7mD
  • BHSM appoints solicitor David Sheehan to construction team | Irish Legal News https://t.co/MjflKO3CwW 
  • Metropolitan Police officer accused of 29 sex crimes found collapsed in Belmarsh prison cell https://t.co/MFs1cUA3sP 
  • The two lead prosecutors of the Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation into the Trump Org resigned Wednesday#US https://t.co/MC9PpIL86l https://t.co/JfDuN305Mc
  • Kyiv furious as EU wavers on banning Russia from Swift payment system: Ukraine foreign minister voices anger as EU leaders likely to decide against blocking #Russia from international payments system https://t.co/AkG95CDPCC