2nd February - Law News

Edition 3690: 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: In the shadow of New York City, one of the world’s richest cities, the people of Mount Vernon, New York face an unpleasant problem inside their homes: sewage. The city’s under-resourced sanitation crew struggles to keep up with complications stemming from its crumbling, 100-year old sewer system — a system strained even further by the extreme rain brought on by climate change. Meanwhile, residents must shoulder the financial, emotional and health burdens when sewage backs up into their basements and homes

 Focus of the Day Article: Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) should be compulsory for claims worth less than £500, the Civil Justice Council (CJC) has said. The CJC said that if claimants refused to mediate, claims should be stayed for a period and then struck out. If defendants refused, costs sanctions could apply. Full story - Legal Futures

 

Saturday Conversations on Law

• The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is to re-examine the case of a man convicted in 2012 of the first murder of a serving police officer in Northern Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement | Irish Legal News https://t.co/dwFjntUdoD
  
• Force small claims into mediation, says CJC | Law Gazette https://t.co/OtF6uYT1Y3
• Dublin barrister and arbitrator Arran Dowling-Hussey has been appointed to the advisory board of the Gujurat International Maritime Arbitration Centre (GIMAC), the first specialised centre of its kind in India | Irish Legal News https://t.co/m7EYdQlUjX
• Police and councils still failing to properly identify and investigate child grooming gangs, a report warns. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse said officials often denied the scale of the issue, thinking incorrectly that it was "on the wane" https://t.co/5Lm7Z0DiG8
  
• Court rejects 'ring of deceit' allegation against top divorce firm | Law Gazette https://t.co/tnpsGpRXLL 
• Women’s groups seek end to UK courts’ powers to jail people for own protection: call to abolish law among coalition’s 10-point plan to tackle inequalities in the criminal justice system https://t.co/c0KpNzomoX
  
• A driver who used his car to try to stop a woman being stabbed by her stalker ex-husband in west London has been released without charge https://t.co/rbYhlsA1Py
• Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood has been further arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and making threats to kill https://t.co/XziBM1MOuL 
• Compulsory ADR needed for smallest claims, says CJC - Legal Futures https://t.co/aDr2pwdFm6 
• Government proposes fixed costs for clinical negligence claims | Law Gazette https://t.co/pmWuwsIaCL
• Knights expands East of England presence with £11.5m deal - Legal Futures https://t.co/JIgc07nc8V
  
• The declining provision of civil legal aid has been a “disaster” for Orkney and risks turning it into a legal aid desert: David Fairnie is the only solicitor in Orkney with a mixed legal aid practice | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/ouRvvNBxCM
• "Injured people will suffer twice" - furious reaction to clin neg fixed costs - Legal Futures https://t.co/sS2jwXSUdA
• Organised crime gangs are illegally burying thousands of tonnes of waste across Scotland. Some of the rubbish is being brought up from the north of England by the gangs, and is believed to include hazardous clinical waste from hospitals https://t.co/r33gYto45C 
• The author Val McDermid has said she will withdraw her support and sponsorship of Raith Rovers football club after it signed David Goodwillie. The striker was ruled to be a rapist and ordered to pay damages in a civil case in 2017 https://t.co/oUwl7ZnJcS
• Judge asks ‘Dr Bitcoin’ to put up hard cash for costs security | Law Gazette https://t.co/RGO5R2749c
• Aboriginal spiritual connection to land no bar to deportation, Morrison government says #Australia https://t.co/j6csSXJYc4 
• Prince Andrew's former assistant could give a sworn statement as part of the the civil sexual assault case against the duke, after a formal request from a New York judge https://t.co/N0BYJhuN2h
  
• Judge excoriates "reckless and quite possibly dishonest" solicitor - Legal Futures https://t.co/AoD2D0yZVF
• The police watchdog says it has found evidence of "disgraceful" bullying, misogyny, discrimination & sexual harassment in some ranks of the Met. The IPCC made 15 recommendations including tackling "underlying cultural issues" https://t.co/hii09KVALr 
• Bar slowly becoming more diverse but 'still more work to be done' | Law Gazette https://t.co/34VGZ1ZAxE 
• The Scottish Prison Service is to publish the results of a review of its transgender prisoner policy later this year | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/1hbPc3pdVj 
• The Solicitors Regulation Authority has told the High Court its intervention into the practice of solicitor Soophia Khan on suspicions of dishonesty was justified because she misappropriated money. | Law Gazette https://t.co/7wBVgiZgmI 
• Accused cannot apply for anticipatory bail once he has appeared before trial court: Karnataka High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/agePzmgEWQ
  
• Almost 70 fee earner roles ‘under review’ after £11.5m acquisition | Law Gazette https://t.co/RnvgIA19KG 
• ‘It’s the tip of the iceberg’: shining a light on the horror of wrongful convictions https://t.co/E7fwB36Upn 
• Police have been granted more time to question Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood who was arrested on suspicion of rape and assault https://t.co/jFcZYHwxwO 
• 1,000 days between rape offence and case completion in UK, data shows https://t.co/oPzM777Zec 
• The Cox’s Bazar Sessions Judge Court on Monday awarded death penalty to two accused and life-term imprisonment to six others, acquitting seven in the case over the murder of retired major Sinha Mohammad Rashed Khan in Cox’s Bazar in July 2020 #Bangladesh https://t.co/4Ldvebc5Ky 
• NHS doctor killed his partner’s father with poison, civil court finds - Judgment came in ruling at family court, which also heard partner and mother nearly died from thallium poisoning https://t.co/OClUoT6jeS 
• A Dutch publishing house has apologised for printing a book which identifies a Jewish person who may have betrayed Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis https://t.co/uqSykODWZv 
• Obituary: Birds Solicitors announces that Martyn Fisher passed away on 14th October 2021 after a period of illness aged 67 | Law Gazette https://t.co/P28Fey8PVU
  
• Lahore court acquits PML-N leader, 15 others in Saaf Pani corruption case #Pakistan https://t.co/wCmL4Rr6ky
  
• Solicitor lambasted by judge over ‘Primark service’ for £100m will | Law Gazette https://t.co/CdnJZtZsxZ 
• #US judge Lisa Wood rejects plea deal between federal prosecutors and two of the three white men convicted of murdering black jogger Ahmaud Arbery: not willing to be bound to the clause that allowed them to serve time in a federal, and not state, prison https://t.co/hDHQHtwJuz 
• The Commons’ European Scrutiny Committee has begun an inquiry into the future of EU law that was copied into the UK statute book to avoid a legal cliff-edge when the country left the block | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/0eNnD27Ew7
  
• The Guardian view on the care-leaving age: teenagers are children too | Editorial https://t.co/eZYnjgDLkR
  
• The National Crime Agency can seize £5.6m from a sophisticated global money laundering scheme: Financial investigators can take the money from the London-based family of Javanshir Feyziyev, an MP in the Azerbaijan parliament https://t.co/n3wFk0G2Cu