Edition 3693: 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: Indian Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's stirring speech in Parliament earlier this week, where he spoke about his idea of India, in it, he spoke about India's federal identity, while that's nothing new but by raising the issue of states having primacy with their own independent identities may seem to suggest that Rahul Gandhi was trying to position the Congress party as a natural ally and representative of state parties. Is Rahul Gandhi's vision of India a challenge to the ultra-rightwing BJP?
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- The National Security and Investment Act gives the government power to intervene in any business transaction Proponents say it is designed to provide businesses and investors with the certainty and transparency they need to do business in the U.K. https://t.co/R9rlEaRS00
- Criminal firm’s administration extended as £5.4m debts revealed | Law Gazette https://t.co/qe1HuHoB1D
- A UK Supreme Court ruling on the rights of leaseholders to manage their buildings is a “really useful and common-sense decision for residential and mixed-use schemes” https://t.co/h9vqV92IuF
- A woman has alleged she was raped during the production of a new BBC TV cooking show. Police said the assault is alleged to have happened in London last September, and they are reviewing the evidence https://t.co/bUzCk717K7
- Government to pilot publicly funded early legal advice - Legal Futures https://t.co/GzVP4AVAoy
- MoD given ultimatum to drop legal action against firm run by billionaire - Ministers have two weeks to accept one-off payment instead of taking over 38,000 military homes from Guy Hands’ Annington https://t.co/ddhWi0NzZQ
- Transgender woman, 23, is executed by her enraged brother in 'honour killing' in Iraqi #Kurdistan https://t.co/zmS2N4LRi
- Disgraced former Labour peer Lord Ahmed of Rotherham has been jailed for five and a half years for sexually abusing two children in the 1970s. He was found guilty in January of a serious sexual assault against a boy and the attempted rape of a young girl https://t.co/Yxy7hvpTcx
- Sustainability – from impact investing to impact supplying - Legal Futures https://t.co/KDhDPr6M3
- SRA moves beyond regulation to research access to justice | Law Gazette https://t.co/kLrgSVMLv6
- SRA outlines concerns over inadequate advice to leaseholders - Legal Futures https://t.co/5EBwlJktMR
- SAS soldiers considered Ben Roberts-Smith ‘arrogant’ and undeserving of Victoria Cross, court told #Australia https://t.co/YwvEe6VGuO
- Wills and probate market tops £2bn with contentious work on the rise - Legal Futures https://t.co/cigL7KFEpn
- Land Registry trials 'quick phone call' to resolve queries | Law Gazette https://t.co/l1s7Mb1Sz3
- Funder fails in claim to recover losses from firm's indemnity insurer - Legal Futures https://t.co/iSCfVRXVab
- A farmer who used a telehandler to pick up a car and dump it in a road to defend his property has been cleared of dangerous driving and criminal damage https://t.co/qwwiHjNOZK
- Convicted attacker may claim negligence - despite dishonesty | Law Gazette https://t.co/MRpQm5tzJN
- Scam ads: why an #Australian billionaire is launching legal action against Facebook https://t.co/Gv2awgkqdy
- A modern slaver whose disabled victim was exploited for 40 years has been given a suspended prison sentence. Peter Swailes' victim was made to work on farms for little pay and slept in a shed, Carlisle Crown Court heard https://t.co/qfdAtpKHto
- National firm scents opportunities in crypto crime | Law Gazette https://t.co/E0HTtL0nkw
- DUP
Minister's halt on Irish Sea border checks will be suspended, the High
Court has ordered. Mr Justice Colton confirmed inspections on goods
entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain must continue pending the
outcome of legal challenges https://t.co/302BzrInoX Feb 04, 2022
- Upper Tribunal rules on ability of councils to impose financial penalties on joint landlords for HMO offences https://t.co/bkxSNvCgoN
- Let juniors conduct more advocacy, Commercial Court says | Law Gazette https://t.co/IPgfnIVbNr
- ‘Very disappointed’: INXS guitarist Tim Farriss loses $1.2m severed-finger case #Australia https://t.co/N03quhCHpC
- Sibghat Kadri obituary - The 1971 Immigration Act was a novel and complex piece of legislation. As a young barrister, Sibghat Kadri argued a number of the early cases on it https://t.co/JZ2cyd4PmP
- Strikes not ‘extraordinary circumstances’ for cancelled flights, CoA rules | Law Gazette https://t.co/LvjL4eifje
- The prime minister and the Home Office have been criticised by the UK statistics watchdog for incorrectly claiming crime has fallen. Speaking in the Commons on Monday, Boris Johnson said crime had come down by 14% since he took office https://t.co/vSsuTQ1OCK
- Magistrate 'accidentally' breached coronavirus restrictions | Law Gazette https://t.co/LRH7ttFzDw
- Legal advice centres could be piloted in hospitals | Law Gazette https://t.co/emmNrrR2zV
- Mishcon accused of ‘turning a blind eye’ to £3m of ‘potentially tainted’ cash | Law Gazette https://t.co/EGMMHHTqhk
- Levelling up? MoJ to move 2,000 jobs out of London | Law Gazette https://t.co/1jxeBXqEhT
- 'Levelling up' to involve upfront information for homebuyers | Law Gazette https://t.co/JyV4XSOe30
- The government should tax motorists based on miles travelled as the use of petrol and diesel vehicles decreases, the Transport Select Committee said https://t.co/2LZt5nDAL
- Amnesty International has denounced #Israeli rule over the Palestinians as a form of apartheid. But the British government is trying to outlaw the Boycott and stop it from using the same tactics that helped liberate South Africa https://t.co/vSiGtP0Ogx
- On fixed costs, the defendant voice is again the only one heard | Law Gazette https://t.co/vv4avzIdnO
- English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson will be quizzed about his finances after he failed to pay legal bills for a libel case he lost. The 39-year-old, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was sued by Jamal Hijazi after defaming him online https://t.co/iZjPsK0m9B
