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7th February - Law News

Edition 3695: 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: Protesters in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and in over 20 other cities in Brazil, took to the streets demanding justice for Moise Kabagambe, a Congolese immigrant who was beaten to death, reportedly after asking for pay for two days he'd worked for.
 
Focus of the Day Article: Evolving societal expectations of business and post-pandemic employee requirements are among four emerging risk trends for legal and compliance over the next two years. Full story - New Law Journal 

Saturday Conversations on Law

  • Gauhati High Court upholds Assam Repealing Act that converted State funded Madrassas to Govt schools | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/Bz3VjN2NA
  • Improving victims’ experiences of the justice system: CPS responds to Ministry of Justice Victims’ Bill consultation | The Crown Prosecution Service https://t.co/sbycRqcOtJ 
  • The law firms with the best offices 2022 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/8hVNFXha9Y
  • Amir Locke’s parents vow to get justice for their son killed by police executing no-knock warrant #US https://t.co/0FyCsaJJQ3
  • Is “Perception-Based Recording” for hate crime compatible with freedom of speech? - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/4MV8APsK5
  • Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) candidates attempting to book sittings for the next stage of the assessment (SQE2) had to queue for hours for a limited number of slots when bookings opened this week - Legal Cheek https://t.co/7zyin3hnqt
  • The Weekly Round-Up: Partygate, trans rights and terrorist flags - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/vlgP2LuoE
  • The Corporate Counsel Show: ‘A global trading desk’ of legal services - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/TzD69FAlM
  • Des O' Connor's daughter Kristina is taking legal action after a senior Met officer called her 'amazingly hot' when she reported a crime, the officer kept his job and became a top aide to Cressida Dick https://t.co/hHBeidynY5
  • Trainee solicitor reveals it took her 17 years to secure a training contract - Legal Cheek https://t.co/niGPqssHmm
  • The man serving life for the murder of schoolgirl Millie Dowler has confessed to killing mother and daughter Lin and Megan Russell, a lawyer has said https://t.co/78aEdYWcFy 
  • Gujarat High Court closes contempt case against lawyer who alleged court was biased against a religion | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/NKq0VLU9EI
  • Supreme Court dismisses protestors’ appeal over PKK flag conviction - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/uWv6Ekr7oQ
  • ‘I’ve accepted a TC with a firm which doesn’t cover the area I want to practise’ - Legal Cheek https://t.co/DAHd3Cuhle
  • ‘Mind-blowing tragedy’: deaths of Indian family at US-Canada border put visa sales under scrutiny - #Indians embark on often treacherous journeys to North America through agents who are now the focus of anti-human trafficking officers https://t.co/SXt1QTb0VW
  • Judiciary must accept ‘burdensome personal restrictions’ #Ireland https://t.co/WaA1tweMO2
  • Removing toxicity from a lawyer’s life - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/lwAgNTMHBZ
  • How I passed the first SQE - Legal Cheek https://t.co/MuzQTnMpJ F
  • #US President Biden’s Supreme Court pledge highlights the stain of race and gender bias on America’s judiciary https://t.co/zDj9pIrn5G
  • The Duke of York will give evidence under oath next month as part of the ongoing civil sexual assault case against him. Virginia Giuffre is suing Prince Andrew in the US, and the prince - the Queen's third child - has repeatedly denied the allegations https://t.co/dgHyhJKnsu
  • Insidiously intercepting a trader en-route to the market, buying up his goods, then inflating the price, was once considered to be the most heinous crimes known to law. “Forestalling” became the beginnings of antitrust or competition law - Legal Cheek https://t.co/Wk5NtwhFZg
  • Middlesbrough fan arrested after leaving child to celebrate FA Cup win - 11-year-old boy left in Trafford hotel room while man went drinking after victory against Manchester United https://t.co/lAvQUadcis
  • Bird & Bird ups NQ lawyer pay by £17k - Legal Cheek https://t.co/RIWHwTn1ai
  • Gave up US citizenship because I felt Indian, wanted to work in #India: Sudha Bharadwaj | Bar & Bench https://t.co/SxGwY3A2mJ
  • #Israel's Mossad suspected of high-level Iran killing - In November 2020, a convoy carrying Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's most prominent nuclear scientist, came under fire. He was killed with an artificial intelligence-assisted remote control machine gun https://t.co/5u4Uuyczyn
  • There has been a significant rise in the bail matters before the higher judiciary for the past few decades in #India https://t.co/UF8GgoXV5b 
  • Northampton judge sends police armed with lateral flow test to man suspected of faking positive Covid result https://t.co/aDWs4mWv68
  • BBC barrister is disbarred after forging a judge's signature to dupe 'dirty dossier' author https://t.co/K7urbhgI62