Edition 3737: 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: Dean of Boston University School of Law, Angela Onwuachi-Willig explains what Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to justice on the Supreme Court of the United States means to not only Black women, but all Americans
Focus of the Day Article: Parliament was not given sufficient opportunity to scrutinise and amend emergency pandemic laws, a cross-party committee of MPs has concluded. The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee published its report, ‘Coronavirus Act 2020 two years on’ this week, criticising the ‘take it or leave it’ nature of the sunset clause for six-monthly votes on the Act, where MPs were unable to object to individual elements of the legislation. It criticised the government for issuing guidance which overruled legislation. Full story - New Law Journal
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
- Caste certificate and income certificate are different, can't be treated alike: Karnataka High Court | Bar & Bench #India https://t.co/uWn3huVUC7
- Vinson & Elkins ups NQ lawyer salaries in London to £159,500 - Legal Cheek https://t.co/4XXvSFbaeR
- More law firms exit Russia as Dentons and Bakers keep offices open - Legal Cheek https://t.co/oA3V5wYFQL
- The ‘interesting shift’ in class actions over the last year - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/xH8SW8eiI0
- A woman has been charged with murder after a body was found buried in a garden. The body was found in the garden of a house in Moore Street, Kingsley in Northampton, on Saturday https://t.co/tqna2nCSCa
- Hundreds of protesters have marched through north London in support of a black pupil strip-searched at school after being wrongly suspected of carrying drugs https://t.co/YEn181exzo
- Anonymity: politics, polarisation and the public interest - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/GfB7PW9dss
- 66-year-old Muslim woman moves Supreme Court challenging Karnataka High Court Hijab verdict | Bar & Bench #Indiahttps://www.barandbench.com/news/66-year-old-muslim-woman-moves-supreme-court-challenging-karnataka-high-court-hijab-verdict
- The Corporate Counsel Show: ‘I feel I can bring value’ - Lawyers Weekly https://t.co/jYQ7M6A2zW
- 19-year-old Sabita Thanwani found dead in student accommodation in central London has been identified as police search for a man in connection with her death https://t.co/swmuYGIj05
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have known my solicitor since 1962. Granted at the time he did not know
he was my solicitor because this was in primary one at Paisley Grammar |
Scottish Legal News https://t.co/zm3ZgwgAsD
- Solicitor fined £20k after 'deplorable' sexual comments to paralegal in job interview - Legal Cheek https://t.co/8oNf92ayrT
- Draft legislation allowing legal recognition of electronic trade documents has been published by the Law Commission | NLJ https://t.co/IBR48rzK8i
- 'Can I jump from a fairly standard regional firm to a high ranking City one?' - Legal Cheek https://t.co/tUDVDZxJ4N
- Worshippers at an Ontario, #Canada mosque have confronted and restrained a man who was allegedly wielding an axe and attacked them with bear spray https://t.co/36Ggt7Tbm2
- A British-US national temporarily released from prison in #Iran, is "shattered" to find himself back in jail after 48 hours, his family say https://t.co/uBznKM3rNd
- A call for evidence on ways to tackle fraud has been issued by the House of Lords Committee on the Fraud Act 2006 and Digital Fraud | NLJ https://t.co/jBCyTY5Le2
- Browne Jacobson to ‘kick-start’ careers of aspiring black lawyers with new mentoring programme - Legal Cheek https://t.co/JuUADqXXma
- The Weekly Round-Up: Dirty money, religious education and victory for Everard campaigners - UK Human Rights Blog https://t.co/4Ghx9k2P0T
- ICJ orders Russia to end attack on Ukraine | Scottish Legal News https://t.co/yqbZGjr6lP
- From magic circle lawyer to law school manager - and a spell as a US firm grad recruiter along the way - Legal Cheek https://t.co/ipGpW0IuN8
